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TOOLS AND THE SHOP => CARPENTRY HAND TOOLS WE USE => Topic started by: oldnslo on March 20, 2021, 08:58:17 PM

Title: I drug home a Jorgensen wood vise ....AND...yet another claw hammer
Post by: oldnslo on March 20, 2021, 08:58:17 PM
At a local sr community garage sale, I stumbled upon a few finds, and these are pic-worthy. Who could say no to a Proto claw hammer marked $4, but the one next to it was $2, so I suggest I might want a choice of either for $2 and he agreed.

The wood vise will replace my (still yet to be mounted) Wilton version.
Title: Re: I drug home a Jorgensen wood vise ....AND...yet another claw hammer
Post by: DeadNutz on March 21, 2021, 09:28:20 AM
Taking advantage of the seniors I see. :))

You have to wonder how many seniors have moved into senior communities and brought stuff that they will never use again. My neighbor helped a senior friend clean out their house for a move to Sun City in AZ. I bought a nice 5' shipping/receiving or stock rack from the guy which holds my firewood in the garage and with the 6 casters is easy to move around. The guy gave my friend a Jeep CJ5 for all his help.
Title: Re: I drug home a Jorgensen wood vise ....AND...yet another claw hammer
Post by: skfarmer on March 21, 2021, 10:50:55 AM
a proto claw hammer? ya gotta wonder sometimes why  a company known for mechanics tools offers a claw hammer.

probably not a nupla.  my guess would be plumb as the oem.
Title: Re: I drug home a Jorgensen wood vise ....AND...yet another claw hammer
Post by: Rusty on March 21, 2021, 10:56:42 AM
I'm going back to bed. Read the title and had a mental image of a vise that the end loader wouldn't raise enough to get it loaded and him having to back down the road literally drag scraping with the rear heisted up a bit from the weight.   

 :25:  Obviously not enough sleep last night.
Title: Re: I drug home a Jorgensen wood vise ....AND...yet another claw hammer
Post by: jabberwoki on March 21, 2021, 12:02:01 PM
Nice vice, i `ve been telling myself i need one of those fro a while now.

Whats a good brand to look out for?
Title: Re: I drug home a Jorgensen wood vise ....AND...yet another claw hammer
Post by: gtermini on March 21, 2021, 12:29:10 PM
Quote from: jabberwoki on March 21, 2021, 12:02:01 PM
Nice vice, i `ve been telling myself i need one of those fro a while now.

Whats a good brand to look out for?

I bet you'd be a Emmert patternmakers vise kind of guy.
Title: Re: I drug home a Jorgensen wood vise ....AND...yet another claw hammer
Post by: jabberwoki on March 21, 2021, 07:52:23 PM
Sheesh....only if your buying

https://www.ebay.com/itm/303626154426?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=303626154426&targetid=1068323854950&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=1027719&poi=&campaignid=10459842387&mkgroupid=104612011100&rlsatarget=pla-1068323854950&abcId=2146002&merchantid=118918812&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIg76yqdfC7wIVYcqzCh1ougANEAQYASABEgJPOvD_BwE
Title: Re: I drug home a Jorgensen wood vise ....AND...yet another claw hammer
Post by: DeadNutz on March 21, 2021, 10:29:29 PM
That is stupid money for a vise that has been cracked and brazed. No thanks.
Title: Re: I drug home a Jorgensen wood vise ....AND...yet another claw hammer
Post by: slip knot on March 22, 2021, 05:34:26 PM
and not a very good brazing job either.
Title: Re: I drug home a Jorgensen wood vise ....AND...yet another claw hammer
Post by: hickory n Steel on March 24, 2021, 08:46:19 PM
Quote from: skfarmer on March 21, 2021, 10:50:55 AM
a proto claw hammer? ya gotta wonder sometimes why  a company known for mechanics tools offers a claw hammer.

probably not a nupla.  my guess would be plumb as the oem.
It sure looks like an 80'-90's cooper era Plumb to me.