saved from the steel dumpster

[p_toad]

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.

[forty_caliber]

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

 

.40

[Cal]

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

[Larry Buskirk]

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

[HandyDan]

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

 

Edited August 25, 2023 by HandyDan

[lew]

What Larry said!

[Grandpadave52]

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

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

[steven newman]

MIGHT be a Disston?   maybe a No. 2?

Edited August 25, 2023 by steven newman

[p_toad]

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

[steven newman]

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...

[Larry Buskirk]

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.  

[HARO50]

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!

[Larry Buskirk]

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. 

[p_toad]

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.

[p_toad]

from an online 1911 sargent catalog

[John Morris]

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

[p_toad]

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...

[Grandpadave52]

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.

[p_toad]

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

[p_toad]

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.