HEIZOWoodworking Bench Vise for Workbench, Table Vise Clamp-On Vise, Multi-functional Combined Vise with Quick Adjustment for Woodworking, Cutting Conduit, Drilling, Metalworking

Summary - Fantastic small vice, especially for small living spaces (like an RV), or inability to permanently mount a vice.Pros:* Small, Light, and Portable - This vice is smaller than I expected. It's not tiny, but the jaw-width is 3.25 inches, height (from table) is 2.0 inches and total length (including handle) is 12.25 inches.* Smooth operation - Overall, all of the operations are smooth so far. It has decent clapming force, but perhaps not quite on the same level as a bench-vice.* Table Mount - The table mount allows you to easily add and remove it from any table up to about 2 inches thick. It operates like most table mounts* Non-Rectangular Clamp - The posts on the top allow you to clamp some items of unusual non-flat shapes (see photo).Cons/Mixed:* Medium-Light Duty - This won't provide the same clamping force or utility as a dedicated, permanently mounted bench vice.* Non Rotating - Many bench-vices can be rotated. This one is only in the direction of the table.* Metal Posts Easy to Lose - The 4 metal posts in the top of the vice aren't really "secured" so if you remove the vice from the table, pick it up at an angle, your posts might fall out and roll across the floor under a nearby couch, rock, or other item. I managed to lose a post in the first few minutes of having the vice, though thankfully I found it again. I'd recommend either gluing the posts, adding some kind of material around the posts inside the vice for friction, or if you happen to have small magnets around, glue 4 of them in the bottom.* No transport container/bag - Because there are several individual parts, you'll want to keep them together somehow. You could close the clamp to hold the two table-mounts, however the 4 posts you'll probably want to glue them in as I mentioned above.So long as you're aware of what you're buying, this is about a 4.5 star small portable vice. However, if you have a more permanent workbench setup, I'd probably go with a more typical vice.

Got this today because I’m drilling out a bunch of washers with a step bit and I was finding it hard to hold in my normal vice. The four posts that stick up out of the vice worked perfectly. Two things The handle doesn’t have much grip And the body of the vice is actually plastic so if you clamp heavy duty It may not hold. For the price, it worked just great

It may seem like an odd observation but very often being able to work with woodworking pieces successfully means having a stable way to hold parts that are, often, oddly shaped, in a way that you can shave, carve, cut, etc. without the piece actually moving.On my worktable, I have bench dogs that do this, but often bench dogs either won't work with smaller pieces or can actually damage the piece you are trying to hold. The Heizo Bench vise is well designed to hold these pieces firmly when a workbench and dogs will not work.Example, I have a drawer part I was making that was oddly shaped. If I used a bench dog on it, the impressions from the pressure of the dogs would likely have remained forever. I used this Heizo vise grip and it help the part, let me shape it and perfect it and afterwards, there were no marks or disfigurements in the piece.All in all, it did exactly what I'd hoped, did it well and I'm glad I have this as an addition to my workshop. Its easy to use, surprisingly versatile and well made. I expect it to last for a long time. I recommend it if you have a workshop and sometimes work with small pieces or with pieces that are too awkward to fit well into a normal workbench/workdog configuration.

Quality is so-so. The vise works itself loose and you have to constantly retighten it.The parts seem to be well-made though, so no complaints there.

To be honest, I felt that this vise is kind of a disappointment. Quality of construction and assembly is reasonably good, but I think the item description oversells the utility of this tool. I would never think to use this on any type of mechanically stressful task, but would only consider it for holding a light weight item being worked on. It does come with some clamping pins that allow gripping odd shaped items.I wanted to like it, but I can't wholeheartedly recommend this item.

This thing is fabulous! It's one of those things that I didn't know I couldn't live without. It's extremely flexible, you can even use the clamps on the dynamic jaw instead of the static jaw. I don't know why you would use that, but it's a nice available option. I only wish it came with a case, but it doesn't, so I'm keeping the styrofoam it was shipped with. I've used it several times now for drilling, soldering, and gluing, and it worked perfectly.

Flimsy. Wood slips from clamp. The clamps that clamp to table are very flimsy. The entire product is absolute garbage. It’s so lightweight it can’t hold anything correctly. The adjusting is a pain and forget trying to maneuver at an angle. After 5 minutes I cut myself from the wood loosing its grip while I was using a chisel. Returning this piece of crap.

Like the versatile applications for multitude of materials