7-Inch Yost M7WW Rapid-Acting Woodworking Vise

Judy Kerkeslager: The vise is quite sturdy and looks like it will be very accurate. When examining it I saw that during transit the backstop was bent and seperate from the vise. The sprocket that held it on was broken and the Wavy washer was missing. How can I get these pieces replaced?

United States on Nov 12, 2023

Josh R: reminds me of shop class 30 years ago. best vice ive used since then. Something like this could be brand new or 100 years old, would be hard to tell the difference. Buy this one!

United States on Oct 11, 2023

JG: This is a great vise for a woodworkers bench. Extremely well built, very durable. Takes help to hold up while marking to mount cuz it’s soo well made and awkward to hold by yourself, but overall it’s easy to mount. Fantastic quality I am a woodworker, general contractor for 45 years and the Yost vises are outstanding!

United States on Sep 05, 2023

bma24: Well made, tright tolerances.

Canada on Jun 05, 2023

Baloo: Ça rempli toutes mes attentes.

Canada on Feb 15, 2023

Dale: The dog is very cheap and poor fitting. I had to grind the top to line up with my bench but for the price you can’t go wrong.

Canada on Dec 06, 2021

bobbob: I just got this today. I probably won't get to use it for its intended purpose for a while, but since I already installed it on my work bench I thought it would be worth sharing my observations. As I get further into woodworking there are times when you want to lock something down solid without damaging it. My big mechanic's vice is not the tool for that, even if I put something soft in the jaws. So I figured I'd get one of these woodworker's vises. I doubt I'll be doing any fine planing or other stuff like that, but I do work on a lot of things that need holding, so I thought this would be a good investment. I just was not sure what size to get. I'm a go big or go home type, so I was tempted to get the 10" version. Now I'm thinking I probably could have gotten by with the 7". The 9" is a monster. I think it will be good for anything I throw at it

The vise seems well made. The screw is smooth and the quick release takes a bit of a squeeze to engage, but it works well too. I knocked it down a star because after I installed the vise it seems to consistently close with a slight gap on the right side. The gap goes away when you tighten it up, so maybe this is just the way these...

United States on Jun 09, 2020

WoodworkingWolf: was able to install without a hitch. The spindle machining is very rough and could have benefited from a sharper cutter to prevent galling. But still it is currently , as delivered relative tight and it will probably take years to develop any slop.
This vise is virtually identical to a comparable Eclipse vise at half the price. The only beef I have is that there is a little radial play in the front face so it does not stay parallel with the fixed face,
I have several woodworking vises in my shop from high end to utility , this one works as well .
one thing I recommend is, use good quality double-sided tape for attaching hardwood yaw/ work piece protectors. This also allows you to plane the top of the now hardwood yaws flush with the top of your workbench and compensate somewhat for the radial play in the moving yaw

Canada on Feb 16, 2020

Amazon CustomerAmazon Customer: I researched for months looking for a new vice for my, newly completed, Paul Sellers inspired workbench. I watched eBay trying to pick up an old, English made, Record vice but wasn’t jazzed about spending over $200 for a rusty project. Having owned and used my Wilton vice for the last five years, I wanted to try a “Record clone” quick-release vise like Paul suggests. I narrowed my vice down to this York vise, the current Record vise and the Eclipse. In a snippet I found online, Mr. Sellers cautioned against purchasing the current Record model because of problems he had experienced. To be fair, he also cautioned against the York vise because of problems he had experience with his woodworking class using these vises. That left me leaning towards the Eclipse but I kept thinking “is it really worth double the price?“ The reviews on the York were all over the board but overall, they seemed more positive than negative. I have no issue spending $200 on a vise that I can use for the next 20 years. Every single vise brand had a certain amount of negative reviews. I finally decided that if this vise showed up and looked horrible or the jaws didn’t align or the screw mechanism or...

United States on Jan 30, 2020

Canoneer: Excellent copy of a Record vice.....and priced VERY nicely at this time.
Castings were a tiny bit rough but nothing that was going to interfere with it's smooth and easy operation. In my case I had to drill out the 2 front cast bolt holes slightly larger to accommodate my choice of 5 inch carriage bolts although 4 inch would have done in a pinch.
Someone had mentioned a stiff quick-release arm but mine was silky smooth.
Another reviewer mentioned a discrepancy in the mounting points but these are BELOW the mounting surface and do not in any way interfere with the vice's ease of mounting or it's final resting place.
A quick greasing of the main gear was all I had to do after I flush-mounted it to my bench.
As it mounts beneath an existing bench the thickness of the bench-top needs to be approximately 2 3/8 inch and the cut-back notch for the stationary side of the vice about 1/2 inch or so.
Easy to install and rock solid when it's completed.

Canada on Nov 19, 2016