Bret, not sure its necessary at this point, but, I very much appreciate the offer. After posting I exercised my Google fu skills and ran across this site which give a pretty good laydown: http://dayid.org/mediawiki/index.php/Reed_Vise

Another question I have is what is a realistic price to pay for these vises. On an earlier post there was a link to the Garage Journal where they are talking about .50 to a buck a pound. Looking at going prices on the Bay etc that seems slightly unrealistic.

Reason Im asking is that a local resale shop has what I believe to be a Reed 106 (non swivel). In addition to the restoration piece, I have a small horse ranch and that 106 would make a great grunge vise for all those ranch jobs that I dont want to take into the shop.