[TheForge] Vise Prices

[Dann Johnson]

RE: 6 inch leg vices

Bidding on this recent  vise offered on eBAY topped out at $620 for this 
leg vice and it had not reached the reserve.

This one was an 8 inch, 200 pound leg vise, but  one of the guys on the 
thread below  apparently think that they  often go  over $500.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6100536017

http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/archive/get.phtml?message_id=134098&submit_thread=1


I think of the hours that I have spent  rebuilding some  distressed damaged 
leg vises... perhaps they should have been called   "vise kits".     I 
don't think that you will have much trouble selling a "mint" 6 inch vise 
for $150.   Like  quality new anvils,  it  seems to me that new leg 
vices  go $600 plus .

Dann Johnson

At 06:40 PM 6/13/2004 -0500, you wrote:



>schade at acegroup.cc wrote:
>
>>I am a sucker at an auction for a $20 post/leg vise
>>of any size and almost any condition. That's why I have a dozen
>>in various states of repair in my shop and shed.
>
>I am the same.  Graduated from anvil hoarding to post vise hoarding
>
>>I keep thinking
>>that eventually they will all be worth $100+.
>They are all worth $100 plus right now to someone out there, just got to 
>find them.  Seems they all seem to go in that range at a minimum on Ebay, 
>though, so if you really want the money for them....
>
>>Most buyers are hobbyists and want to steal everything.
>
>Have you paid new list price for every tool you ever wanted?    Damn it 
>must be nice.  I have to balance the funds I have available vs my 
>wants/needs and hope for the occasional great buy.    If I was in the 
>business, I could work out a cost benefit analysis.  Being a hobbiest, I 
>just have to determine what I am willing to piss down the drain for my own 
>amusement.   Most often that means biding my time until I find a seller 
>that has no idea what it is  worth, or more often finding a seller that is 
>tired of loading  a heavy chunk of iron on the trailer, unloading it at 
>home, dragging it into a storage room, then dragging it back out again 
>loading it back on the trailer and trying to sell it on another the day 
>with the prospect of repeating the process all over again ......and 
>again.   Often, that is exactly my conversation on the last day of any 
>swap meet. It is amazing how often the seller finds middle ground with 
>me.   As a hobbiest, you can't "steal" it if the buyer isn't willing.
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