Wilton Mechanics Bench Vise, 5" Jaw Width, 5-1/4" Jaw Opening, 3-3/4" Throat (Model 745)

As advertised. Good, solid, shaft turns cleanly and smoothly.

Very nice addition to our workbench. Although this is not the American made model, it is exactly what I wanted. It is a robust unit and nicely manufactured.

Got this vice to replace a smaller one in my garage workshop. When it arrived, I thought it would be too big & heavy but after installation it works well in the limited space I have. Don't fasten it to a flimsy or cheap homeowner's bench. It needs a solid, substantial work surface & heavy bolts to be safe. I took mine apart for cleaning and lubing with wheel bearing grease, which smoothed things out. Now it feels very precise and strong. A great vice & good value.

I purchased this vise almost a year ago and use it in my shop. This vise is very heavy duty and durable. The large base bolts down securely to my bench. I have secured everything from wood projects to heavy angle and I-beam steal in this vice with not a whimper on its part. The screw drive that opens and closes the vice is smooth and without the wobble you see in chinese made vises. Not only is this vise rugged, but it is really beautiful and nicely machined. I have pounded and shaped metal with sledgehammers in and on this vise without any mishap. I firmly believe that my children's children will still be using this vise years from now. I can't say enough good things about my vise.

Other vise I have used the flat anvil portion is super hard, and you can use it to straighten out a nail or pound something flat--with little marking and no damage to the anvil surface. Every thing I've placed on the anvil so far has put deep dents into the surface, and I haven't stuck it hard at all. So the vise portion is good, but the anvil feels like tool steel in the way it dents and scars so easily--disappointing as I use the anvil on my vises a lot , and it frustrates me to see that anything I hit on it leaves a mark that dents the surface and makes it less and less flat each time I use it. Maybe mine is deffective or wasn't heat treated or something? All I know is I've never seen a vise anvil surface dent that easily. The vise itself is good, though if you clamp something in the jaws tightly on one side, you see the other sides gap shrink noticably as you tighten--I expected this vise to hold things without flexing that much. I want even pressure when I clamp down the jaw tight, not a jaw that will flex visibly as you tighten it down. It's better than most vises I've seen, but I'm a little dissapointed in that I wasn't trying to buy an above average vise, I was trying to buy a REALLY nice vise.

This is one high-quality piece of American made steel. This company makes these here in America but also some in China so if buying American made is important make sure you look closely before you make the purchase. This is the only one you’ll ever buy.

I've used a lot of this exact style vise at work. For the money they are hard to beat even if you destroy them in several years. We have used one in an outdoor welding shop onboard an oil rig for over a year now and it gets used and abused every day. I doesn't look pretty and might be a little sloppy, but it still holds things tight. We have another one inside an engineering workshop and it is holding up very well. Gets used daily for hard projects! Now I'm sure you can get a bad one now and then, but for me, the abuse I've seen offshore makes it plenty good for my shop at home. I bought this one for the house, showed up in 4 days in a nice box from the MFG without a scratch or dent. Don't think about it...just buy it.

I considered many different options when exploring a new vise for my workshop. Everything from the cheapo HF options to the high end Wilton models. In the end, and not wanting to spend several hundred dollars, this Wilton 21400 #745, 5 inch vise seemed to be a good compromise between high end and the really cheap foreign made versions. Even HD and Lowe's did not have a model that was acceptable to me. This model was nice since it has replaceable jaws and the mechanism is self lubricated and enclosed. I would recommend this vise as a good option. One last comment is that the vise looks a little different and much nicer than the grey picture as shown here. It's actually a light blue/grey color with the Wilton emblem on the side.

Disappointment is the word how I feel. I don't know why I thought that because its a Wilton, it'll be much better than my current 60 years old shabby vice. Maybe because Wilton website is perfect, therefore you think, the products are perfect. I expected it to make me feel good. Nope. Hence, if you're considering this 21300 744 model, my advice No1 is to NOT have your hopes too high. The jaws will not meet parallel; one jaw will be higher than the other, on one side, but not on the other; there will be debris inside, in all joints and threads; and no grease on main screw; and scratches. My advice No2 is to re-consider buying a new vice or at least this vice. If I knew what low quality I would get, I would not buy it. I would just clean up and re-paint the old vice for $20 and be much happier. So unless your old vice cracked and fell apart, don't buy a new one. Advice No3 - revise your requirements for a new vice, don't look for 4 mounting points or for double-lockdowns or for something what you can't get. Because for Canadians, very little choice is made available, and what is available, like this 744 vice, is only sold by a single supplier and at 3 times the price. If by now, you haven't changed your mind, read my comments again - you will save yourself from huge disappointment. All in all I do not recommend this vice. New edit: forgot to mention, the jaw opening is NOT 4 1/2" as stated in the specs, but in actuality, the practical opening is 4" as the main screw disengages at 4 1/8". For me, not a big deal, but for someone else, could be a big surprise. New edit #2: discovered another surprise - mounting holes are of smaller diameter. In the specs, mounting hole is 9/16" and recommended bolt diameter 1/2". However, don't rush to buy 1/2", because it won't fit. The vice that I just received, has actual hole diameter 0.488", hence, 1/2 (0.5) inch bolt will be too big. Product dimensions can change without notice, and the drawings become outdated. I recommend you wait to receive the vice, then measure the actual hole, and then buy the bolt that fits the hole and not the drawings.

Solid vise. Great quality. No complaints. You get what you pay for. This is no entry level vise. Does everything you need it to do

Es un tornillo de banco muy robusto y de buena calidad , en imagen no se aprecía pero es bastante pesado y sólido, 10 de 10 👍🏽