Remember when you could make fine-tune adjustments with the simple turn of a wheel. The WEN 3.25 in. Cross Vise provides stable support for your workpieces. Perfect for incremental drilling and other precision work. Attach it to your bench top, your drill press, your work table and more. Made from heavy duty powder-coated cast iron, the WEN Cross Vise grips tightly onto your workpieces, providing over 1900 lbs. of clamping force. The 3.25 by 1.25 jaws open up to 3.25 in. W. Make minor adjustments along either axis with the onboard hand wheels. Each hand wheel features machined 0.1 mm increments, each full turn representing 3 mm of travel. The vise moves a full 5.8 in. (148 mm) along the x-axis and 6 in. along the y-axis (150 mm), making it the perfect companion for woodworkers and metalworkers alike. The fixed jaw features a V-shaped groove to hold round objects either vertically or horizontally while the removable handles help users easily install the vise into tight spaces. With five 1/2 in. mounting brackets positioned around the outside edge of the vise’s base, the WEN Cross Vise is compatible with the majority of drill press tables on the market (including the WEN 4210, 4212, 4214, 4225 and 4227 drill presses). And because it’s a WEN product, your cross vise comes backed by a two-year warranty, a nationwide network of skilled service technicians and a friendly customer help line all to make sure you remember WEN.
- 3.25 by 1.25 in. jaws open up to 3.25 in. wide
- Constructed of industrial-strength powder-coated cast iron
- Hand wheels feature machine-marked 0.1 mm increments for maximum precision
- Jaws travel 5.8 in. left and right and 6 in. front and back
- Universal design compatible with the majority of drill presses on the market (see images for base dimensions)
Nicola Renner (verified owner) –
I would have gave it a 4 star witch is still very good, but I took my 30 years as a tool making experience and disassembled it completely deburred all the edges and give all the surfaces a lite stoning and polished the ways. but all in all it is very well made for a inexpensive cross slide vice.
Kathlyn Kunze (verified owner) –
So far so good. But due to the locations of the cranks for the vice and slides, you have to mount at an angle. But it does the job. And a good price for what it is. If i ever need to buy another one will buy this one again.
Maybell Ebert (verified owner) –
Requires some cleanup and tweaking, but an excellent value to add precision x-y to a drill press
Andreane Botsford (verified owner) –
I am pleased with the quality of the vise. It is all iron and steel and very sturdy.
Garrett Medhurst (verified owner) –
Just what I needed to complete some projects.
Jessyca Baumbach (verified owner) –
Great craftsmanship and low priced get no better
Connie Thiel (verified owner) –
Good Product
Payton Von (verified owner) –
It’s usable, with a bit of filing off the burs and sloppy stuff and removing paint in the wrong places and adjustments made i think this thing is probably accurate to .01 inches with some excess of direction change in the axis, which is probably good enough for any drill press it’d be put under. Overall a decent drill press vise but I would look for better if precision tolerances are need
Delphia Leffler (verified owner) –
It needed a little fine tuning, using it to make threads on wood turnings.
Elisa Roberts (verified owner) –
This is a great vise for the price, all you have to do is unpack the vise from the shipping box and attach the two handles, then the two nuts after the handles tighten the nuts and you are ready.I adjusted the slides to make them a little better by tighten or loosing the screws and lock nuts.