Leg Vise Restoration

[@BlackBeardProjects]

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[@OleksandrDiedov]

Hi! Thanks you! Keep up your great craftsmanship!

[@tomsdreamshopworx]

I would rather you made more videos then answer all the comments. You put a lot of sweat equity into that vise. That was a lot of rust. Hope it serves you well.

[@Underscore23]

Joined and thew some bucks into the Patreon hat. I love seeing new life brought to old tools. Keep up the good stuff man!

[@BlackBeardProjects]

Thanks man!!

[@justinevomail]

You make quality videos and the variance is nice in them. The only constant is you do good work in all of them. Thank you for taking the time to make them.

[@robinholbrook6576]

Oh MAN! I’m a 75 year old Gramma and I want to do that! It’s just so beautiful to take something and restore it! I LOVE IT! I have restored old floor lamps replacing the silk covered wires for newer. An old pie safe with rusted punched tin is now a treasure: NOT refinished but restored. Anyway, loved watching this! 👍🏼👍🏼

[@I_Eat_Lemons]

When you jumped on top of it I said "What the...?" But then I realized it was an example of the strength of it. Needless to say, you never cease to amaze.

[@charlpohlmann4237]

Absolutely unbelievable that anybody allowed a greate piece of machinary like that to rust away like it did. Well done for rescuing it.

[@domenicofabiotoscano4008]

A saperlo prima che fossi italiano ti avrei seguito sin da subito!! Complimenti per ogni lavoro di "ristrutturazione" che hai eseguito, esemplare!!

[@haroldcoots8433]

At 7:19 when you held the vise up to the stand, I thought "surely he isn't going to weld it to the stand". Quite relieved when you put the bracket on and the bolts. Good Job.

[@swisscheese13wyles11]

I think people should watch these videos. Because, it informs them and helps them know how to get rust off objects like this.

[@LilybetMells]

I like the fact you don't over restore, just enough to keep it honest. Great work!!!

[@darichards1]

I have my fathers old one, it came from a Railway siding shed that was being pulled down, remember seeing my dad straighten a motorcycle frame with it after an accident, bit bigger than the one shown here, but you've given me a hunger to restore it now it too rusted out in an old garden shed that had a leak !

[@shit85head]

While watching the tear down and rust removal I was thinking this things not worth saving but then you made it look beautiful and that stand works great for it.

[@kathylecluyse7820]

Wow. It takes an expert eye to see the beautiful, functional tool hiding in a heap of rust - and expert hands to restore that heap of rust to the beautiful tool like you did!

[@kevinforth7618]

Nice work. I love seeing old things being reconditioned and put back to good use, not just used as a decoration. Well done.

[@mray1255]

Great work. Thanks for putting in all the hidden time editing the videos. And thanks for keeping the tools restored, but not made flawless new.

[@yoncorikami8215]

Glad to see someone who can see the better side of an old tool and bring it back much love man great work

[@randyporter3491]

Every time I watch one of these, I laugh my butt off at the fast hammer hits. I guess I have a warped sense of humor, but I love that in every video. I would like to simply hear the sounds of the shop and not some filler music. It’s not needed, the video is great as it is.

[@02161962ANDRE]

Мужик, ты просто молодец!!!! Привет из России. Всегда приятно реставрировать старые вещи, особенно из металла! БРАВО !!!!

[@shedmanx3640]

Beautiful job. I love seeing these old blacksmith vice getting a new lease on life. They occasionally come up for sale here in Australia but are usually expensive and in much worse condition than yours was. Great job. Thanks 🙏.

[@Josh-kk8fd]

Thank you for not using that weird techno type music most people play on videos like this. Also great job

[@fabiandaroca]

Every video you make in which I like, they just keep getting better....

[@willwyatt7023]

Fabulous restoration. I own a leg vise that my great-grandfather had on his farm. It's not quite in as bad a shape as this one you did. I think I need to get on it. Thanks

[@andrewdavis6917]

This has become one of my favorite channels, the projects are all very fun to see. The production of the content is superb, thanks for doing things so tastefully without bizarre distractions. Hi from TX

[@ПавелАндрющенко-ш5п]

Ролик класс, как раз в тему. Мне подарили почти такие тисы, я не знал что с ними делать. Теперь буду реставрировать. Спасибо за ролик!

[@sovetitykbaev7538]

Павел Андрющенко У меня тоже дедовскии остался, хочу тоже реставривать.

[@sethbracken]

That black finish from the rust converter looks really good.

[@TC-bq5ri]

Too many thumbs down with no explanation! Should be a law that there should be a reason for thumbs down on KZbin! Great Job Sir! That vise looks AWSOME!

[@ToastTheThird]

These vids seem like the perfect comfy vids to watch on a rainy day. Maybe it's the music choice, maybe it's the anticipation of seeing the finished product, I dunno but I like it. Consider me a subscriber.

[@419ma-chyan2]

I stared at the beginning from the beginning. It is a wonderful movie. Please do your best in future. With love from Japan

[@archbishop8719]

I love watching your restoration projects. I think you are playing on our "millennial" instant gratification! Thanks man!

[@me-cq7wv]

Always learn good things from your videos. Thing that can make life easier when restoring old stuff. Thanks

[@barryhunt5357]

That turned out Great , I have just bought my first 4 tools to restore , I love the older well built tools . Great Channel !!!!!!

[@Freeman361]

Your leg vise restoration is outstanding, Sir. Peace.

[@Knallbart]

This is ridiculously satisfying to watch. I like the calm and not over the top music you have in the background, too 😊😊

[@cybiin-o3u]

I love how that spring looks. Aesthetic.

[@BigRonxxxx]

That's one serious little tool stand,thanks for sharing it with everyone,all the best

[@dwightschrute4560]

I have a leg vice someone gave me. Thankfully this answered all my questions about getting it in working condition.

[@williambarnhartblacksmith414]

That's a nice little leg vice. It actually has a spring in it! Not many of them still do unless they're currently being used. Mine has 6.5" jaws and is probably 120lbs or so. It's an older one and I know since it had an old style nut area with the coiled and sautered steel. It has no markings that I know of either. If I ever take the paint off that I put on it I will have to see. We for it for $50 at a scrap yard!

[@ladyj2552]

Love the video! No music, just sounds of the tools being used.

[@georgedennison3338]

So, THAT's what those are called! I found one under the front porch of an old house I living in, back in the late 1980's, and have wondered what they are called. Mine has a longer 'arm' on it, right where the chunk of angle iron is, on yours. It's a finished piece of steel, with a flattened end, and holes drilled in it for mounting to something.

[@garyronan5568]

George Dennison Traditionally they are mounted to A large hardwood stump. You can then position them around your forge depending on what you are working on. Mine is mounted on A plate projecting off of an I-beam that is supporting the mezzanine in my pole building. Less handy than A semi-portable mount but it works.

[@georgedennison3338]

Thanks for the info. So, are they primarily a smithing vise? Along with the vise, I found a bunch of patterns for sheet metal ducting, (adapters from one size to another, and fittings), and a round wooden screen of some sort and some other olumbing related stuff. I figured it was more of a plumbing vise, mounted on a vehicle, (either gas or horse powered). GeoD

[@jandastroy]

That's going to be a super useful tool! Great reuse of things all around. The tire base for the stand seems to make it "easy" enough to roll around

[@skyhound4373]

Why do I watch these videos over and over? So satisfying. Great work! Please find some more rusty stuff to restore (although im sure your already on it)!!!

[@HandToolRescue]

Very nice!

[@BlackBeardProjects]

Thank you sir! :)

[@dominicdelprincipe2583]

There's always got to be a critic saying: "No! Wrong! I Can't Believe This! So so SO Wrong!" Fortunately, these throwaway, off-the-cuff 'criticisms' have no bearing on the wonderful work you've done. Thank you for sharing it with us! I really like the 'trash to treasure' thing. All the best, and I'm looking forward to seeing future projects. Cheers!

[@sethbracken]

Philbert Desanex your videos that you made are pretty good

[@marcosferreras7772]

Hello, do you have some information of the Styles of this kind of vises?

[@rugby224477]

Its channels like yours that inspire me to get into this world of restoration. Thanx for such good content, cheers!

[@VeradonaRestoration]

Wow, excelent job !

[@hwm0077]

I enjoy seeing these kind of videos, I love it when old items are restored and used again!!

[@themarblers4399]

What a beauty! Old and beautiful meets the new. Awesome!

[@mrcohen1799]

Next time no music...Just the sounds of your working is all the satisfaction we want

[@gfontesrey]

Muy buen trabajo te felicito y me gusto la base. Tengo unas dudas que producto es ese blanco que pasas y despues el otro . Muchas gracias

[@Yiokalai]

Hallo my friend.What is that white liqued you put at 6:00 on the metal? Many hallo from Greece.

[@bluestarindustrialarts7712]

I was looking for months for a post leg vice. They are getting hard to find these days. My father in law, a die hard junker-antiquer called me one day and said I have a present for you...... video of it on my channel. Good job as always Black Beard. Use it well!!!!

[@imsteamer21]

how many do you want - i have at least six

[@imsteamer21]

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[@oddjobkia]

Nice homage there to 'antique tool restoration' very much enjoyed

[@TheRealSmithFamily]

Looks like a bead breaker for wheels/tires. Well done!

[@luishermidas2801]

Es muy importante recuperar nuestra historia y ver la calidad de las herramientas que tanto dieron en décadas de trabajo honorable ,lo felicito 👌

[@brendanshorter5550]

Hey mate for suture reference just dump the whole thing in a vat of molasses broken down 50:50 with water for a week, saves all the scrubbing.

[@eccentricdetectorists9754]

Wow that was alot of grinding. Shocked you didn't just sandblast... Thank you for saving a awesome tool and antique!!!

[@R3ALFUSION]

His workmanship gets better, just watch some of his newer videos

[@booper343]

A lot of hard work with a beautiful result

[@bigredc222]

It looks like that thing sat in a field for 30 or more years, good job, the base is nice too.

[@gayle525]

Great job, especially fixing those threads. Beautiful stand too.

[@foxdevilswild4641]

Giving old tools a New Life! I Love it! Never give Up dude! Greets from germany

[@mauriciowilson8829]

¡¡Excelente...!! --- Ésa prensa es magnífica para realizar trabajos en piezas difíciles de sujetar. (Y muy buena música de fondo)

[@drstrangefart]

I find a LOT of joy doing antique tool restorations. And I also do a good bit of blacksmithing and need a leg vise so I'm kind of obsessed with them right now. This was a perfect video for me and yours turned out absolutely magnificent. I think this video may have been fraudulent, you didn't use it to shave half of your leg bald with it when it was finished. But seriously that is a beautiful vise and you got awesome results with it. I'm gonna put video of my restoration of an antique machinists vise on my channel as soon as I get to work on it. I just have to wait a few more days to buy parts for my belt grinder's unused arbor.

[@swiftlee8162]

You could make the tool stand like a moving trolley. Tilt it and move it outside on wheels. Great videos!

[@diegoavila5664]

Excellent Job...very good stand it's a pleasure to watch your videos...keep it up!!!

[@restoreandmake]

Absolutely brilliant, your work is a great inspiration for my own videos😊👍

[@janlambrechts7723]

nice job done , first time i have seen a vice like this one .

[@jonathanmiddleton5261]

Man that’s fantastic. I really enjoy watching your videos.

[@daphnesullivan5535]

Am I the only one who just sits here and binge watches all of these lmao

[@bhopale1]

Gosh, how many times I've watched still wants to watch again.

[@efuller6770]

I appreciate the void. need to refurbish my grandad's grandad's post vice after grandad's garage burnt down. this at least gives me an idea what it should look like. not sure what was in it or on it for the fire but threads no longer seem to have any effect and it can be pulled back and forth just by hand. Didn't have heart to throw it in the scrap bins though.

[@efuller6770]

V I D ... not void... stupid auto correct

[@koen_bakker]

9:10 damn you put some pressure on the vise in the background 😆🛠️

[@QueenCityHistory]

Beautiful job!! I love seeing old tools being reused

[@dadegroot]

Interesting vice. I haven't seen one with a welded on spring before. Most have the spring inserted under the mounting collar.

[@nadiabentuler9746]

Love how you decided to not paint this, thus showing respect for the wabi-sabi of the object ;) I keep wondering this though: some of these restaurations start with a electrolytic bath. Others, like yours, go straight for the brushes. What are the advantages of either approach ?

[@misteryman5109]

Bravo! Really nice job. The rust converter was brilliant!

[@katar0t0]

Looks like you using Vactan as rust converter? Absolutely great stuff.

[@mantaship]

Ach! Those threads. They had to have been a labor of love... anything less would make you give up or swear a blue streak.

[@rick-hm3ji]

I like it when restored tools are polished and painted. But I also like the more "natural"/raw approach you used here with just rust converter and grease. How has the finish held up over the past year?

[@burnbarrelnetwork4013]

Awesome video. Found a huge one in a barn on a property I purchased and think I’m gonna restore it.

[@bluedragon0123]

I appreciate the addition of the music in this video.

[@bogomir67]

I also like that rust converter stuff. The brand I use looks similar, but is a little more liquid. Works great! I hope do find it in a Spray form to get a more even coat.

[@YuraKvadrat132]

Excellent restoration. Good grip. Powerful.

[@tageintagaus7576]

what are they for pastes? the wite and then the other? Thanks for the video!

[@antoniotango9218]

Que gran trabajo, acabo de seguirlo me imagino que tiene muchos vídeos interesantes FELICIDADES !!! Saludos desde Bolivia.

[@ElwoodBluesAK]

This's just my personal opinion, Without music is better, great video though!

[@guilhemane]

How would you do this sort of restoration on a water pump attached to pipes underground? The pump is gorgeous but old, and I can't take it off the pipes...

[@dataluskazan4006]

You did a very vice job on the vice and I absolutely Love the stand

[@fatboysfabricationsandweld2514]

Looks good, was wondering what you were gonna mount on that...

[@chucktimm9803]

these vise worth any money i had one that was pretty much mint how old are these type

[@defender_of_wonder]

Brilliant craftsmanship!👍🏻❤️😊🛠

[@dsloop3907]

You don't need music in your videos. Your work is great without music.

[@fellovercliff4525]

That poor vice must have had a damn hard life lol. Restoration come up nice.

[@wolfenstien13]

I wish you painted it, gold would had been a beautiful color to go with the blue stand. Good work.

[@InSanCen]

What mains outlet is that at the beginning of the video? That's a new one to me. Offset parallel blades, most unusual.

[@Chr.U.Cas1622]

Very well done, especially the stand!

[@AlexLee-dc2vb]

Last vice I restored also had some clogged up threads. Didn’t bother chiseling out the debris, seemed easier to just go at it with a needle-file, which ended up working fine.

[@andrejshamin1452]

О, ударные тиски ещё востребованы, браво мастеру

[@ShowCat1]

I can't thank you enough for the high quality video, audio, and the classy music. Most YT videos use ear-raping tripe called music and I have to turn the volume all the way down. Usually I will just click away to something else. This is the best video of its type I have ever seen. Hope your style catches on. I thoroughly enjoyed the restore. Thanks and thanks again. I am now a subscriber.

[@paulbrady701]

Great job and the music excellent choice, another tool saved from yesteryear. A pleasure to watch and listen. Thank you.👍🏻

[@mohabatkhanmalak1161]

Very beautifully restored.

[@drewsmithson6665]

No music. The standard sound of work is soothing enough. Why didn't you electrolysis the piece first to help loosen the rust, then add converter, then paint? If it's going to be outside I'd want the 'full monty' as it were.

[@jayfromtexas6718]

Way to go man! Looks great!

[@aserta]

FYI, if a worn thread on one of these doesn't engage anymore because it's chewed up to bits, deepening the threads with a grinder, then wrapping concrete form wire a few turns around it with some paper as spacing will then allow you to weld a new nut. Not as strong as the original, but good enough for most work.