Not really a vice ... Consider sharpening a chisel on this thing ... or doing anything else for that matter. Nice to look at it though. Reminds me of the early mechanised tin openers. As useful as an ashtray on a motorbike   then again, may be 100 years ago this was the must have cordless power tool kit of the day.

Roy Underhill once described another multi- purpose tool as a ' steampunk spork'. That term has stuck with me and seems appropriate here.

Steve

but does it make julienne fries?  I always think that someone had way too much time on their hands when I see designs like that; but then I'm not much of a fan of multi tools save for my SAK.

@ThomasPowers...Me too on the SAK! Also my 4lb rounding hammer. It's the ultimate multi tool. No moving parts, very low maintenance and makes everything from trivets to tray tables.

You could easily make a rotary cutter and put it in place of the carborundum. get it up to speed and feed the potatoes in a tube towards the cutter. It would spit the chips like 45 rounds out of a tommy gun

I am sure we can place it in the useless inventions ... 

My woodworking teacher liked to say that any combination of two different tools won't do either very well.

Well to argue with myself, (funny thing I always seem to lose), I tell my students that the London pattern anvil is the SAK of anvils with lots of bells and whistles on it.  (And like a SAK you can generally do very well with a plan simple 1 to 2 blade knife and  a simple improvised anvil...)

Looks like something Harbor Freight would make and market for the guy who likes to tinker but isn't really serious about doing anything in particular.  Similar concepts would look ridiculous when applied to say a bathroom where a toilet contraption with accessories attached served as the sink, tooth brush holder, mirror and soap dispenser all in one handy thing secured to your septic with a wax seal   Saves space and for an extra $39.99 you can have a hair dryer/hand drying nozzle!

and you thought you were joking  CLICK HERE

And I thought you would be linking to some prison fixtures...

I hate acronyms, I googled SAK and google didn't have an answer until I typed in knife SAK... duh Swiss Army Knife.

12 hours ago, JHCC said:

My woodworking teacher liked to say that any combination of two different tools won't do either very well.

Mm I would probably disagree with your teacher. He obviously never used L' invincibile ...

Who would have thought something like I joked about really existed?  Thanks Charles!  

Senor Charles,

Your referenced video is  a cardinal example of the old adage,  "there is nothing new under the sun".

Good one, Senor.

SLAG.

You are not the only one who's penny didn't drop with SAK!

For some reason I have been seeing quite a few of this model of multi-vice turning up on various forums and faceache pages......must be the season!

Ditto on both Smoggy. 

On 1/4/2018 at 2:49 PM, Marc1 said:

Consider sharpening a chisel on this thing ...

That's where the Minion comes in to turn the crank for ya...

Sorry about SAKing up the works! On blade and bushcraft forums lots of acronyms evolve about cutlery just to save time or shorten posts. SAK = Swiss Army Knife, GEC = Great Eastern Cutlery, etc. Once you're in a cutlery state of mind you can cypher most of them out but I have been stumped by a few. Years ago a group at the Pentagon called TRADOC started a campaign to convince us lowly soldiers that acronyms were better than regular speak for day to day interpersonal conversation. And they LOVE applying acronyms to weapon systems! Why have a Multi Launch Rocket System when you can just tool around in an MLRS.

PS TRADOC is Training and Doctrine Command

How about Tom Leher's song about the MLF?  I used to sing it to my daughters as a lullaby...

Cold War lullabies may be back in fashion soon! Hope Not!!!

Apologies Marc1 for running off on so many tangents on your thread. I'm easily distracted but every time I pop back in here that little vise/grinder/anvil widget grows on me. Would it be possible to mount a Jacobs type chuck to the spindle the grinding wheel is on and use it as a drill? Either way it's a neat little tool. Also, I could use an ashtray on my motor bike! And a fan for summer time riding :-)