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It seems we’re missing a vice thread so I’ll start one off. Here’s my new vice (saved from work) in its new shed.

Drugs and Hookers........oh, those vices??

I'm looking for another one, want a swivel one this time and possibly a wood one as well.

I've had my Record one like that pic (4" jaws) for about 35 years and it's still going strong. In fact just used it to hold a F-B footrest while I bent it straight using an old fork stanchion.

The vice is perhaps the most useful thing in the workshop. It's like having a 3rd hand.I occasionally watch the repair shop on TV (some brilliant people but their metalwork bloke is a real tosser) and I'm amazed how often people chase round a workpiece on the bench instead of holding it with a vice or clamps.

I still have this lurking in the back of the (full of furniture) garage:

All you folk with your tidy workbenches! My old journeymen would kick my arse for the state of mine these days.

Record vices rock. I've had this for more than 30 years,but it wasn't new then.

Miami

Hmm, I have rather more than I need.
A fairly big Parkinson's woodworking vice, a Record and a Woden (the Record has a shielded thread so thats the one thats fitted to my bench, two tail vices which are integral to the bench and have bench dog holes so I can clamp large bits of wood on the bench top.
A Fortis and an Ajax cast steel metalwork vices, a Record 74 Auto I like that one) and likely one or two more kicking about under the stairs.

Arty Vice pic!

G.P wrote: Fri Feb 05, 2021 4:29 pm Arty Vice pic!

I used to do that while on ebay and bought shit I didn't remember,then when it arrived I'd take a bottle out to the garage and forget I'd fitted stuff I'd forgotten I'd bought....

Record 5" in the shed, Swindens in the workshop and a Record 4" on threaded base for mounting on the outside workbench. There's others in the boxes of treasure under the bench, a Woden and a pipe vice. A Nippy for the pillar drill, an Abwood for the mill and a curious self centring vice that I need to fix.

I'm not keen on Parkinson vices, too shaky for my taste.

Bit of a sucker for Record vices, probably because I live in their spiritual home, Sheffield. I have a Record 36P bolted to the bench in France and a 35P on the bench in the cellar in Sheffield. The 'P' designation indicates 'Plain'; i.e. not quick release. Seen too many QR vices broken due to hamfistedness. I've also got a number 4 Record in the shed and a number 5 Record in the living room (don't ask). I also have a Record 34 in pieces that I really need to reassemble.

mangocrazy wrote: Sat Feb 13, 2021 11:21 pm... a number 5 Record in the living room (don't ask).

Why do people say that?

Lutin wrote: Sun Feb 14, 2021 9:49 am

mangocrazy wrote: Sat Feb 13, 2021 11:21 pm... a number 5 Record in the living room (don't ask).

Why do people say that?

Don’t ask

I have no vices (the clamping types that is)...

Picked up these from my mums recently. The first is more of an Anvil but has a vice at the back. Its a Harpers 4006 Cobblers anvil with for different shoe last fittings. I got it because i want an anvil. She had it as a decoration many years ago.
[ This is it after a couple of hours with a wet stone trying to remove the dings and flatten the top. Also got a small Woden 186B/00 vice although not sure what I'm going to do with it or where I'm going to put it.

On a semi-related note, I was reading about Fractal Vice the other day, they're quite clever.

Skub wrote: Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:46 pm All you folk with your tidy workbenches! My old journeymen would kick my arse for the state of mine these days.

Record vices rock. I've had this for more than 30 years,but it wasn't new then.

You think thats untidy? I am definitely not showing you my bench.....

KungFooBob wrote: Mon Jul 12, 2021 2:10 pm On a semi-related note, I was reading about Fractal Vice the other day, they're quite clever.

Oddly, I watched this the other day, and thought, I could use one of them.

I keep hearing vices from in my head telling me to buy a Ducati !!!