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Old Columbian vise (looks like 6" plus) for only $35 in Summerville, SC (near Charleston)- somebody buy it so I'm not tempted. https://charleston.craigslist.org/tls/d/bench-vise-antique/6534975809.html

Not sure how the pricing compares nowadays, but when I wired a chopper a few years back I went with Del City- https://www.delcity.net/store/Wire-&-Cable/

Yeah, that has definitely been my experience- I built a stand for a smaller vise, probably 6" and maybe 50#, with a 4x4 pressure-treated frame with a half-dozen or so big brake discs loaded up in the bottom, casters low on one side to wheel it when tipped... and for most projects I end up having...

About 15 years ago I bought a nice Onkyo surround sound receiver and hooked it up in the garage, but after just a couple of years in a non-insulated garage (100+ degrees and just so absurdly humid) it was fried. Same with an inexpensive all-in-one-box stereo I bought to replace it. Now I just...

I haven't seen the Makita in person, but looking at the pictures it doesn't actually seem to be designed for one-handed operation- If the blade wants to skate sideways when you start the cut you're not going to have any leverage to keep it pointed in the right direction. It just takes up less...

I wanted a magnetic wristband so I could stop "mouthing" screws, and was surprised not to find one at any of my local hardware stores. So, I stitched up this one on my old Singer Mod. 15 using some leather and PC hard drive magnets I had around. Then I discovered that Amazon sells them for $10...

But the fact that the vents are right where your hand naturally sits when holding the tool blows my mind :eyecrazy: They've been building these things for decades, there's no excuse for not having a better solution. (Actually, I could swear it wasn't nearly as big a problem on my 1990s-vintage...