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[stubhead]

As mine is still wrapped up is a big baggie, under which it is entirely slathered with grease - the good grease, WWII-type, manly Xtra-greasy grease - I'll just go with the original's page:

http://www.grizzly.com/products/Parrot-Vise-/H3302

It was the Frank Ford rave that put me over the top. You can, actually, accomplish surprising things clamping bodies into dresser drawers, piling bricks on stuff etc. - but enough is enough.
http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Luthier/ProductReviews/Tools/ParrotVise/parrotvise.html

Frank's site is actually full of useful info, it's worth reading through the little stuff just to see how his mind works - there pretty much isn't anything in a shop he hasn't thought about or any kind of gackedness in an instrument he hasn't fixed. He's real big on making tools out of 10c yard sale finds instead of paying $37 at Stew-Mac.
http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/pagelist.html#Luthier
http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ShopTips/tiplist.html

 

[Cagey]

Interesting. I need something I can re-orient 90°.

Naptha will clean off that gorilla snot they call grease. Use paper towel, though. A rag will just keep smearing it as there's too much. You need to keep getting a fresh wipe.

 

[Wyliee]

I'm quite fond of my patternmaker's vise.

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/577167/wheeler-engineering-patternmakers-vise

which StewMac paints red, calls it a guitar repair vise and charges another $50.
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Vises/Guitar_Repair_Vise.html

 

[SustainerPlayer]

which StewMac paints red, calls it a guitar repair vise and charges another $50.
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Vises/Guitar_Repair_Vise.html

They really should offer more paint jobs. It would look killer in copper burst.  :laughing7:

 

[greywolf]

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