Deadwood Crafted Tools offers this set of C-Clamp locking pliers for an affordable price. You get an 11 inch, a six inch, and a second six inch with rounded, non-swiveling tips to hold larger items.

Locking pliers are often used as compact clamps to hold a workpiece to a surface. Sure, you could use a woodworking clamp or C clamp for this, but those probably won’t fit in your toolbox.

As Wirecutter senior editor Harry Sawyers says, locking pliers “are at the center of a million little labor-saving shortcuts that you pick up one by one over a lifetime of doing projects.” ...

C clamps and locking pliers also help: When woodworking clamps won't work, C clamps and locking pliers will often save the day.

If you plan on properly maintaining your car, you'll want to invest into a pair of hose clamp pliers. See the best hose clamp pliers at AutoGuide.com.

The 20R Locking Chain Clamp/Pipe Wrench Vise-Grip can be hard to find and isn't inexpensive, but will hold large and oddly-shaped objects more securely than any other tool.

Snap a locking pliers or a C-clamp onto the center bracket to hold the torsion tube in the bracket. Then loosen the setscrews on the left and right lift cable drums and disconnect the lift cables.

Summit Racing’s line of affordable pro-level welding accessories includes a welding table, plasma-cutting table, welding table pliers, and fixture accessories.