re: Another shoutout for Jeff at Fret Shack/Coil Shack. Brand new set of humbuckers for my LP

It's a modified Shop Fox gunsmith vise. I mounted soft pine "ears" inside the vise arms with recessed wood screws, and there is a bridge of soft tanned leather draped over and between the ears, like a soft hammock for a guitar neck. My two bench vises (the other is from StewMac) ARE my apprentices and they are worth their weight in moon rock to me - I simply could not do my work without them.

If I attempt to overtorque anything in the vise, the pine ears will break away before anything gets crushed or even marred. And I get to remind myself to not overtorque things as I stop what I was doing to fabricate new soft pine ears.