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yes - cheap and cheerful, but may be quite useable - says Japanese blades - obviously not the expensive type, but usually good steel if correctly heat treated - try 'em but I shouldn't bother trying to sell 'em or give them to your family or a men's shed or tools for self reliance

great find and good that it's gone to someone who'll use it for a similar purpose. ('upcycling' is better than landfill, but much better to respectfully re-use something like this that took a lot of work, skill, care many years ago) do you have enough carving tools to fill the slots?

the usual caulking irons are heavier things than this - many with an edge including a groove and usually all steel certainly not usually a fine or sharp edge as caulking involves pushing something usually tar and oakum into a groove/slot between planks (or wadding around steam pipes) there's...

yup I reckon not caulking tools could well be small bark spuds, eg used by tanners to get the oak bark full of tannin for leather (I also had a mystery tool here a week or so ago that could have been a barking spud) - there were many different shapes according to size of tree, species and how...

same registered design for all sizes - interestingly they also cast the same reg des no into later and earlier vices of this 'Handy' series of theirs even though the shape of different parts including the main body changed quite visibly - and was meanwhile copied by at least half a dozen other...

know where you're coming from, DW - but I think it would have to be a parallel blade and to my eye this looks like a tapered (??) - cost even more if it had a 'snick' - I have several tapered Wards, some unused, some with cap - but these are not that high priced (mind you, I've not looked for a...

agree, GSP, but even then they're a bit light weight for anchors and might fall apart in a stiiff breeze - a stake onshore and a good rope might do better maybe ground bait for the new Scottish lockdown sport of magnet fishing in canals (seriously) (apparently shopping trolleys are so common...

They're turning chisels - no scale shown but I guess for smaller work from left two roughing or other use gouges, a parting tool and a scraper - what other info needed?

those are beauts especially the anvil oh and the vices - great find and do please finish off the job - we'd really like to see you got responses but I suggest you just mention vices or anvils in your thread title next time as more would pick it up

not a book-binder, so cannot be sure, but was looking at a couple of 'fine bindings' and they have ridges (apparently called bands) on the spine with a line next to them - either highlighted with a gold or black line - this set would cover this for volumes of various numbers of pages ie widths -...

nice vice/vise -- worth getting it going again -- Parkinson invented this type of buttress thread quick release, copied a few years later by Record, Woden, Fortis and others - many parts are interchangeable but not all, and the no 8 means it's a big 'un. oh, sorry just seen yours is a no6 -...

very interesting the handles/size and outline are quite like burnishing tools for silverware (used alone or with jewellers rouge) but those are usually agate or steel tipped and not bevelled like these -- for similar on pewter? bookbinders use many brass tools (sometimes heated before use)...

I suppose a fool and his £8 are easily parted is one answer. If I'd had my camera with me. I might just have paid the seller £4 for modelling fees and left them. The castings are absolute c---p - I don't expect top quality in these cheap new vices but it's not that hard to make a casting better...

could post here or workshop, but here goes -- Lockdown easing, sun's out so off on the long 5 mile treck to Chesterfield flea-market -- just leaving when I spotted these and got all 4 for £8 total. So why oh why do people spend good money on an old Parkinsons or Paramo when for a few...

One piece - partially dry so I could see the shakes (cracks) would only be very small, then deep saw cut around at end of the clear part of trunk/stem that was to be handle, easy to chisel off most then finish with coarse and fine rasp. Treated with used engine oil soak as a preservative, then...

you might just be lucky -- I came across a number of spare Marples blue chip handles some years ago - so they did sell em at one point (sorry, long since gave em away and ps replaced some others with boxwood)

Thanks for the suggestions, all I grow asparagus on my allotment and use a hacksaw blade with a bent end to cut - works well - I've also seen 'pro' asparagus cutters/knives - they get in among the shoots to cut one at a time with a slight sawing action while leaving the neighbour shoots intact...

found this in the scrap metal pile at our allotment site - no-one claimed any knowledge - replaced rotten wood handle with similar (original also like a short T-handle spade handle but a bit thinner) - shaft and tang were very pitted blade somewhat and steeled or smithed front inch or so of...

A great choice of engineering bench vice (or vise in US and Parky lingo) -It's your vice - so choose any colour. However, red was the usual 'as sold' colour - this may age to an attractive darkish maroon, but, judging by some hidden bits of colour on old vices, was probably quite a bright red...

put together a road bike in the late 70s from (literally) scrap heap bits (753 frame by ?Sun of Worksop) - finished up had the bits for 2 similar - bit like a short/flat amateur time trial bike of the 60s (5 gear, drops, Campy, side pulls, brooks) - literally cost me less than £5 for the 2 -...