I’m lacking a good hand vice, but I don’t really care for the traditional ones that are hinged since they won’t clamp parallel. Then I came across this elegant design:

The scissor mechanism is as simple as it looks, and judging from the 3D printed model it works very well:

I don’t have anything solid to show off yet as I don’t do much work in the shop during the summer. But I’ll leave it here as inspiration to others.