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Funky workmate? - Eazyduzzit - 03-14-2017
Does anyone recognize what this thing is? A client gave it to me, and it looked a little interesting to me. I brought it home and blew most of the sawdust off of it. Now I can't think of what I would use it for.
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RE: Funky workmate? - Steve N - 03-15-2017
Do the 3 heads pivot around so you can take advantage of the different shapes? Pretty sure it's not production but someones idea of the perfect odd shape clamping device. The pic doesn't make it look too big, possibly a carver to hold a chunk of wood while they work on it?
RE: Funky workmate? - Daniel S - 03-15-2017
It looks like a small version of the this. http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=70655&cat=1,41637
RE: Funky workmate? - Chuck Nickerson - 03-15-2017
Looks like a custom set-up for clamp triangular casework, perhaps flag cases.
RE: Funky workmate? - Cecil - 03-15-2017
Prototype that got loose? April fools joke on the Boss, and it sat in the basement for years?
RE: Funky workmate? - RogerD - 03-15-2017
I came across this same Workmate like device at an estate sale. There were no markings, tags, or labels of a manufacturer. Definitely looked like a production product vs a prototype. The person having the sale had no idea where the tool was bought.
Roger Davis
RE: Funky workmate? - Robert Adams - 03-16-2017
Looking at the base it's definitely a production item. The triangular shelves and the V shaped legs that perfectly fit the points of the shelves. There is no way anyone would spend that much effort in the sheet metal shop to make a one off with those angles. Not to mention those plastic bench dogs that are like none I have ever seen. Also that tool holder is a B&D staple.
The orange color suggests it was built in the 1960s. Looks like a very limited run of a black and decker work mate and I'd be very surprised if it wasnt.
RE: Funky workmate? - Steve N - 03-16-2017
Have you ever been in a sheet metal shop? Between Machinists, and sheet metal guys that is a quick project. I don't think anything on that is production except the sawn off chunks of wood, and the stripped off crank vises from a workmate. I imagine the metal legs are just cut offs from one or the other
RE: Funky workmate? - jgourlay - 03-17-2017
For holding wooden sculpture. The kind you start off making with a chainsaw and angle grinder.
RE: Funky workmate? - Lynden - 03-17-2017
There's a picture of another one in the link below.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92136&page=11 -- long, but interesting, thread