Real Avid Master Gun ViseAnyone who knows Real Avid knows they make serious tools for gun work. The Master Gun Vise was a tool made for anyone needing a third hand, and it happens to have a vice. So, Real Avid designed this from the user's perspective, and here at Charlie's we are sold. Now, the price tag is not cheap, but it is not unaffordable either. This vice allows the home or professional armorer to move the gun into the position, lock it there, and work on it, like nothing we have seen before.
Tested in the field with military and police armorers, the Real Avid Master Gun Vise is very close to a must-have. Great for the professional, or the gun enthusiast at home. Perfect for gift. There is no way this gift gets returned.
The Real Avid Master Gun Vise is a bench vise made for guns and gun tools. Whether you’re building and customizing, repairing and cleaning or mounting scopes and accessories, this vise improves every part of the GUN DIY experience. Quickly reposition your gun to any orientation without ever removing it from the vise. Insert the Torq-Lok pin for applying heavy force. Use the removable and reversible Gun-Fit jaw sleeves for a specific gun grip, or turn the leveling knob for simple scope mounting and leveling. Build. Customize. Repair. Mount. Clean.
Work the way you want to work! The base of the vise features an articulating ball and socket joint with the adjustable Speed-Cam Lever that applies pressure to the joint, allowing the vise and gun to be positioned and repositioned in any orientation the user desires. Although the amount of adjustable compression applied with the Speed-Cam to the ball and socket joint is substantial, an additional element has been added to the vise called the Torq-Lok pin for heavy torque applications. This removable pin intersects the ball and socket joint, locking it into the base. The locking pin can be inserted every 90 degrees with the vise in either the vertical or horizontal position and stored in the base when not in use.
As Tom McHale wrote in American Handgunner Magazine, “I use this setup more than anything as an extra pair of hands…the Real Avid Master Gun Vise is, bar none, the handiest tool on my bench. It’s great for cleaning, repairing, tinkering, installing, inspecting, assembling, and disassembling. Heck, you can even use it to mount optics with the precision leveling knob.”
The top half is a conventional shop vise with a twist. The jaws are hardened steel that could damage a gun part you chucked into them. However, the Master Vise comes with a pair of the neatest reversible Gun-Fit jaw sleeves that slip over the top. These reversible appendages are grooved on one side and thickly padded on the other. They are rigidly secured in place via four heavy pins.
The padded side of the Gun-Fit jaws will grab most anything safely and gently. You control the gripping pressure with the vise lever. In this configuration, the vise will not mar sensitive wood or fine metal components.
Two critical tools for building guns, in particular AR15’s, are upper and lower vise blocks. Sold separately, the adjustable Smart-Fit® AR15 Lower Vise Block and the Lug-Lok™ Upper Vise Block (available in two versions, AR15 and AR10) integrate seamlessly with the vise jaws and firmly lock into place. The jaw plates have a recess along the lip that perfectly matches the Smart-Fit side profile providing extra hold. The Lug-Lok holds firm with the help of the dual-purpose Gun-Fit pins that intersect the vise jaws and the Lug-Lok eliminating slippage within the jaws when applying heavy torque to barrel nuts and muzzle devices.
Read the review in The Armory Life by Will Dabbs
