Show us your bench vice(s)

Exuptoy · Mar 17, 2026

Farside said:
"Front" - is that reversible to be an expanding vice?

Don’t think so. Never realised the story behind them. They are a cracking vice.

premmington · Mar 17, 2026

Exuptoy said:
Don’t think so. Never realised the story behind them. They are a cracking vice.

Back jaw moves...

I can see one big pitfall with the idea of this vice..

When you mount a vice on a bench - you position the rear jaw slightly forward of the bench edge - so anything long you mount in the vice - can protrude down towards the floor - your only restriction is bench height. However wide the "anything is" as long as it goes in the jaw opening width - this works.

But with a back jaw moving - you could only put long things in "horizontally not vertically".

jack-daniels · Mar 17, 2026

Not sure this really belongs here :ashamed:

Anyway, picked up from Faceache for a fiver. Thought it might come in handy for circuit boards?

badabec · Mar 17, 2026

Oh no, thread drift, about to be locked.

It's a vice. Is it completely free standing?

Exuptoy · Mar 17, 2026

premmington said:
Back jaw moves...

I can see one big pitfall with the idea of this vice..

When you mount a vice on a bench - you position the rear jaw slightly forward of the bench edge - so anything long you mount in the vice - can protrude down towards the floor - your only restriction is bench height. However wide the "anything is" as long as it goes in the jaw opening width - this works.

But with a back jaw moving - you could only put long things in "horizontally not vertically".

Take a look again, the back jaw body is bolted through the swivel and down to my bench (not fixed in the pic above…) It operates as per the standard Record type vice.

ranger08 · Mar 18, 2026

Seadog said:
Cam anyone identify this vice?
My neighbour found it in a shed in the property they've just bought in Wells.
There's no maker's name, just No.1 cast in.

thinking early parkinson, they either had a "0" or "1" stamped, however there were quite a few copies from other companies in the 1880s to 1900, yours looks abit later say 1900 to 1915 as there is no embellishment on the slide, just my guess