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Moxon Vise

author-gravatar gareth.lintt Aug 20, 2015

Moxon Vise build for /r/woodworking 2x challenge.

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1 ea, 2"x10"x8'

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About 26" long, 4" and change wide. Cut the rounded edges off.

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Attempting to make flat edges. I need a vise to make my vise.

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Re-sawed my front. I had an idea that required this. Abandoned the idea as impractical, cut another front from my 2x. Apparently buying the 8' 2x10 was a good move.

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Not bragging, but I have big nuts. 3/4"-6 acme threaded rods and nuts.

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Handles, from the same 2x10.

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Handles need knobs though, so off to the lathe with a piece of the 2x10.

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Knobs.

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Almost there. I need more nuts.

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Quick trip to Metal By The Foot (actual business name, pretty good prices and they ship), and now I have four nuts total. And this is the finished product, holding a piece of 2x4 (because 2x-love).

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Bonus: as a quick test, the dovetail on the right was cut using my old school "try and hold it steady with hands and shitty clamps" technique. Took me a while, I went slow and tried to make it neat. On the left I used my new vise, took about 10min, 15 max, used a pencil for marking. It is ugly due to tear out and such, but tighter than the tails on the right. Work holding matters kids. Note that the left dovetail is one of my aborted re-sawn boards from the same 2x10.

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Awesome vise, man! Thanks for sharing.

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