View Full Version : Emmert K-1 Vise, $50 Gloat
Rich Riddle
11-30-2013, 9:03 AM
Saw an ad for an old vise for $50 and wanted to purchase something on Black Friday that was shop related. Went there and found an fully functioning and in-tact Emmert K-1 U3 Series vise. Didn't even know much about it, but looked worth $50 so purchased it. A member here generously offered to double the investment.
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Walter Plummer
11-30-2013, 9:08 AM
Congratulations. Totally justifies a "you suck". I have a turtle back Emmert. Great vices.
Larry Fox
11-30-2013, 9:32 AM
+1 on "you suck". I have one on my bench and it is a great vice. I paid about 8x what you did and mine didnt have the bench bracket. nice score.
Steve Rozmiarek
11-30-2013, 10:59 AM
That is a nice score!
Rich Riddle
11-30-2013, 12:09 PM
+1 on "you suck". I have one on my bench and it is a great vice. I paid about 8x what you did and mine didn't have the bench bracket. nice score.What part is the bench bracket?
Todd Burch
11-30-2013, 12:24 PM
You SUCK!!!
Michael Kellough
11-30-2013, 4:45 PM
Just in case you might be feeling a little buyer's remorse, here is a listing for an older Emmert vise.
Rich Riddle
11-30-2013, 7:02 PM
Just in case you might be feeling a little buyer's remorse, here is a listing for an older Emmert vise.
Well that is certainly an eye opening revelation. Are the turtle versions of the vise more desirable or something like that?
Steve Rozmiarek
11-30-2013, 7:12 PM
Rich, I looked fr one for a while, and the turtle back ones were a little higher at the time. I think the Craigslist listed one is overpriced, your's was obviously about 10x low.
Ryan Mooney
11-30-2013, 9:41 PM
Wow you definitely suck at that price! That's basically a lifetime find!!
Mel Fulks
11-30-2013, 11:33 PM
Back in the 1980s one of the pattern supply houses was selling some vises for $ 1200. Don't know the brand or whether they were new or old stock. And a few years back some company was selling a small knock off for two or three hundred. Mine is one of the few things I have that I can never use without being impressed.
Malcolm Schweizer
12-01-2013, 3:53 AM
+1,000,000 on the "you suck." :-)
That's a great find. I have always wanted one. I can hardly blame you for the gloat. Seems I am stuck with my Chinese workbench vise that racks terribly.
Jim Matthews
12-01-2013, 8:57 AM
$50?
I paid $350 for mine, with a brazed repair and consider that a bargain.
Never, ever sell yours. It's an amazingly useful vise and the modern copies pale by comparison.
I hope all your teeth fall out, but one - so you can still have a toothache.
(Yiddish for "You Suck")
Rich Riddle
12-01-2013, 12:42 PM
$50?
I paid $350 for mine, with a brazed repair and consider that a bargain.
Never, ever sell yours. It's an amazingly useful vise and the modern copies pale by comparison.
I hope all your teeth fall out, but one - so you can still have a toothache.
(Yiddish for "You Suck")
Not even to the SMC member who generously offered to immediately double the investment at $100?
Mel Fulks
12-01-2013, 1:07 PM
Rich, please understand that with the cost of the 'copter that was a very fair offer!
ken lewellyn
12-02-2013, 9:51 AM
Great find! And WHAT a price! I gave $150 for mine and it had been brazed once and needed an additional part brazed, plus needed completely restored. But what a vice! I use it all the time and find it to be one of the best things in the shop as far as usefulness is concerned. I lined my jaws with some 1/4" leather and that really helped with grip so I don't have to tighten the jaws so tight and stress things.
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Rich Riddle
12-02-2013, 4:22 PM
Great find! And WHAT a price! I gave $150 for mine and it had been brazed once and needed an additional part brazed, plus needed completely restored. But what a vice! I use it all the time and find it to be one of the best things in the shop as far as usefulness is concerned. I lined my jaws with some 1/4" leather and that really helped with grip so I don't have to tighten the jaws so tight and stress things.
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Is the leather glued to wood?
Mel Fulks
12-02-2013, 7:25 PM
I've seen them with leather but because of size of the jaws and the adjustment to align , or shift OUT of parallel , I don't think they are really necessary . Rich one thing that is usually missing is the swivel plate that allows vise to grip something tapered in two directions . If you don't have it and decide you need it ,somebody is making and selling new ones.
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