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Good day all. I'm new to the forum and come to you in need of help.

I recently acquired this blacksmith anvil and would like to know a bit more about it.

Can any of you confirm the manufacture? I do not see a makers mark anywhere. Vice is 39" long with a 3.5" wide vice.

Does anyone out there have a clue where I might find the missing bench mount part and spring?

Thank you all so very much.

Jim

 

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b vice.jpg

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Strange looking anvil ;) 

but on the post vise, you might be able to make the missing parts. If you put your location in there may be someone around you that could help. I have made replacement parts for vises I have. As far as finding original replacement parts for That vise that's pretty rare. 

Best I have "found" was a bolt down plate for a Colombian in a bucket of scrap I spotted and bought at an auction where the vise was welded to a huge welding table and wasn't worth trying to get as I didn't have tools to cut it free and couldn't haul the whole table. 

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These vises were made by hundreds of small and large manufacturers. If no stamping can be found on it it's just a guess and a rather poor one at that since we don't know where in the world it was found at. I am not familiar with any of the makers in Belgium where Waterloo is for instance.  That looks to be a very elegant example of one though,  how wide are the jaws?

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3 hours ago, arftist said:

I can cofirm it's manufacture...actually the pictures confirm it better

Nice vise.

Have a blacksmith make the missing parts.

You say you can confirm manufacture?

Thank you.

6 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

These vises were made by hundreds of small and large manufacturers. If no stamping can be found on it it's just a guess and a rather poor one at that since we don't know where in the world it was found at. I am not familiar with any of the makers in Belgium where Waterloo is for instance.  That looks to be a very elegant example of one though,  how wide are the jaws?

Location Sacramento CA, my handle waterlooboy205 pertains to one of my passions, hit miss engines..

Thank you.

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It has somewhat the appearance of an English Peter Wright. Sometimes, you may find a numeral stamped on the straight portion of the screw box, when disassembled. That would be a tip that it's a Peter Wright. We suspect that they were inspector's numerals.

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For what it's worth, ... A "spring tooth" harrow is a great "donor" for post vise springs.

Lacking that, new individual replacement teeth for "rock rakes", are readily available.

 

Sure, if you want to make it yourself from a suitable material, and fiddle with getting the temper right, ... you can do that too.

 

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