Three Vises.
One Standard.
Self-centering, double station, and LiteVise™ — three vise families built around one idea: the right workholding shouldn’t slow you down. Pick by part and run size, and every one drops onto the same 96mm zero-point grid.
One family.
Three ways to clamp.
Any machinist who's run mills long enough knows no single vise handles every job right. Drop a billet in for a 5-axis part and it had better land dead-center on its own — there's no time to indicate it in, and on a good raw-stock setup there shouldn't be a need to. Run a tray of small parts and you want two stations clamped up, not one, so every cycle pulls off two finished pieces instead of babysitting a single part all day. And if that vise is coming on and off the table all shift — moving to a different machine, over to the CMM, wherever — tonnage stops being the main concern and what it does to an operator's shoulder by 3pm starts to matter a lot more.
That’s why 5th Axis builds three vise families instead of one. Self-Centering vises put your stock on center automatically, every time. Double Station vises split one body into two independent clamps so you machine more parts per cycle. LiteVise™ trades steel mass for aluminum and keeps almost all the clamping force.
All three mount to the same 52mm and 96mm zero-point grid, so switching vise types on a machine doesn’t mean re-tooling the table — just picking the vise that fits the part in front of you.
Match the Vise to the Part.
Every model in the lineup shares the same 52mm or 96mm zero-point mounting standard, then specializes for the job in front of it.
Finds the center of the billet for you.
Both jaws ride on a single left- and right-hand leadscrew, so every turn of the handle closes them toward the same centerline — no measuring, no shimming, no guessing where the stock actually sits.
The current X-Series hardware moved jaw mounting from two bolts to four, which raised clamping force and rigidity about 30% over the original design while keeping the same footprint. A keyed truck and dowel pin hold that accuracy from vise to vise.
- 5,620 lbf clamping force
- Sizes from a 52×75mm mini vise up to 125.7×254mm
- Reversible, quick-change jaw configurations
The Double Vise: two parts, one cycle.
A fixed center jaw splits the body into two independent clamping stations. Friction pins let each side move on the leadscrew on its own, so both stations reach full clamping force even when stock size varies slightly from part to part.
Need one big part instead of two small ones? Reverse the jaws and the same vise runs as a single station with extended range. Serrated jaw teeth grip stock under HRC 35; a built-in dovetail option holds harder material without a stamping machine.
- Small, medium, and large bodies from 75×150mm to 125.7×258mm
- Hard, machinable aluminum, or machinable steel jaws
- Reversible jaws convert double station to single station
Steel-vise force, a fraction of the weight.
LiteVise™ swaps a solid steel body for a high-strength aluminum alloy with integrated steel wear rails — the surfaces that actually take the load stay hardened steel, while everything else sheds mass.
The result is a vise that's 50–70% lighter than a traditional steel vise but still delivers up to 4,500 lb of clamping force. That matters most on multi-vise setups, pallet systems, and any job where an operator is lifting and repositioning vises by hand all shift.
- Up to 4,500 lb clamping force
- 50–70% lighter than comparable steel vises
- Compact footprint for dense multi-vise setups
Pick by the part, not the catalog.
Each vise answers a different question about the job in front of you. Here's the quick read on when each one wins.
Need true center: self-centering.
Need double the parts: double station.
Need less weight: LiteVise™.
Side by side.
The numbers that actually decide which vise belongs on your table.
Tell us the part.
We'll tell you the vise.
Send your part size, run volume, and machine — we'll help you land on self-centering, double station, or LiteVise™, and spec the jaws and pull studs to go with it.