Vise Stand

Manual Mac said:
Thanks for the compliment on my anvil.
At the time I owned a 100lb Peter Wright, & copied that shape, a London pattern I believe.
That is some anvil & base you have there. Whoa……
i’ve never seen a 500#, a place I worked had a 250# Peter Wright, what a brute.
I know What you mean about the *RING*, I try to work on the middle of the face, anywhere near the heel is earplug territory.
I see that you (like me and many others on this forum) are a True Believer when it comes to working with steel.
my career was with huge logging, construction & mining equipment & machines.
since retirement I now mostly build small steam engines on my smaller lathe & mill, although I still build implements & repair on mine & neighbors tractors.
And I’m learning a lot since I started on small engine casting kits, helps to give those ”Little grey Cells” a workout.
I’ll PM you more photos of the anvil when I can lift things again.
Unfortunatetly I had mishap a couple months ago with a barn roof, a ladder & some very poor judgement. So it goes….
it maybe a while.
Cheers
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Sorry to hear about the mishap. I hope your rehab continues on course! Yes, that's a London pattern and you did an amazing job of recreating it! I have practiced law for 29 years and have never had time to get into this hobby till about 4-5 years ago, but blacksmithing captivated me in elementary school and never left me. Once I got introduced to my mentor, all of this other stuff just took off for me and now I feel like a kid in a candy store but the candy is crazy expensive! I've been fortunate to find some fantastic deals on equipment and not great deals on other new stuff, but I absolutely love it and am looking to turn the hobby into a semi-retirement from my day job sooner rather than later. Of course, with one kid in college and one still in high school, I don't know that retirement is coming any time soon but I can sure as heck get better positioned for it!
 
Here is the (mostly) finished stand. We have a couple of rain days that have prevented me from doing any more painting, but with Rustoleum you definitely need to wait at least 24-72 hours (in my experience) from the initial painting to add touch up coats. Otherwise, you end up with bubbled paint as it seems to take a bit longer to harden than Krylon or others. I love the eventual finish of rustoleum, though, and am willing to put up with the time delays in getting it finished right. I will likely hit this in a few areas with another coat in a day or two, but I think it looks pretty good and will fit in my theme of yellow on everything I build or restore (mostly, anyway!) to go along with the various shop carts, tool chests, and my Emax compressor (which started the whole yellow theme because it looked so good in my gray metal shop when I first brought it in!

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Sweet looking vise and stand. I like the yellow paint. Again nice work and thanks for posting.
 
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