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[Kernopelli]

Everyone has covered any advice I have. I picked up my Yost model 33C 5" vice for $25. I knew immediately it was a high quality heavy duty vice but I about fell over when I got home and looked it up online and saw they run about $1000. I bought it from a neighbor that has several yard sales every year and her husband is a retired plumber. Every now and then he'll put some tools in her sales. I've gotten some very good hand tools for "pennies" at their yard sales too.

I don't expect to ever find another deal like the one I got on the Yost but I do see a LOT of very good vices at local autions and they rarely sell for more than $150 for the very best ones.

[Baby Grand]

Found a very heavy duty bench vise for $45 while at an antiques store with my wife. The secret of finding one at a good price may be to go shopping in places that real men dare not tread. Also, I wasn't looking for a vise, it just leapt out at me and begged to be taken away from that fru-fru place.

[The kid]

Where can I find a good vice for my toolbench and not spend 300.00 for it?

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