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My first Moxon Vice. I have several metal vices which work great but are too small to securely hold bigger work pieces. I have some Purple Heart left over from this years Chief Transition so I decided to use some for this project. I used MDF as the clamp faces and the "anvil" base plate which I use to place other tools during use. I chose MDF because it is soft enough to prevent damaging the clamped piece and strong enough with hardwood backing to not break under pressure. I used rubber drawer liner for the clamp faces and to provide a non-slip surface to the horizontal base plate. This stuff works pretty good for this application. I milled a small Mango log to make the handles. By the way, Mango smells great once a 3/4", 3 TPI blade digs into it! The two 5/8" bolts are from some old coil over spring compressors I had laying around since forever. I hope to get years of use from this vice! Thanks for viewing.