matto Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 don't know much about it chas parker 954 1/2 solid base bench vise i don't know how to flip pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluidsteel Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 (edited) Looks pretty good. I have two Chas Parkers, a 956 that is 120# and an 80# 994 swivel. It took me about 4 years to find them for a reasonable price. Found both of mine in the last month. Edited August 5, 2015 by fluidsteel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matto Posted August 5, 2015 Author Share Posted August 5, 2015 i like the one i found. like i said i don't know much about chas parker but it looks very well made and the price was great. need to get it cleaned up and put back into service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluidsteel Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Charles Parker / Parker / Chas. Parker: They are famous for the shape of the jaws on their machinist vises. The jaw shape allows for more complete access to the workpiece being clamped. Some history on the company and Charles Parker himself: "The Meriden Enterprise Center is a large manufacturing plant that is home to over 60 businesses, located in the center of Connecticut.The plant was the former home of companies such as the Charles Parker company, known for the manufacture of the Springfield rifle and the development of one of the early repeating rifles in the mid- nineteenth century. Charles Parker was born in 1809 and rose from poverty to become oneof Connecticut’s leading industrialists. He also became the city of Meriden's first mayor. He started his manufacturing career inventing and producing coffee mills in a small shop in 1832.By 1860, he owned several large factories and employed hundreds of people, in and around Meriden. Parker products included hardware and house wares, flatware, clocks, lamps, piano stools and benches, vises, coffee mills, industrial machinery, and, after 1862, guns. Guns, however, neveramounted to more than 10 percent of Parker’s business. Charles Parker died in 1901 and his descendants carried on his businesses until 1957. The Great Depression of the 1930s took its toll on the Parker enterprise and it never fully recovered. Parker products have now become “collector’s items,” especially the Parker shotguns. The Charles Parker Company sold its gun facility and the rights to the Parker gunto Remington Arms Company in 1934, and Remington continued the Parker shotgun line until World War II.The attraction by collectors to the Parker shotgun comes because of the gun’s inherent quality and beauty.The Parker gun is an American classic". Copied from the Garagejournal.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matto Posted August 6, 2015 Author Share Posted August 6, 2015 now i know something!! who would think to put a gun guy as a vise builder. guess he needed something specific and thought others might to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluidsteel Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 They are great vises. The 6" I bought for holding stakes while raising copper dishes. The 4" will go on my lower bench in the shop to hold a knife vise so that I can swivel the knife vise around to do file work and hand sanding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matto Posted August 6, 2015 Author Share Posted August 6, 2015 i have not thought of where or what use for mine yet but i can't wait to get it cleaned up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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