Restoration of the leg vise for the blacksmith| Lucia’s Workshop. 

It's hard not to be in love with this workshop genius.

Great channel, great video. Thank you

i love my leg vices, they are amazing to work with even outside of the forge

I have one just like it. You may want to reconsider giving it away. Hands-free helper. Super handy in your application.

Beautiful 😍 restoration ❤

Très belle restauration, joli travail bravo à bientôt salut Jeannot 🛠😉

Awesome video.

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What a beautiful work of art 😍

Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing. Great job! Love the channel. Top-notch work.

great. You go girl! love from a women that is not so handy wit metal, but real women are proud of real women! and real man!💃

Nice, love the Patina..

Well done, Lucia!

Wow, thats an old one, probably 19th Century. A nice restauration dear Lucia !!

Great restoration, will last another century now, well done

My father has that same vice in his machine shop, it is attached to the side of a 55 gallon barrel here in the USA. I'd say 1930s

nice work. For me, I got lazy in my older years: I probably would have pessure washed it hot, degrease, and let acid or electrolyse do the work. Afterwards milling the vicegrips true, so that is usable again. straighten the handle with a torch and only charge the metric bolts bach to spec if possible. repairs with welding I agree 100%! to finnish: Blueing, and cover with hot old motoroil. the carbon gives a nice finnish. As those vices mostly stay outside, the polish would be not neccesary imo. But this would be MY aproach. After all, a nice recovery for the old Vice! Well done

...a "Lucia" manufactured sandblasting unit would be of great benefit in your workshop....

My Grandfather had a vice like that too. I have had it since his passing, and plan to restore it after I finish restoring his WWII era U.S. Army Potbelly stove.

Great Job. Good Loock

Welcome back! We missed you! Once again, wonderful job!

That's the way to do it. Very nicely well done!

Great restoration, the vice looks nice and rustic not over done

Brilliant! I have an old vice almost identical to this one that I pulled apart, to restore, around ten years ago. This video has given me the kick in the pants I need to get back to it and finish what I started. Thanks

Amazing

Lucia--great work on your restorations (I've watched two so far). I think it's a scream that you do such a good job AND keep your fingernails perfectly manicured 🤣. Your shop is super clean as well. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing with us!

I always found a hint to its age is the lack of welding. If its rivets and bolts she's old! I have a couple post vice, they are great. Amazing clamp power.

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Nice job and nice finish, personally I would leave it as it is, looks great. You need to find yourself and anvil, then you'll have the set.

Great to see you again, as always, a fantastic job 👍😉

Nice Job! 👍 I would leave it clean without paint i trinkt the finish is beautiful!

Sometimes rather than using a penetrating oil for stubborn rusty nuts You can heat and melt candle wax it is absorbed the same by capillary action, then some tapping and it comes loose. Good job.

Hola Lucia's. Hiciste un exelente trabajo con la morza... En que pais estas? Un gusto!!⚘🇺🇾

lovely work just found your channel. Have not seen a sandblasting machine those work great on old paint and rust, would love to see how you would make one.

You do such a great job at everything in the machine shop, if you have stuck nuts and bolts you can use bees wax like they use for furniture wax heat the bolt and apply some bees wax it will melt and wick into the threads and sometimes work where penetrating oil won't

Tough its 2 yrs old video,i never seen someone polishing the jaw to miror finish,,it would be great if you just coat it with linced oil or any bee wax or any sort of protactive layer ,these vices look great in the patina look,,,rest its your vice your choice,👍

Your English 👌😁! You did a great job!

Very nice job on the handle, but I was hoping to see you remake the spring. It looks like it’s missing the lowest 3 cm. Maybe that can be your first smithing project since you have the vise. Very good video!

Nice work! You probably know this, but for other people, leave the nut on a bolt with the nut flush with the end when banging on it. Protects the threads if you plan to use it again.

nice :) thanks

Dang!!!!! That turned out great!

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ó mais lindo em seus videos, e voçê.😘

Ewww, that really hurt at 2:00 when you got the nut off the jaw pivot bolt and then beat on the unprotected end of the bolt. I hope that did not harm the bolt's threads. I made that mistake once. Then my grandpa mentioned that If I had put the nut back on flush with the bolt before I hit it I would not have had that problem. That is my first memory of Grandpa Fritch teaching me things. Your videos are very well done. I would enjoy hearing more about your past and the pathway to becoming a maker in the machine shop. I forgot to mention that a friend in Sweden gave me a very similar blacksmith's vise for my shop. It had belonged to her father who was a friend of mine.

Super travail 🤗 vous êtes douée 👏👏👏 Pourriez-vous mettre les sous-titres en français pour vos prochaines vidéos s'il vous plaît ?

@luciasworkshop what finish did you use to protect the vice from rust? I have no idea what brown liquid was in that bottle? Thanks, LOVE the finish as is...

you should use a drift or a wood block to drive out those big bolts/pins. I watched the threads get bent. It just creates problems for later. Great video!

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how do you stay so clean?

beautiful work! I'm just about to start the same job and like you I like that natural look but for protection i'm thinking of matt blacking it. Nice work though, i'm impressed :)

I have a vise in the same condition as your end result. I too am struggling with whether or not to paint it. Mine will be place in and outside smithy, so leaving it bare with only a boiled linseed oil finish worries me. What did you end up doing with yours? Did you paint it?

no , don't paint it . i agree with you . :)

at 9:30 what is this fluid you applied to the vice? And what does it do actually?

for applying grease I use old toothbrush 😂

do it in boiled linseed oil.

Speaking as a blacksmith that loves the old look, some of what you did there almost made me cry in despair.

Leaf it just like that

Don’t paint. We’ll done

How to ruin a thread with a hammer. 😡😡

Please don't ever wear long sleeves while working near a lathe or any loose clothing. E.g Russian lathe accident

think some one needs to learn how to file

Don't paint it please

WAY overdone! Destroyed its value!!

Fake

OUF Very bad ! You never buff or sand old steel aging ! Unless its a functionnal area where surface finish matters... Sandblast to get rid of rust and oil finish only, this is soooo bad I want to cry