Whats the most over rated Vise ever made?

[AngryBeaver]

This post was triggered by someone recommending a certain vise that was new over a larger, more robust machinist vise. I know everyone has their favorites..


What is the most over rated vise out there?


My thoughts are the Wilton Tradesman. Where else can you get a 4" sized vise with 6.5" jaws, crappy powdered metal jaws, equally crappy keychain sized pipe jaws and a price tag that is almost double what it should be?

 

[AFSOC]

How'd ya get your screen name?

 

[AA/FC]

How'd ya get your screen name?

Maybe he's a fan of the Duluth Trading Company? lolol

 

[DFB]

This post was triggered by someone recommending a certain vise that was new over a larger, more robust machinist vise. I know everyone has their favorites..


What is the most over rated vise out there?


My thoughts are the Wilton Tradesman. Where else can you get a 4" sized vise with 6.5" jaws, crappy powdered metal jaws, equally crappy keychain sized pipe jaws and a price tag that is almost double what it should be?

I'm in for the ride here!

 

[larry_g]

To me it would be some of the vise looking objects that come out of Asia/India. Look at them hard and they break, The handles are small, soft, and bend easily. They are misconfigured door stops. Free is not a good price for some of them.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[1982fxr]

1990's beat up Asian swivel body vises with an ad proclaiming that "they don't make them like this anymore!"

 

[AngryBeaver]

How'd ya get your screen name?

I port blowers and intakes for cobras and shelbys. a buddy came over and saw one that I had started hogging out material from and was nowhere finished. e said it looked like an angry beaver chewed on it.....

the name stuck and Angry beaver fab was born (out of my home shop)

 

[Packard V8]

I'd trade my decent condition 4" classic for an excellent condition Tradesman 6.5" if anyone has one they want to trade. It's more usable, and clamps slightly better, in my experience.

My Tradesman 1765 is in less than excellent condition, but it's probably the best user vise I have; and that includes Athol, Rock Island, Columbian, Parker and several others. It probably wouldn't take direct hammering abuse like the Rock Island, but that's just abuse, anyway.

jack vines

 

[zkling]

Over rated how? Realize that the majority of vises on this forum are ornaments / collectibles. Nothing wrong with that, as long as one understands their intended use as visual objects and not work producing tools. Thus grading a collectible on usability and calling it over rated, does not seem logical to me.

In my opinion.....
Stiffness, especially dynamic. I’d say anything with a steel slide joined to a dynamic jaw casting tower. Simplex, Wilton modern 500, 600, C2, C3, all the pressed slide units by Colombian and the like.

Jaw compatibility, Parker followed by reed.

 

[kald]

1990's beat up Asian swivel body vises with an ad proclaiming that "they don't make them like this anymore!"

Ahhhhhh! The good old swivel of death!!
Had one break on me with a pry bar and dam near killed me.