3 Inch general purpose bench vice - recommendations

[Monarch Country Products]

It depends what you want to do with it. I am sure it would be fit for general purpose, light duty.

Some of the £50 bottom end Record vices from grey cast iron are no better than the [perfectly serviceable] Chinese versions....the £400 and £500 ones made from SG (ductile) iron are the quality they built their reputation on.

I have only ever bought second hand vices and would advise that you could do better for your buck with eBay second hand...

I always need to hit things so a leg vice is most useful for me, but recently I was very happy to acquire a Record Leader 14P vice which is fabricated from steel and so combines the parallel jaw action of an engineers vice and the hittability of a blacksmiths leg vice...didn't know of their existence until a few months ago when I wiped the dust of the name plate of this one.

Alan


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Not seen one of these for a long time. Reckon this will be approx 40yrs old & had very limited distribution in the UK market.

I remember the design being resurrected for the South African market around 2008.

The oldest Record Vice I saw still in use was in the Royal Devonport dock yard, we traced the model back to being about 80yrs old & was still in good working order and being used on a daily basis....