i'm sure some of you already know what this is...i couldn't believe it when i found it sitting there waiting to be junked.

It must have been a good one......

 

.40

I'm not one of the some Pete, what is it?

Lets see if I'm correct. Vise for sharpening hand saws. 

Agree.  Might be easier viewed this direction.  Nice save and can be handy as a brake for thin metals.

 

Edited August 25, 20232 yr by HandyDan

What Larry said!

Great rescue Pete. Any name, numbers or identifying marks on it?

@steven newman...any guess on the maker? Looks to be fully original.

MIGHT be a Disston?   maybe a No. 2?

Edited August 25, 20232 yr by steven newman

i wish i could tell you more.   i looked it over top to bottom (and yes, i posted it upside down...sorry) and couldn't find a single mark on it anywhere...no numbers, names, etc.

everything seems to work (after a fashion) and i want to clean it up a bit and put it to work with the set i just got (it's safe in a box somewhere).   i'm guessing the party who

put it into the "throw this stuff away" bin had not a clue that it was for holding saws for sharpening and setting

looks a bit like the small one I have?

If the bench is too thick, one can add a stick, and clamp the stick into the bench vise..

This one has 2 locking levers..

Upper one to open the jaws a bit, and then clamp down on a saw's plate..

While the other lever allows things to tilt back a bit..

Saw is 18" long, BTW

There is a No. 3 cast into one of the jaws...

19 hours ago, p_toad said:

(it's safe in a box somewhere)

 

 Sounds like me trying to remember which box and where whatever I'm looking for is after putting it that "Somewhere" I told myself not to forget after having put it away many years ago.  

8 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 

 Sounds like me trying to remember which box and where whatever I'm looking for is after putting it that "Somewhere" I told myself not to forget after having put it away many years ago.  

Don't worry... it'll be in the last box you look in!

13 hours ago, HARO50 said:

Don't worry... it'll be in the last box you look in!

 

 I've got boxes of "Stuff" in five or six locations. 

interesting....i cleaned up the vise a tiny bit and it shows the number '94' and i found this on another site

"ANTIQUE EARLY SARGENT SAW VISE # 94 CLAMP CAST IRON OLD"

with the attached pictures

so, although i don't know age or production years yet, i do know more.

from an online 1911 sargent catalog

Nice find and great research Peter!!!!!!

so, to make this story complete - this is the Stanley 42W saw set which i found at the store...ok, this one cost me a couple of bucks...

Very cool Pete. You have quite a collection of pull chains/ cords, pulls, lamp finials and switch nuts there. I could have used that assortment a few months back.

That just kinda scratches the surface of lamp parts that i have on hand...

just because i was curious....i did a web search for the .65 the saw vise shows costed in the 1911 catalog and that's about $21.00 in today's money.   not too shabby, although i frankly

doubt we could produce one at that price anywhere in the world these days.