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Pack it in one or two flat rate boxes and be done with it.

FWIW, 12 iron (1/4") hard sole leather works fine for vice jaws. Stick it on knurled or plain steel jaws with Barge's cement. Hard enough for metal, soft enough for wood.
Chuck

I've wet-molded heavy leather vise jaws for a few decades for all day use. I have bronze, square steel, heavy cast lead, light sheet lead and aluminum octagon jaws for other application. The leather is soaked, vise jaws closed together then they are tied in place with rope until they dry.
Note the cork-faced one in the background (behind gun barrel) Only used to clamp wood. Brownells sells perfectly sized heavy leather for 4" jaws.

Vises is one of my vises, lot's of good info here..

Garage Journal Vise info thread...


and over 600 pages of pics and Q&A of vises.


I use this for holding stocks, not great but passable.



Versa-Vise copy, handy but not very stable.




Parker hale to bring to the range...




3-1/2" Colombian on the cleaning bench, I use lead shields and hold shotgun barrels by the lug for cleaning.



And soon to move down to the main bench, a 4" Yost with swivel base and a swivel "static" jaw,





unless I get around to restoring one of 2 Parkers hanging around the garage.

Run with the Fox
That seems like a pretty elitist remark.It's not the work that goes into the vise(or other equipment)that counts,rather it is the work that comes out of it.Who among us can start with all top line equipment.
Mike

Nice Vises Rob!
Keep your eyes open for a Wilton, a joy forever�

(That's "hammered blue" Wilton color under my leather jaws)
All my student workstations are now Wilton equipped.

Gentlemen - Let me first thank all of you for all your contributions to this thread. Some hit the mark as far as what I was envisioning and others may not have, but were interesting to read and very worthwhile in their own right.

Secondly, let me apologize for the tardiness of this reply. Life has a funny way of getting your attention in ways you didn't plan for.

Now then. To start with my benches, I need to start with the house. A brick Cape with slate roof built by my father and his brother in the 30's. My uncle was a machinist on his way to owning his own small company, my father a carpenter on his way to civil engineering.

My uncle welded some steel together and used it with a horse to dig the foundation of the cellar. The two benches in the cellar were his. I'll attempt to describe them.

#1. heavy steel frame bolted to the floor, topside measures 6' x 40". it is made of wood "slats", 1 1/4" x 2", all squeezed together and bolted tight.

#2. same deal with the frame. 10' 10" x 30". There are 3 beams, each 8" x 30" running the entire length, even spaced and bolted. Topside: Some kind of wooden bed with wood "slats" 2 1/4" x 30"

Unfortunately, they need to be cleaned off of accumulated junk and organized. Right now I just have little "areas" cleaned away. The smaller benches have 2 presses bolted in, a Rockchucker and a Lee turret. Never used the RCBS, am planning to handload rifle with it. The Lee was used exclusively for handgun cartridges for many years but hasn't been used since oh, I'd say '97 or so.

Anyway I just wanted to answer all the questions about the stability of the bench where the vise will go.

I see I am going to have to add "Yost swivel jaw" to my list of regular e-bay searches. Very cool vise. Never seen one before.

John

Steven

Wiltons all around, I�m envious.

Interesting idea on the leather vise jaws/cap. Is it easy to remove, or are they semi-permanent?

I�ve got leather glued to hickory inserts that I use in my vises, but quite often I will swap them out for aluminum depending on the job.

US made vises are the only way to go; I�ve probably broken half a dozen or so cheap import vises before I got smart.


V/R

Mike

Recoil Rob, your unrestored vise seems to be another Parker, but it's hard to tell how big it is.