Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? A workshop isn’t complete until it has a bench vise. Without it, you’ll find yourself ...

It’s a workshop axiom: If you can’t hold the workpiece securely, you can’t work on it well. Sure, there are lots of times when you can hold something with one hand and cut or drill it with the other.

When we sit down to a build video and see that it’s from [Workshop From Scratch], we know it’ll be a good one, full of plenty of gratuitous metal-wrangling with the promise of an ingenious and useful ...