Eclipse Professional Tools EWWQR7 7" Quick Release Woodworking Vise, Grey

I purchased the 7 inch model. A good vice at an attractive price point. Even though I purchased the vice through Amazon warehouse deals, the item arrived in excellent condition. It had no visible damage, and all parts worked as they should. This affordable, but well-made and sufficiently heavy, woodworking vice even has a built-in bench dog, a very useful feature. By using the built-in bench dog with bench dogs in your workbench, you can tightly hold many different sizes of wood you are working on. The quick release feature is also a nice and useful feature, especially at this price. There are no mounting instructions, but I don't view this as a problem. The specific way to mount the vice will depend on the thickness of your workbench, whether you want to "flush mount" the vice, and where on the bench you seek to mount the vice. No single set of instructions could take these issues into account in a reasonable number of pages. Using common sense, planning ahead and analyzing your workbench will be rewarded. Mounting the vice can present unexpected challenges, but the end result is a very practical enhancement of a workbench (if you are only going to have 1 vice mounted to your bench permanently, this type is a good option). I attached the vice to the bench using four 1/2 inch lag screw bolts -- thankfully, the mounting hoIes in the vice are sufficiently large to accommodate 1/2 bolts. This permits a very strong and solid connection to the bench. I chose maple wood as the vice jaw liner and, after breaking a few phillips screw heads, decided to use bolts to attach the wood jaw liner to the two jaws. I used two 1/4 lag screw bolts to attach the liner to the thicker of the jaws (these bolts also screwed directly into the bench), and I used 2 smaller hex bolts with nuts to attach the second piece of maple to the thinner "outside" vice jaw. This takes time, but is well worth the effort. The vice is well-engineered. On some poorly engineered vices, the holes in the bottom of the vice, which are used to mount to the bottom of your bench, are in line with the holes on the thicker of the vice jaws -- this means that the two bolts may run into each other and prevent proper installation. This vice thankfully does not have this problem. Overall, the vice is an excellent value!

This is a heavy duty well made vice. I bought the 7 inch which is adequate for nearly all my needs. I love the quick release and that it has a pop-up dog for use with the bench dog system on my assembly table. I did need to grind a bit (not much) on the back of the casting so it would set true and square when I mounted it to my bench as it's simply raw casting there and not machined in any way, probably helps keep the price down. Also took a bit of shimming the mounts where it bolts to the underside to keep the faces square to my bench, but I expect that most such vises would take a bit of careful fitting. Overall the casting and machining on this vise appear top-notch. I think it's a really good deal for a small or hobby wood shop. I used through carriage bolts countersunk and plugged flush on the top of my bench as I felt this stronger than just lag bolts from the bottom. It's a bit more work, but I feel worth the effort so it won't shift or loosen over the years due to normal humidity and stresses. This unit works like a charm.

This Eclipse vise is a beast. The cast iron construction feels incredibly solid and the jaws grip with a force that's hard to match. I've used it for everything from delicate woodworking to heavy-duty metalworking, and it hasn't let me down yet. The quick-release mechanism is a real time-saver, and the overall design is both functional and aesthetically pleasing. If you're looking for a vise that can handle anything you throw at it, this is the one.

I'm a professional woodworker and I bought this for my second workbench. I already have two 35 year old Wilton vises with quick release features that still work perfectly. As I understand it this is a reproduction of the old Record No. 52 vise. It arrived undamaged from Amazon, the exterior box could have used more padding but it's ok. The action is smooth and is generally of high quality fabrication. The fast release mechanism works easily and the guide rods move without much friction and no binding. Everything is heavy duty and it should last a lifetime. I knocked it down one star for the following deficiencies (from a woodworker's point of view): 1) The Lead Screw is pitted from chatter marks made during machining (see photo closeup). This is probably due to vibration during milling and also from using a dull cutting tool edge. Really dumb error on the machinist's part. 2) The Lead Screw is not of Acme Thread quality (see photo of small section of an Acme Thread) like my old Wilton vises, which are very slow to wear out. However, I think this screw will also last a long time as the pitting does not affect the screw smoothness of movement. 3) The movable end stop for your wood item being worked does not recess all the way into the moving face plate so that you cannot lay a board down flush on the bench top and over the vise. So I had to hacksaw it off flush, about 1/4 inch taken off. 4) The face plates are designed to protrude above the bench top about 2.0 inches so you have to put a thick spacer block between the underside of the bench and the top of the mount casting. My spacer was about 1.75 thick for the thickness of my top. I think this was designed by a metal worker not a woodworker where the piece being held never lays flush on the bench top. I looked at a lot of vises and most were wimpy or just cheap. I even rejected Wilton who have really downgraded their vises from when I bought several decades ago. The woodworking stores were the worst, selling cheap hobbyist stuff that will be very disappointing in a short year or two. They should be ashamed. Overall this is one of the best vises in this price range for the 10" size and will work fine in a heavy use woodshop bench environment. I have included several photos as it is hard to really see the vise in the sales ad photos.

Works amazing; great price. I would recommend that you clean the threads out as there are a lot of metal filings. You can do this by taking off the quick release mechanism at the end of the vice (two bolts) and then freely spin the threads and use a cloth to clean it off. I also placed a file in the threads to clean up the burrs. I also made the dog a little shorter by cutting a bit off with a hack saw and filing it smooth so it will not interfere with planes and such. This is the top rated vice (for the price) by Paul Sellers.

I’ve been using this vice for just a little over a year… usage of once in two weeks. The spring of the quick release mechanism broke, making the thing useless. I tried to contact spear jackson/eclipse if replacement part is available. No reply till now.

Tres solide. Ça fait bien sûr la taffe !!

Highly recommend this. The speedy closing works remarkably well. I would also recommend the size. I don't know how I survived without one of these.

Ich habe diesen Schraubstock an meiner Werkbank montiert und bisher gibt es absolut keine Probleme. Der erste Eindruck ist sehr gut, das Material wirkt hochwertig und massiv. Die Mechanik läuft sauber und lässt sich gut bedienen. Natürlich muss man abwarten, wie er sich nach längerer Zeit im Dauereinsatz schlägt, aber aktuell macht er einen sehr stabilen Eindruck. Für den Preis bekommt man hier ein ordentliches Werkzeug, das einen zuverlässigen Job macht. Kann ich bis jetzt nur weiterempfehlen!