Holding the work · review
A 10 kg (22 lb) beech vice station that clamps to any surface — and the only product in this group that is cheapest in the United States.
The end of it The right answer for anyone without room for a bench, provided you buy the clamps at the same time.
Every figure is a manufacturer specification, read off the listing itself, and the judgments are ours — drawn from how the specification behaves in this class of machine and from what long-term owners consistently report. Where a figure is missing, we say so rather than fill it in.
A smart mobile workstation in solid beech, part number SJO-33309. Maximum jaw opening 110 mm (4.33 in), weight 10 kg (22 lb). Sjöbergs states the requirement directly: one or two clamps are needed to fix it to a surface, and it is intended for people who have to work to a high standard while remaining mobile.
A bench is judged on one thing: whether the workpiece stays where you put it while you apply force to it. Mass resists the force, a flat top gives you a reference, and the vice or clamping system does the gripping. Everything else — storage, wheels, folding — is convenience, and convenience is nearly always bought by giving up one of the first three.
That trade is the whole choice in this category. A listing that publishes a weight and a clamping capacity is telling you more than one that publishes a color.
It means the workstation supplies the vice and the reference surface, and whatever you clamp it to supplies the mass. On a solid kitchen table that works well; on a folding table it does not, and the whole assembly will rock under a hand plane. Choose the surface as carefully as you chose the station.
That is enough for the leg of a chair, a drawer side, most joinery components, and a good deal of what a full-size bench vice is used for day to day. It is a genuine capacity figure, published, which puts this listing ahead of most of the workbench category.
€215 in the United States, €249 in Germany, €250 in Britain, €275 in France, €292 in Italy, €296 in Spain. One reference and one barcode across all six markets.
Everywhere else on this page, an American price well above the European ones means an import listing. This is the one product where the direction is reversed, and it is worth saying so: American readers get the best price on this item without leaving home.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-08-12. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Construction | Solid beech |
|---|---|
| Maximum jaw opening | 110 mm (4.33 in) |
| Weight | 10 kg (22 lb) |
| Fixing | One or two clamps to any surface — not supplied |
| Part number | SJO-33309 |
| Amazon reference | B017Y451LC (identical on 6 markets) |
| EAN | 7316703309108 |
No, and the distinction matters. The search asked for a Sjöbergs vice and the listing is the Smart Workstation Pro, a portable beech workstation that provides a vice and a small clamping surface. It gives you the holding function of a bench without the mass or the top.
Sjöbergs states the condition plainly: one or two clamps to fix it to whatever surface you are using. Those are not in the box. Until it is clamped down it will move, and a vice that moves is not a vice.
We do not know, and it is the reverse of the pattern everywhere else on this page — American listings for European workshop tools are usually import prices well above the local ones. Here amazon.com is €215 against €249 in Germany and €296 in Spain. If you are in the United States, this is the one product in this group you should buy at home.
A listing is not an offer: the reference exists on these stores, availability changes daily.
8.1/ 10
The right answer for anyone without room for a bench, provided you buy the clamps at the same time.
Working properly away from a fixed bench — a kitchen table, a site, a small flat
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for woodworking machines and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
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Best for: A small or shared space where the bench has to disappear between jobs
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