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Custom modifications make it the best!

Guitar Repair Vise


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Don't mistake our vise for one of the many copycats! We've customized our Guitar Repair Vise to give it bearing-smooth operation that you won't find elsewhere. Turn the fast-crank handwheel and you'll immediately feel the difference.

Customized four ways:
1. Fast-crank handwheel with removable handle
2. Roller bearings for fast smooth opening/closing
3. Protective urethane surfaces on custom hardwood jaws
4. Nylon-core adjustable tension nuts control 360° jaw rotation

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Item# Description In stock Price Quantity
1813 Guitar Repair Vise Yes
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A good vise is the central hub of your workshop. Every repair or building job benefits from a solid, secure vise, and if it's actually a pleasure to use that's all the better!

Our Guitar Repair Vise is 32 pounds of steel that rotates full-circle to position the work for comfortable access. Each inch-thick hardwood jaw rotates too, with forgiving urethane surfaces to hold instruments of any shape/any size. This vise holds a the tapered angles of a neck securely without needing any shims. Nylon-core adjustment nuts set the tension on the rotating jaws, so you can let them spin loosely or hold their angle. The vise jaws open to a maximum of 6" (15.24cm).

We've built in a roller bearing so the vise opens and adjusts smoothly - and added a crank handle to make it speedy. (The handle's conveniently removable, too.)

The sturdy cast-iron base can be installed under your workbench for 8-5/8" vise height, or on top for 10-1/16" height. The threaded mounting rod and large wingnut mount the vise quickly on any benchtop up to 4-1/2" thick.

Extra parts for the Guitar Repair Vise available.
Replacement parts for your vise and upgrading older vises.


SAVE when you order the Vise and ShopStand together!

ShopStand and Guitar Repair Vise Set is the perfect combo to set up your vise to be a sturdy, 360-degree swiveling money saver!


New ways to use the Guitar Repair Vise
Dan Erlewine’s been teaching his vise to do tricks!
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In this issue of Trade Secrets, Dan makes his Guitar Repair Vise sit up and roll over. Who knew cast iron could be so flexible?
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Guitar Repair Vise
Guitar Repair Vise
 
4.5 out of 5 stars
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5 1-20-2012
Multiple Use More than a Vise

I put a nylon string into the vise holding it by the neck it was perfect for doing fret work; especially the dressing. No Shop should be without one or two. Great job Stewmac
Ms Ricki Leigh

Ricki Leigh  Pennsylvania Read my reviews (9)
5 9-14-2011
Great Vise!

It took me a while to warm up to this tool, as I had become accustomed to my parrot vise over the years. Well, the Guitar Repair Vise has grown on me and now gets used almost daily.

J. Travis Snyder Classical Guitars  Greenville, NC Read my reviews (4)
1 8-29-2011
Not as advertised!

Like a few others: First one was a train-wreck. Customer service apologized and was great to get me a second vise and pay shipping, but the second vise was also a lemon. I had to tear them both apart and swap parts to make one functional. Would not buy this product again. I paid the higher-price and chose this over competitors expecting a better product and not having to waste time getting it to work.

Middleton Guitars  Southern California Read my reviews (43)
5 8-14-2011
Great Vise

This workout to be a great Guitar vise, It is bulky and heavy with a steel cross bar that made me nerves at first but placing a piece of leather on the cross bar gave me piece of mind.

BGMcAttee  DeWitt, MI
5 7-08-2011
Satisfied

The vise works well. But the best is the unbeatable service of Stewmac!
A Thanks to Matt Street.
Greetings Peter

Linus Guitars  Austria Read my reviews (2)
5 7-01-2011
Great Vise

This is a really good vise and well worth the price, made my work so much easier.

Eric T  West Richland, Wa
5 6-30-2011
That's better!

Thanks very much. The second vise is completely different - smooth to operate with one hand (an essential requirement as the other hand is holding the guitar!) Thanks to all at Stewmac - my faith is restored!

Colin  Cumbria, UK Read my reviews (3)
5 6-20-2011
Works Great

This is one of the most used tools in the shop. We use it for holding necks and bodies in different angles. It is simply a gun stock vice adapted to work with guitars. -Matt Dreher

Spider Web Music  Howland- Warren, Ohio Read my reviews (5)
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5 5-30-2011
Best bang for my buck!!

I looked around at other vises and this price was by far the cheapest but only in price!! I can't believe I lived without this in my shop!!!

DAM Guitars  Canada
5 5-29-2011
That extra pair of hands you always wanted.

I've put off buying this because of the cost of shipping it to Australia but finally bit the bullet and got one. On receiving it I found it wasn't as smooth as the one in the demo video having to turn the round handle using my whole hand rather than turning the removable handle with just my fingers. I sent an email to the service dept asking for advice on how to make the action a bit smoother and they responded immediately saying that they will send another to me at no cost. Received the second in three days and it worked as smoothly as the one in Dan's video. Excellent tool and excellent service.

Gerry A.  Australia Read my reviews (4)
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