I did a lot of research and looking around before I settled on this particular vise. I put a lot of credit into the reviews that others wrote about their experience with all the vises that I looked at, with this vise having the most favorable reviews. With that said I received exactly what I expected, It has great down force, a good finish and operates smoothly. I knew from others reviews that the corners would be sharp and needed to be stoned and there might be some casting voids. There were a couple underneath that were not a cause for concern. The other thing I expected and it makes no sense as to why the mfg of the vise would do this, is a raised pad where the indicator mark should be for the degrees of rotation. No mark and the pad is raised 1/8" of the surface of the degrees marks. even if the mark would have been there it would have basically been useless as the surface was to high to get a good read. This surface needs to be lowered and a indicator mark added. Other than that a great vise.
pierluigi 
