Big vice

[brightspark]

There's a tad of difference there though. The normal type of 6" vice is a bit of a beast, granted, but that thing is gargantuan in comparison.

Personally I think he'll have a devil of a time selling it for that fact. Besides collector or bragging rights value, how many would ever need something that size these days? Saying that though, I'd have it in a flash if the price was reasonable.

what would u pay for it then and what do u think anyone else would pay for it ??being realistic

 

[brightspark]

A mug. We have common standards to adhere to you know.

theres allways a few mugs about looking

 

[MattF]

what would u pay for it then and what do u think anyone else would pay for it ??being realistic

Personally, it wouldn't be worth a vast amount to me. It would just be for the sake of having it rather than needing or using it. It'd be a novelty/collection piece. Probably 1/5th of what he's currently asking tops, for me.

Regarding what someone else might pay for it, hard to say. I honestly can't think we have any industry which would need something like that these days, so I'm guessing it would again be more down to just someone wanting it rather than needing it. There are some people with deep pockets out there though, and in all honesty, that could well be one of those things one's only likely to see once in this lifetime, so the possibilities are there for it to fetch what he's asking.

If it's still there within a week or two, I'm banking it'll only end up going for somewhere around half the current price.

 

[baconbarm]

IF I needed one that size, id probably go for £300 max.

But like most people, ive never bought one new- theyre normally inherited from dead granddads

 

[brightspark]

IF I needed one that size, id probably go for £300 max.

u have 2 much money some people suffer from auction fever

 

[baconbarm]

u have 2 much money

If I had jobs on that required a vice that size, the cost would probably pale into insignificance

 

[zzr1200]

I'd go to 150 for it, but then it would cost me 60/70 quid in fuel to collect it.....

Then I have to find a couple of road plates laying around for the table top.....

 

[MattF]

I'd go to 150 for it, but then it would cost me 60/70 quid in fuel to collect it.....

This would be one of those rare occasions when I'm actually fairly close to something.

Then I have to find a couple of road plates laying around for the table top.....

A good point you made over the bench. T'would need something quite a bit more substantial than the usual fare. Mine would probably collapse underneath that vice.

 

[Kent]

you know what, you cant do an oversize job with a small vice but you can do a smaller job in a big vice. For that reason I have no criticism other than the price asked and a suitable place to mount it. If it was within easy travel of me I should buy it today even if i didn't need it at that time but no way at his price

 

[PhillipM]

I've a nice bench with 8" legs that would go lovely on, bit pricy mind.

 

[Bill Edwards]

I'd actually quite like to have that.

Nothing to do with showing off or just for my own satisfaction, but for the fact it would be handy at times.

When fabricating bits, working on large assemblies, bending things and so on I often use a vice - that's what they're for.
This vice would allow bigger things to be gripped, and more tightly. I can think of times when I would use it to make life a little easier.

The price is too high in my opinion.

 

[MattF]

Price is pretty high but a new Irwin-Record #25 (aka cheap and nasty made) is ~£400...

Just deviating off topic slightly, points akin to that are one thing I notice we and the likes of the US tend to differ on with regards to older stuff, to quite a degree. Not sure whether it's because we seem to have a glut of things like old vices in relation to population count or what, but across there they do seem to place higher worth on the old vices over the new. Our second hand vice prices are dismally low in comparison to theirs it seems, in general. Conversely though, mention something like using a flypress in a workshop across there and you're practically classed as a loon. They seem to put little value on things like that, especially for non blacksmith related duties.

It's weird how perceptions differ between countries, isn't it.

 

[MattF]

you know what, you cant do an oversize job with a small vice but you can do a smaller job in a big vice. For that reason I have no criticism other than the price asked and a suitable place to mount it. If it was within easy travel of me I should buy it today even if i didn't need it at that time but no way at his price

Space to mount that would probably be the main killer for most of us. If I had that thing here, it would occasionally just get used simply for the fact it consumed so much space. There's no way on earth I'd give up that much space and not see use from it on occasion.

The large/small thing is similar to the advice about lathes. It can reach a point though where something is too big to comfortably work on something small. It's capable but not practical, in some cases.

 

[Kent]

Space to mount that would probably be the main killer for most of us. If I had that thing here, it would occasionally just get used simply for the fact it consumed so much space. There's no way on earth I'd give up that much space and not see use from it on occasion.

The large/small thing is similar to the advice about lathes. It can reach a point though where something is too big to comfortably work on something small. It's capable but not practical, in some cases.

Yes you don't want to turn tiny screws for a model on a big three phase industrial type lathe, I don't think that honestly applies to vices but the space does i 100% should not want one so big in a garden shed say or if I only ever worked on small stuff. I was in a big hydraulics shop today and they had a big one in it their work piece was being attacked with a blooming great big stilson wrench darn near 5ft I bet and then a cheater bar adding a good 4ft extra! couldn't believe it but someone had bent the cheater bar (actually it must have been about five big blokes swinging on it or two with sledge hammers)

 

[Rig Pig]

Wow I thought my Record 114 was big, that's super heavy weight!

 

[MattF]

Before the advert disappears, I'll get in and mention that no, it's not me who's bought it. That vice is now down in Surrey. I'll post a photo of it later which the new owner has taken, showing it against a 34 for scale.

 

[MattF]

This is the photo of it at the new owners. Should be fairly easy to gauge the size of it from the other bits in the photo. I suggested a builders mug for scale, but you know what these Southerners are like with their poncy chinaware. Mugs are just too 'common'.

 

[Monkey Harris]

This is the photo of it at the new owners. Should be fairly easy to gauge the size of it from the other bits in the photo. I suggested a builders mug for scale, but you know what these Southerners are like with their poncy chinaware. Mugs are just too 'common'.

Is that a normal sized knome...

 

[MattF]

Dunno, but it looks like it's having a good nosey.

 

[Screwdriver]

My old Record 36.

That's a standard four inch vice sat on top. Can't believe I collected that monster on a motorcycle with a rucksack!

S.