Very pretty indeed
@Jim! I'll bet that vise is perfection itself.
Also, may I suggest that you check out the YouTube channel,
My Mechanics - he has done several vise restorations, and when he finishes a project, the thing is something you'd put on your coffee table with pride.
He really does seem to like vises - but he does all sorts of other things, from small hand tools (wrenches, screwdrivers, etc), to a fairly large air compressor. Here is an example of one of his vise projects....
...and here is another vise restoration....
The
My Mechanics guy is Swiss, and he virtually never speaks, and you never ever see his face - but his videography is really good, there is no stupid country music, kids, or dumb wife yelling in the background, police sirens, or @ssholes on Harleys roaring past. Instead, his quiet, but fascinating videos are comprised of an endless array of beautiful tools and chemicals that he uses for his restorations. This guy could take a chunk of dogsh!t and make it look as nice as a piece of Spode china.
He can forge, machine, weld, paint, sand, do bodywork..... I mean, he fabricates his own locknuts from bar stock.....FFS.
Oh - and on a vehicular theme, he has a whole series on his restoration of a Datsun 240Z - and it is well worth the time. I don't mean that he does a nice job on the body and pressure washes the engine and engine bay - he literally replaces all of the soundproofing insulation, re-does a lot of spotwelds on the underbody structure, and he totally sorts out the famous "oilcanning" problem that plagued all early Datsun Z-car rear decklids. NOBODY has ever restored a relatively cheap old 1970s car to this standard. It is going to be MUCH better than it was when Datsun built it.
The other thing you'll notice is (very much like
@Jim), his workshop is pristine clean - no pile of wrenches overflowing off the workbench, no cluster of random screwdrivers cluttering up every horizontal surface in his workshop - just clean, serene, and perfectly organized.
If he ever took on a motorcycle, I'd pay good money to watch that! Talk about a rabbit hole.....
Pete
