I just use a large, ancient, swivel-base Craftsman bench vise that is mounted on an open corner of my workshop countertop. I cut some wooden vise jaw inserts out of plywood that I further pad with a folded up green wool Leupold scope "mat" that used to come with new scopes. Doesn't damage the stock, steel components or bows when I clamp them to work on them. Even built some offset wood blocks to get things further away from the countertop when necessary. Rarely a day goes by that the vise doesn't serve as the stable third hand for some cleaning, repair or fabrication job.
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