Bench Vise 4.5inch Tools Vice Table Vice Clamping Woodworkers Vise

Queue LOTR theme music. Duhdedu...... du.du.... picture the flames, hear the shrieks, smell burned elf flesh and feel the wrath of Soromon. Now look at the pictures and feel the weight of this vise. Is it not the perfect vise? I ordered this product because I needed a vise for simple home DIY. What I love about it everything, it is heavy and balanced well enough that it is portable between my kitchen and my free-standing garage, which is a long walk. So I can carry this back and forth (using 2 hands or a backpack, LOL). It works as well as any I have used.

Light duty vice, perfect for my garage workbench.

Installed this on my drill press stand which is upstairs in my shop as a secondary workstation. I have a much beefier vice downstairs. This feels fairly lite duty. It’s simple to install, comes with some mounting bolts which won’t work if your bench is more than 1” or so. I had some spare lags that I used for the area I’d my bench that are 2 1/2”thick. I think this would be fine for homeowner/hobbiest. Box had good padding.

For any residential and home repairs this vise is ideal. Perfect size for all different sized boards (2x4, 2x2,1x4, etc.). It is also good for metal work and plumbing cuts.The vise is attractively finished with no sharp edges and has a small anvil platform. It operates freely but not loosely.Two of them - one on each end of your work bench - and you would be set for almost any task, but one completes any home workshop. You can't go wrong with this.

The vise came very well packaged. Fit and finish are extremely nice, especially given the reasonable price point. It came with four mounting bolts, washers, and nuts. I did use one bolt through the bench top, and used three lag screws to mount the other feet to the bench frame.The vise can rotate the advertised 270 degrees. So check the rotation before you mount it, to be sure you can use it in the directions that work for your layout.The first couple of turns of the jackscrew were a little balky. The screw seemed to be machined fine, so I hit it with a little spray lubricant I had on the bench. Problem instantly solved. Vise moves with ease...I clamped in some bar stock, and tested the clamp force by cutting the stock with a hacksaw followed by filing of the new edges. Then I did the same thing using the pipe clamp on a piece of 2" steel pipe. In both cases the clamp force was sufficient to hold the material yet not cut it.Good all around light to medium duty bench vise...