Grip-on locking pliers are the bee’s knees. Seriously. Grip-on offers a wide selection of locking pliers styles, their prices are fair, and their tools are of superb quality and feel.
Grip-on’s pliers are available with an enamel coating as shown above, or uncoated. The ones we have are uncoated, and are spectacular to use. Grip-on at least to our knowledge, manufactures all of their tools in Spain.
We source our Grip-on tools from Amazon and MSC, but they’re also available via many other distributors and are sometimes rebranded as well.
Grip-on Locking Pliers via Amazon
Grip-on Home Page
Note that ”muy dulce” means “very sweet.” Yep, we’re quite fond of Grip-on.
great locking pliers! I plan on picking up more of these and went to their site after reading your post. There’s a new-ish plier they have out that caught my eye, 122-10 GROOVY GRIP.
Seems like a useful groove that I can count quite a few times in the last 3 months alone those would have been awesome.
There are knock-offs with the same name out there to be careful of. At least I think they’re knock-offs. A search on ebay for “grip-on locking pliers” will turn up a few 4pc sets for about 10 dollars. There’s a slim chance these could be the same grip-on company from Spain, but I highly doubt it.
They do have quite a large selection of different types of locking pliers. I do like the orange color as they would be easier to see. I would be willing to try them as I am always looking for different types.
How do these compare to Vise-Grip locking pliers?
I was in the market for new locking pliers this week, wanted to replace a 10in TW plier and 7in Euro plier that weren’t making me happy, so all I had left was a 75th anniversary USA Vise Grip 7R. I picked up NOS USA Vise Grip 6LN, 7R and 10R in NJ at an independent contractor center and I ordered two pair of Grip-On #131-07 Omnium 7in locking pliers (like those pictured above, in a nickel plated chrome finish) from Amazon, on sale for under $8 but back up to over $20, just got one a few minutes ago via UPS. Immediately I can see and feel this is a much higher quality tool than the Vise Grips. Made in Spain, the fit and finish is precise, they’re a bit lighter than the Vise Grip 7R, there is no wobble to the handle and the jaws are machined straight and true. Speaking of the jaws, these things are HUGE. I was waiting on these to come before I ordered a 10in pair but I think I’ll hold off, these will easily grip an inch and a half. The release action on these pliers really outshines the NOS USA Vise Grips, nearly zero effort required. I’m glad I got two of these on sale, these are easily going to be my new go-to locking pliers, and the NOS USA Vise Grips will likely be neglected but I plan to pick up another 6LN there, because of the price. I don’t want to pay retail for a needlenose Grip-On.
@cannibal I’ve seen the black 4-for-$10 “Grip On” set you speak of and a few red-and-blue handled tool sets with that label. They’re from Grad Rapids Industrial Products, a Harbor Freight-like China tool distributor. Northern Tool carries their line and mislabels their products as American.