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Can you tell how old a Post vise is?


b4utoo

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only generally, smaller and the more pieces that were forge brazed to make the screwbox usually means older---also the old ones use a tenon on the bracket that goes through a mortise in the  rear leg probably the most telling sign as screwboxes can move from vise to vise but the hole in the back leg will not!

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  • 5 years later...

I just recently purchased a vice that is missing the thrust washer. Would you have one that you would be willing to sell? I am trying to get it restored so i can use it i would love to have a period washer if i can find on my vice looks to be wrought iron. That washer and the spring is all thats missing.  I am going to forge the spring from a piece of an old hare tooth. I just started learning how to become a blacksmith i truly enjoy it and hope to get into it fulltime. Thanks for your time and takecare 

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