Funky workmate?

[Robert Adams]

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

Yup been in more than one including semi tank welding shops and a few AV shops with 40' shears. It's obviously a production unit as if iit were built as a one off it would have been much more beefy and wouldn't have the odd base to it. The legs would have been more than just 120* bent thin sheet metal legs and compound angles at the base wouldn't be how you would build it yourself.

[Eazyduzzit]

Like Steve N. said, when you see it in person, it's obvious that it was a production tool. It just doesn't look like a one off at all. I wish I could find a description of what it was primarily made for. It looks like it would be good for carving.