Moxon Vise

This Looks So Cool, So many Ideas on Here(LJ’s) !!!!

-- Pat - Worker of Wood, Collector of Tools, Father of one

Brandon,

I really really like what you have come up with. Thank you for sharing this. It’s sweet.

-- Bill Native Texan

This is on my build list. Love the choice of hardware in particular.

-- Don't anthropomorphize your handplanes. They hate it when you do that. -- OldTools Archive

Smitty, the hardware isn’t as pretty as the Benchcrafted kit, but it’s 1/4 of the price and easier to install. :-)

-- "hold fast to that which is good"

Pretty is as pretty does. Great job.

Nice idea for a wide vise. Nice job.

-- LIVE, LAUGH, CUT WOOD.

I like it. The only improvement I would make to the design is to make the front chop 1/2” wider than the back one with the extra 1/2” on the bottom. With the vise fully closed, that would allow you to use the front edge of your workbench to register the vise when clamping it in place. But what you have there should work great, this would just be a convenience feature.

- Ken.

Looks good, may it serve you well.

Thanks for the suggestion, Ken. I hadn’t thought of that, but I think it’d work well.

-- "hold fast to that which is good"

Nice job Brandon. You can’t beat a nice twin screw.

-- Andy -- Old Chinese proverb say: If you think something can't be done, don't interrupt man who is doing it.

Thanks Andy. I wonder if anyone has tried building one of these things using the Veritas Twin Screw vise—if that’s even possible.

-- "hold fast to that which is good"

I really like this and I just happen to have that hardware sitting in a drawer right now. I smell a project coming on!

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I say go for it! The only real change I would make would be to make a section on the inner chop extended on the sides for better clamping with an F clamp. If you choose to attach it to your workbench using holdfasts, than this doesn’t really matter.

-- "hold fast to that which is good"