Any one collect old vices? Show me your vices or collection, also ever seen or used a vice like this?

[davidphilips]

Seen this vice on gumtree, never seen one like it and looks very strange (and pricey) have you ever used one? Wonder what the gear wheels at the front are for? Have a few old vices usually bought cheap over the years and striped and repainted etc, not an avid collector so tbh would not consider buying one at £300 even if it does look great.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I'm sure plenty of us on here, have various 'Vices'...........

 

[davidphilips]

I'm sure plenty of us on here, have various 'Vices'...........

Lol, at a guess the most common vice would be ocd (obsessive cycling disorder)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Lol, at a guess the most common vice would be ocd (obsessive cycling disorder)

Probably

 

[Cycleops]

Obviously built for a specific purpose with the anvil & horn but what that might be I don't know. Would certainly be able to exert a lot of force.
Might be of use to a drug dealer to recover a debt but then he could just drop it on their foot.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Oh I like that and £300 isn't a bad price

 

[classic33]

Seen this vice on gumtree, never seen one like it and looks very strange (and pricey) have you ever used one? Wonder what the gear wheels at the front are for? Have a few old vices usually bought cheap over the years and striped and repainted etc, not an avid collector so tbh would not consider buying one at £300 even if it does look great.
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Stewart Handy Vice

chicago flexible shaft company stewart handy worker - YouTube

 

[gbb]

Given the prices of decent new vices (Record and the like)...i dread to think how much a vice like that would cost new.

 

[numbnuts]

As a Blacksmith I like that

 

[graham bowers]

Stewart Handy Vice

chicago flexible shaft company stewart handy worker - YouTube

Got there just before me - well done!

 

[classic33]

Got there just before me - well done!

Missed the chance of buying one at a liquidation auction, for a lot less than £300.

One here
Antique Stewart Handy Worker Vice (#0435) on Oct 31, 2021 | M.J. Stasak Jr. Auction and Appraisal Service in NJ (liveauctioneers.com)

 

[MontyVeda]

That's a proper nifty little gadget that is

 

[newts]

For me the Fractal vice would be the ultimate vice.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvnizh0XPOA

 

[davidphilips]

Many thanks classic 33 fascinating that, never seen a vice like that before and joey after watching how the vice works i agree now that its not over priced if any thing good value to a collector, actually contacted the seller pity he has not got the handle or any of the other bits that make up the package he has only the item shown.
As gbb said dread to think how much it would cost new and am sure in a window of a shop it would attract a lot of attention and perhaps trade.

 

[classic33]

From farm machinery, like that pictured, to household electric items such as food mixers.
The Sunbeam mixer company.