My Moxon vise

[Mark Baldwin III]

A shortcoming in my shop has always been workholding for joinery. I built a Moxon vise to take care of that. It is 16" wide to allow a 12" piece to fit between the screws. I used a pair of veneer press screws from Woodcraft. It's ready to go and functional, though I've left off some of the finishing touches until I decide if I want to make any changes.

It clamps tight enough that you can't move the piece without picking up the bench.
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Gotta do some saw practice with the new vise!
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Some of the details are here: http://milwaukeemonastery.blogspot.c...oxon-vise.html
It's not an in-depth build post, as I forgot to take a few key pictures, just some observations that I made along the way.

[Chris Griggs]

Nice work Mark! Good to know that using veneer press screws worked so well. The curly maple looks really nice too.

[Paul Saffold]

Nice Mark. I think you'll find that as handy as a pocket on a shirt. I made a bench-on-bench and have used it more than I thought I would. It's nice having work up higher. Paul

[Zach England]

I hate pockets on shirts. Stuff always falls out of them.

Nice Mark. I think you'll find that as handy as a pocket on a shirt. I made a bench-on-bench and have used it more than I thought I would. It's nice having work up higher. Paul

[Jim Matthews]

That's excellent.

I made mine with pipeclamps and will retrofit with this kind of screw.
Nice to see these things cropping up - it's THE most useful tool in my shop.

Yours looks complete, to me. The only thing I've seen added to this basic design is leather jaw pads - I'm not sure they need be permanent, just slipped in for softer boards.

[Jim Koepke]

I hate pockets on shirts. Stuff always falls out of them.

This used to always happen to my cell phone until a friend showed me his trick.

Slice up an ear plug into 1/8 - 3/16" thick pieces and use crazy glue to adhere 5 or 6 of the pieces to the back of the phone.

Since doing that, my cell phone hasn't jumped out of my pocket.

jtk

[Mark Baldwin III]

I buy shirts with buttoned pockets.
Anywho, thanks for the kind words. It's nice to get a project done, even if it a small one. The finishing that I have in mind is really some basic stuff. The end grain on the front chop needs to finished off, a few chamfers added, etc. I've been thinking about making a small extension off the back side that may help support a small piece for marking.

[George Vincent]

I just completed a Moxon Vice using the plans from Bench Crafted for a Double-Screw Vise utilizing 3/4" threaded rod and 1/2" plumbing tees with modified wooden handles made from 3/4" dowel and 1-1/4" cabinet knobs fastened with dowel pins.






The fixed jaw is 36" long x 5-3/8" and the front jaw is 32" long x 5-1/2" with 24" between the rods. The extra 1/8" in height on the front jaw allows easy placement on the bench front.

It can be held in place with either a holdfast or bar clamps.

[Tony Parent]

I made mine with pipeclamps and will retrofit with this kind of screw.

I've been thinking of building one of these using pipe clamps. It seems like a good alternative that gives you a "quick release" feature for when you are changing thicknesses. There is an episode of the Woodwright's shop where Mr. Schwarz shows other uses then just dovetailing, so changing thicknesses would be done fairly often.

Are you planning on retrofitting because the pipe clamps just don't work well? Or is it more to get a more traditional look? I'm interested in understanding the issues with the pipe clamp approach.

Thanks

[Tony Parent]

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Dude, your dovetails are way too tiny.

Just kidding, nice work. From looking at your blog posting, it looks like you will only use this for dovetails right? Or at least only on the front of the bench...