Does your Vice, made in Geneva, Ohio have a maker name on it? That town is a couple miles from me. That Vice must be pretty old.
I have my Dad’s Vice I’m trying to figure out what to do with. He was a welder, Ironworker, fabricator too. Is there a market for them like Anvils? It is big and heavy.

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Originally posted by signewt:

If you get to the point of being interested in taking orders for future efforts, please count me in, not as a spurious 'karma' but as an actual cash purchaser.

I will keep you in mind as an officer I work with has given me 15 of these 36”x 1” steel bars and it only takes about 6” to make one.

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Originally posted by Av8nShooter:
That is a very nice gift. I am curious. Do you recall how many hours were involved to create the rake?

I’ll have to look at my log. I keep track of my time spent in my shop working on projects.
But being the first of one item made it certainly will have taken longer than the subsequent ones.
As I probably spend as much time standing and staring at it trying to figure out how I was going to do it given the restrictions inherent to a propane forge vs the coal forge used in the video that provided the inspiration.


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Originally posted by Sigfest:
Does your Vice, made in Geneva, Ohio have a maker name on it? That town is a couple miles from me. That Vice must be pretty old.
I have my Dad’s Vice I’m trying to figure out what to do with. He was a welder, Ironworker, fabricator too. Is there a market for them like Anvils? It is big and heavy.

I finally found the correct mounting base at a junk-tique store . It has the name on it.
I still need to make & install the jaw spring.
This post / leg vise was made in Columbus Ohio by the Columbus Forge & Iron company.
The company that made Trenton anvils.
CF&I was located four blocks from Columbus Anvil & Forge company that made the Arm & Hammer anvils like the one I found & have in my shop.
Both those factories were located where the current German Village is in Columbus next to the river.

Kinda nice to have these local boys 45miles from where they were made & put back to work.
The post vise was a bit of a mess when I got it.
But it cleaned up & has begun acquiring the correct patina.

Handrake?

That looks like something out of Braveheart !!

Very cool.

There are several ways to attach handles to tools, I’m curious how you came about to this design?

It’s a super cool tool!

Nice photography. What else can you do? Just kidding looks nice. Great job.

Very well done!

Awesome, functional, original hand crafted, impressive art ... doesn't look like a forgery at all

Wow, with output like that, you probably have trunks full of points to cash in when you get in trouble.

I've got a couple of 100-year-old pry bars you can have if I ever pass by. Probably made when the age of moving slabs of stone as a building material was more common. The steel seems extra-tough.

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Originally posted by Hobbs:
Awesome, functional, original hand crafted, impressive art ... doesn't look like a forgery at all

That’s an outstanding job, very cool!

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Originally posted by SigJacket:
There are several ways to attach handles to tools, I’m curious how you came about to this design?

It’s a super cool tool!

While out in Amish Country I buy up all the old fasteners I find.
Brass & steel straight / standard slot screws and square nuts.
Most of items I buy to restore are often missing fasteners or have modern fasteners where original ones should be.

I used a pair of these old steel screws after epoxy was applied to the underside then I ground off and evidence of the screw slot.
So epoxy & two mechanical fasteners along the same line as how knife handles are attached , to answer your question.


Pic was taken just after attaching the handle.

You truly are a man of many talents! I always like seeing and hearing about you projects.

 
Great work, as usual. Good to see the Grumpy Forge is back in action.

That's impressive!