Difference between a Shars and Kurt vise
 

http://www.shars.com/products/view/5...Machine_ Vise

http://www.kurtworkholding.com/manua...1204-l-en.html

Has anyone ever compared them to see what is better about the Kurt
vise? I have a Shars vise and want to know what I am missing. THanks

i

Difference between a Shars and Kurt vise
 

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Ignoramus8104 wrote:

http://www.shars.com/products/view/5...ecision_Millin
g_Machine_Vise

The Shars vise looks like the $90 vise I bought and refitted some time
ago. See "Clone 4" Kurt-style Mill Vise Acquired" in March and February
2010 in RCM.

Joe Gwinn

Difference between a Shars and Kurt vise
 

On Mar 26, 2:01*pm, Ignoramus8104
wrote:
http://www.shars.com/products/view/5...k_Down_Precisi...

http://www.kurtworkholding.com/manua...1204-l-en.html

Has anyone ever compared them to see what is better about the Kurt
vise? I have a Shars vise and want to know what I am missing. THanks

i

I don't have the shars, copy, (I have 2 Kurt vises I got on enco sale
10 years ago), I got a bison brand (not the polish company) copy from
penntool. Reading the shars info they took words from kurts
documentation like 80,000 psi ductile iron body (shars 80,000 lbs of
ductile iron typo). What I'm not seeing directly in the kurt web site
is any mention of "Groove lock" a workstop system that is very handy.
They don't even show the machined groove in the back jaw that this
clamps into in any of the vise photos. This is patented by kurt.
Their Anglock patent must have timed out, as the shars vise and bison
copy are claiming this same feature.

I don't know that the workstop feature is worth $250 as there are
other methods of clamping a workstop to the bit of jaw that stands
above the vise body.

penntool link to kurt for $400
http://www.penntoolco.com/catalog/pr...ategoryID=2514

ignator