I picked up this Stanley No. 400 Miter Vise at the long since gone Sausalito Flea Market. For a while I had two of these in my collection but slimmed down when I moved East keeping the nicer of the two.

Rating: 4.75 out of 5 stars

Experience:

I didn’t go out looking for this vise because I needed to make picture frames. It’s one of the tools I’m not sure how I ended up with but it’s a good one that has found a long time home in my shop. I pulled it off a very dusty shelf for this picture but I have recently used this vise to assemble a frame.

Picture frames aren’t all this vise is good for, nor miter joints the only seam one can clamp with it. Two sides of a frame like cabinet doors and box sides up to 4+” thick can be clamped perpendicular to one another.

Links:
4″ Miter Vise for sale through Amazon.com
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CRL 4″ capacity Miter Vise at Amazon.com

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Wow, I didn’t know this vise was so popular until I looked it up today. I’ve owned a Zyliss vise for 20 years. When I picked it up at a tag sale I thought it might be for waxing skiis but I put it to use in my wood shop and haven’t replaced it yet. This is a well build Swiss tool.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Features:

• Aluminum jaws
• Tube clamping jaws
• Additional plastic jaws
• Auxilliary clamping jaw for bulky workpieces
• Plastic jaw for delicate parts
• Chuck for round pieces
• Turntable and Drilling Machine holder

Experience:
I’ve used this Zyliss Profi-King Vise in each shop I’ve had for the past 20 years. It was easy to install on many different benches over the years. It is currently mounted on a block of oak that I bolted to an assembly table. One of the best features is the handle which can tighten the jaws and then move freely out of the way. It’s aluminum so it’s a fairly blade safe metal vise that, free from burrs, is safe against your work. I keep a few blocks of wood for between material and vise, the blocks of wood protect my work and provide a larger clamping surface.

I use this Zyliss to hold my work, be it a small piece under the dremel tool or a large panel for edge forming. The Zyliss Profi-King is a strong vise with a large threads for easy adjustments. Did I say I like the Aluminum already?

I’m glad to see several Zyliss Profi-King vises on ebay but I don’t foresee a reason to replace mine for a long time to come.