Vise-Grip imitators come and go, but for utility and lasts-forever durability, it's tough to beat the real thing. At left is the classic curved-jaw locking pliers, little changed since 1957.

Everybody needs a machinist vise, and there are plenty of shiny new ones you could buy. Fortunately, there are lots of good, American-made vises available at flea markets, on eBay, and at garage ...

About a century ago, Danish immigrant William Petersen, a blacksmith in Nebraska, patented what he called “Vise Grip Locking Pliers,” and the company he founded, through a circuitous linage ...

Otherwise, the design and its execution is pure Vise-Grip with plentiful alloy steel and good workmanship throughout. It seems to be a lot of tool for $25 to $30.

Harriet Fort, 'last thread' to Vise-Grip, dies at 102 A businesswoman through and through -- even from an early age, Marcia Bergmeyer knew that about her mother.

DeWitt — Employees of Irwin Tools — the maker of Vise-Grip — got the official news Wednesday morning that the plant will close at the end of October.