I've been searching and found an old table that the seller claims is an old Blacksmiths table.

Is it just a table or is it a forge? I can see a few holes on the table making me think it is a forge, but I could be wrong.

 

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Cheers

G'day Will,

'tis a leg vice table.

Check out the hole pattern in the top for the 'leaf' shaped mounting bracket and the single hole underneath in the long side of base triangle.

 I wonder if it is an Alldays & Onions product- 'cos they were in Birmingham making diverse forging equipment...

lots of other manufacturers were there as well, of course.

AndrewOC

Cheers mate.

I'd love to have that in my shop!

I think that table is from a kick press. The notch in the front is where the press mounted and the configuration of the legs would allow the foot lever to travel to the back when the operator kicked it. The large surface is where the parts that were being assembled would be placed.

I have several tables like that from my father's factory. I used one to mount a vise to and the other holds a grinder.

Matchless had this one up for sale a while back. I had certainly never seen one before.

 

Matchless had this one up for sale a while back. I had certainly never seen one before.
 
4in English leg vise with rare cast iron stand.jpg

Now that I see it, I guess it is a leg vise stand.

There was an industrial museum mentioned on here that had a vise stand pictured like that also. It was just a few weeks before matchless had the one on ebay.

Matchless had this one up for sale a while back. I had certainly never seen one before.

 

4in English leg vise with rare cast iron stand.jpg

Ooh!.   I gotta make one of those!   I got a leg vise sitting in the corner.   Now I know it's destiny!