Record 52-1/2ED Quick Release Woodworker's Vise (with "Dog"), 9" Jaw Width

This wood vise has a prominent place attached to my work bench. With maple wood jaws attached to the metal jaws it is perfect for woodworking needs. It is high quality and the lever allowing sliding the jaws in and out without having to crank forever is a definite plus. The jaw width is great for wood projects and mounting it on your woodworking table is easy. I highly recommend this vise. It will last forever.

Doesn't rock, clamping power to the max, looks great. It is exactly what it is supposed to be!!!!

Buy this one, quickly, while you still can get a gen-yoo-wine, made-by-Brits-in-Sheffield vise for a Taiwanese price. The Record 52-1/2 is a far better device than expected for a little over a hundred bucks. It has tremendous capacity, is heckforstrong, and is fast-acting without mystical half-turn gymnastics. It has a nice, long-lasting blue paint finish, and decent metal finishes as well. You can tighten it up with a whomping mallet mash if you care to, and it will take it and smile back at you. The quick-release lever is a pure gem in operation. This champion of a vise deserves a big, heavy bench to support it in the fashion in which it would like to become accustomed. Be aware that mounting procedures will affect your long-term enjoyment greatly. If your bench is edged, mounting Big Blue behind the edging gives you a seamless inside face; this is superior to recessing it into the bench side. You also should fabricate an outside jaw pad of hardwood. Magnetic pads are available for this vise, but they look crummy on a nice bench, can't be made from scraps and won't last as long as maple ones. A useful, plain-English installation guide is included. Waxing the screw and guides is recommended. Don't use oil, grease or WD40, all of which will accumulate crud rapidly. Drawbacks are few: you won't get the full jaw width after facing the jaws (you don't need it anyway); it weighs about an Imperial ton (only a disadvantage if your bench is lightish); and it will torque its works a bit if you rachet down hard with a piece of stock held vertically in one side. This last peccadillo is curable by the expedient of shimming the opposite side with a board of equal thickness. Final drawback is the dog, which is good hard steel -- just the thing to punch divots in your workpieces. Make a new one out of hardwood (takes 15 minutes or so if you're slow like me), and your troubles are over. Alternatively, you can use cauls between the dog and your workpieces. The ONLY reason I'll never buy another Record 52-1/2 is that a guy really only needs one -- and I'll never wear this one out. Nice to see well-made gear out there.

This product had chips off of the worm gear it had the back plate bent and chips off of the front I was very dissatisfied

The classic Record vice. It should outlast me. These things are great.

Best vise ever!!!

Record 52-1/2ED Quick Release Woodworker's Vise (with"Dog"), 9" Jaw Width I've had one of these vises for many years and it is still the best make/model wood vise on the market. I've used the vise perhaps a thousand times and it's never failed. The quick release is a God-send for speeding up the adjustment. The vise is perfectly square in all directions and quality, unlike the Chinese-made knockoffs, is first rate. E.g., when you close the vise, the faces completely touch each other at exactly the same time. If I needed another one, I'd get this one or the 10.5" Record...

As with the majority of equipment manufactured by Record, you will find attention to detail and excellent quality. The 52-1/2 does not disappoint. The thread design on the clamp is very beefy and will withstand as much pressure as you can muster without the possibility of striping out. This is something you want find on the Taiwanese copycats. The ratio of handle turn to clamp movement is excellent allowing for incremental adjustment of clamping pressure without the fear of "over doing it". The adjustable top "dog" is great when used in conjunction with bench "dogs" resulting in even great clamping width capacities. The quick release feature is very helpful in quickly adjusting the jaw width without having to crank your arm off. As mentioned in an earlier review, careful attention should be paid to adequately mount the vice. I anchored the vise in a 2" x 4" laminated workbench by rabbiting the rear vice clamp into the bottom of the workbench and then secured it with ¼" x 2 ½" lag bolts. I also attached a 12" long 2" x 4" to the front vice clamp. This gives me a wood-on-wood clamping surface to protect the surface of my projects. This should be the first (and it will probably be the last) vise you consider or purchase.

J'ai acheté cette presse pour remplacer la presse d'origine d'un établi Holzmann, laquelle ne fixait pas assez bien pour mon gout personnel. Finalement je n'ai pas remplacé la presse, mais la rajouté, parce que je ne pouvais pas la monter assez proche du bout sans déstabiliser le cadre. Le montage était un challenge, au moins pour moi. Pour être au même niveau que le plan de travail il faut une épaisseur du plan de travail d'environ 10 cm, et il faut avoir environ 11 cm d'espace libre, voir quelques millimètres de plus dessous. Dans mon cas il fallait rehausser le plan de travail de 6,5 cm, ce que finalement me convient assez bien pour mon travail, et épaissir le plan de travail pour pouvoir fixer la presse. Beaucoup de travail, mais je suis entièrement satisfait. Ce que j'aime c'est la force de serrage et le changement de position rapide. La presse n'est pas entièrement parallele dans le plan vertical, mais se met en parallele sous une pression importante. Sur le plan horizontal elle ne reste pas entièrement parallelle non plus, si on fixe un bout de bois uniquement sur un coté de la presse, mais la force de serrage permet une fixation parfaite. J'allais quand même fixer un autre bout de bois de la même épaisseur de l'autre coté pour tout ce qui est fragile. En conclusion je suis très content de maintenant pouvoir disposer d'une presse d'établi costaude.

A real beast of a vice that needs a sturdy bench to affix to. Well worth the money if you are in need of a heavy duty vice. My only niggle was that the faces of the vice were not flush when closed. Not a big problem because, for woodwork you need to add wooden faces of your own to avoid marking any wood that you have clamped in the vice, so it is easy enough to shape the wooden faces so that the vice closes to face-to-face.

Ordentlich schwer, ordentliche Spannkraft, da wackelt nichts. Habe die Spannzange jetzt seit drei Monaten und bin mehr wie zufrieden damit. Ich würde sie wieder kaufen.

This a truly a massive and heavy thing. Well made, for instance the jaws are perfectly square. Its very smooth to open and close. With hard use each day it should last many hundreds of years. You do need a very substantially bench to fit it on thou. I fitted it to a bench designed by Paul Sellers which uses laminated 4 X 2 for the top. It was a perfect fit. I am only new to woodworking. I was planning to fit a dog system to the bench, but this thing opens so wide i am not sure its needed now, and want do that for the time being. Extremely happy with the vice.

Excellent. Solide, avec une grande ouverture en the les mors.Installer sans problème sous un établis de 10 cm d'épaisseur... Attention au poids (12 kg je pense).