The 38-pound vise can be bolted to a bench top or a pedestal, to give you access to the horn and anvil surface from all sides (unlike a bench vise, it doesn’t have a swivel base). Related Stories ...

Order an anvil and let the sparks fly. Maybe it’s because our smokestack industries are in decline that a rising number of Americans feel the need to get their metalworking fix in home workshops.

So I decided to make my own bench vise with a large girth, so that it would be possible to work with large and not only things. I am very pleased when one of my long-standing ideas becomes a ...