Yost Vises LV-4 Homeowner's Vise | 4.5 Inch Jaw Width with a 3 Inch Jaw Opening Home Vise | Secure Grip with Swivel Base | Blue

TREMENDOUS!!! Value. VERY impressed. Recommending to all my friends before price increase. Wow!

Installed in a workbench. So far has helped with a few projects to include: shaping metal, making fluid lines, drilling & more. For the price it's been pretty helpful thus far. 5/5 for use and value.

First off, YES, this is made in CHINA. As others have said if you want it from the USofA prepare to pay! This is a nice LIGHT DUTY bench vise. But, there could be some issues and you will need to do a smidge of work prior to putting this into service. When you take it out of the box and while you're doing the "is it broken" inspection, take it completely apart. That means run the vise all the way out and separate the base from the vise. First look at the center screw and make sure it dosent have any excess slop in it. There is a review here showing what excess slop is with pictures and how to correct it. Now get some general duty grease and grease the ACME screw on the vise jaw as well as the guide. The guide bar doesnt need much just a light coating. You do not need to grease the whole screw just the first inch or so with a liberal amount. Now take a little house hold oil (3in1) and put a couple of drops on ends of the handle and turn it to get it worked in. Also a drop or two on the locking screw. Now put a small amount of grease on the center of the mounting plate where the center bolt is at. Not much at all. Bolt the base back to the vise, put the lock screw handle back in. Mate the jaw assembly back together and run in in and out a couple of times. You will notice a BIG difference in its operation now. Let me re-visit LIGHT DUTY. If you are going to do the village smithy thing on this, its going to break. This isnt that kind of vise. Are you going to clamp this thing down to make diamonds, its going to break. Are you going to hold gun parts at your bench, or cut a bolt or other reasonable house hold tasks. It'll be just fine. TL:DR This is a very reasonably priced light duty household garage/basement bench vise. It has limitations and needs a little TLC when you first get it. Realize this and do the initial maintenance and it should serve you well.

The bench vise works fine I have clamped down to my table. It has been great for put AN fittings together.

Excellent quality, working grip, easy to use, my tools fit inside, blue color, and strong solid metal. Very heavy and sturdy.

Small vice for lighter duty work but still tough enough for small work bench.

It’s a good little vise. Does what it is supposed to, and it a great deal for the price.

Let me begin by saying that I think Yost makes a fine line of vises. Please read my review of the superb Yost RIA-4 bench vise - undoubtedly the Cadillac of small bench vises. Which makes Yost's apparent indifference to the well-documented complaints of slop in the LV-4 swivel pivot so hard to understand. My brand-new Model LV-4 arrived his afternoon, and the slop in the swivel pivot was obvious. As many reviewers have noted, this looseness makes it almost impossible to secure the vise against movement, and also puts unnecessary strain on the single pivot clamp, which users tend to tighten with max force in an effort to hold the vise still. A clear lose-lose that is so simple to fix! I discussed this problem with Yost customer service, and the person I spoke with was quite pleasant and friendly but dismissed the matter as possible tooling wear. Which is nonsense. Fortunately, I had a simple fix. Simple, that is, if you happen to have a scrap piece of thinwall copper or aluminum tubing. Which, by the way, is the deeply satisfying answer to your Significant Other asking you why you keep all that junk, to which you usually answer "Because I might need it some day." Well, that Some Day arrived this afternoon! Please see the two attached photos. I cut a short piece from a length of thinwall aluminum tubing that I knew, Just Knew, I would need someday. The tubing wasn't exactly the right diameter, so I split it lengthwise and slipped it over the pivot bolt that secures the body of the vise to the base. Voila!! no more slop! Now, much as I admire the Yost product line, I cannot justify, in my mind, their refusal to fix this dead-simple problem. I do resent having to fix a brand-new vise to correct an obvious manufacturer's oversight. A simple bushing in copper, brass, or aluminum, would cost Yost a couple of pennies, at most. But they evidently have chosen to ignore the many complaints by loyal users, and instead allow the vise to shift position unexpectedly, possibly compromising the work piece. Even offering it for a dollar as an after-market item would be nice..... Anyway, all's well that ends well....etc. I hope that this review is helpful. It should be possible to find a bushing of the correct diameter (length might be a problem). But I worked with what I had on hand.