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• These crazy-long vise-grips can squeeze just as hard as shorter ones, but farther away.

• Vise-Grip Pliers

• With jaws this long the clamping force isn’t very high, but good enough for gluing or positioning welds.

• Mini Vise-Grips

• This is an odd thing, half standard pliers, half locking forceps, and half vise-grip. Not something you see every day, and not as useful as any of the tools it’s a hybrid of.

• These vise-grips are specially designed for holding metal to be welded.

• The same leverage mechanism works for quick, convenient clamping.

• These “Grip-lock” pliers are like automatically adjusting Vise-Grips. Instead of a screw they have a spring-loaded slide that is meant to lock in place at just the right moment so the jaws start exerting pressure when you want them to. Like all such automatic mechanisms, it doesn’t work very well.

• This variation is meant to be bolted to the table of a drill press or milling machine, so it can clamp work down to the table.

• Mini vise-grips are so cute! All are perfectly functional.

• This antique hand clamp, as it’s known, is a sort of predecessor to the vise-grip.

• The Zoidberg of clamps?

• I’m not sure what these are for.

• This is meant for pipes, but a proper pipe wrench, because of its self-tightening properties, can grip better and turn harder than this vise-grip version.

• Most vise-grips you see are off-brand imitations, often not very well made, but some are as good or better than the originals. In fact, the Vise-Grip brand is now made in China, while the original Vise-Grip factory in America was bought by Malto and now sells Vise-Grips under the Eagle Grip brand name. So which is genuine and which is the imitation?

Do you have a better example of this kind of tool? Let me know by leaving a comment, and include a picture of it if you can so everyone can see!