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The Ultimate Guitar Repair Vise – Designed for Luthiers
The StewMac Guitar Repair Vise is the trusted choice of professional luthiers and repair shops. We’ve taken the classic vise and customized it with precision enhancements to provide bearing-smooth operation, fast adjustments, and secure, damage-free clamping for delicate guitar repairs and builds.
What Makes This Vise the Best?
- Fast-Crank Handwheel: Opens and closes the vise quickly, with a removable handle for convenience
- Roller Bearings: Ensures effortless, smooth adjustments every time
- Urethane-Coated Hardwood Jaws: Holds instruments securely while protecting delicate finishes
- 360° Rotating Jaws: Adjustable nylon-core tension nuts allow full control over jaw movement
Maximum Protection for Guitar Necks
Unlike standard vises, this one is built specifically for guitar work. It includes three custom Neck Protectors—foam inserts that prevent accidental dents and dings while clamping. These were added based on feedback from professional luthiers who needed extra protection for fragile instrument necks.
Heavy-Duty Construction for Maximum Stability
Weighing in at 32 pounds, this vise is built to last. The thick steel frame and precision-engineered components ensure years of reliable use. The 1-inch thick hardwood jaws hold instruments of any shape or size, securely gripping even tapered necks without the need for extra shims.
Flexible Mounting Options
- Mount under your workbench for an 8" vise height
- Mount on top of your bench for a 9-3/4" vise height
- Fits benchtops up to 4-1/2" thick with a sturdy threaded mounting rod and large wingnut
- Drill a 11/16" hole for a clean installation
Upgrade Your Workshop
The Guitar Repair Vise is a central tool for any luthier, making every repair, fretwork, or build project easier and more efficient. Need even more versatility? Bundle it with our ShopStand for a fully adjustable, 360-degree swiveling workstation.
Only at StewMac: Designed by guitar repair professionals for the highest level of precision and ease of use.
BUILT TO LAST A LIFETIME – All StewMac tools are backed by our Lifetime Promise and our Expert Techs are there if you have a question.
Crazy Head
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2025
If youre a luthier or tech or even if you just want to work on your own instruments then you really do need a pattern makers vice. Its worth every penny. Stew Macs version is heavy cast iron with a simple mounting system. It has soft rubber pads on the vice faces and the rotating heads can be tightened if necessary. The screw mechanism is geared perfectly and is fast enough to move heads wide or closed fairly quickly but also geared low enough to get a good tight grip on your work piece. The vice faces are easy to make if you want extras or need different versions. I have some faces Ive made specifically for holding odd pieces tightly. Four wood screws out and you can change the faces quickly and accurately. I would hightly recommend you buy the vice pads from Stewmac. They really inexpensive and work really well.
travis wiseman
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2024
Bolted to my work bench, much better than just laying your guitar on a towel to work on.
John M Wilmink
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2024
This vice will change the way you work! Love the urethane soft jaws. Holds odd shaped things securely and will not leave a mark. Top notch design and execution, worth all the dollars.
john smetana
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2022
the vise works great. it's a keeper.one of the vise's pads doesn't align (vertically) with the other. needs a shim or thrust washer to make them match up. also, the allen screws could use some lock washers. easy fix.all good here.
dpdejohn
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2022
Extremely easy to install. I can’t believe that I have built guitars for so long without this vise.
W. Jones
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2022
I’m guessing I’m unlike most people who buy this vise because I bought it for woodworking and not guitar repair. I’m giving this vise 5 stars because it functions exactly the way I want it to and heck it’s a vise… not a Mercedes. The things that I’d take a star off for if they really bothered me a lot: the paint quality is poor at best, it requires drilling an 11/16th” hole instead of a 1” hole (Who has an 11/16th” bit laying around their shop? Not this guy. Quick trip to Lowes and $5 later and all is well.), the circular handle is annoyingly slippery (I’m gonna add hockey tape to mine to give it some grip). Other than that it’s a solid, versatile, super easy to install vise that holds strong and holds odd shaped things well. What more could you want in a vise?
Ronald F. Paull
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2020
There is a near exact copy of this vice that comes out of mainland China. It's castings are horrible - very rough. This one is made in Taiwan and has very good castings that are nice and smooth with no blow holes or wrinkles. It cost more but is really a pretty nicely made vice.
Jason A. Adams
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2017
I have made a vice from a wood working vise as I have a full metal working shop but for the money and this ain''t cheap it is well worth it. I looked around and found many others but I went ahead and spent the money on it and I am REALLY glad I did.
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