Acer-Ferrous Toolworks Moxon Vise Kit

Acer-Ferrous Toolworks Moxon Vise Kit

Moxon-style vises are especially useful for raising a workpiece to a comfortable height above your workbench to help facilitate precision sawing of joinery. A Moxon vise is especially useful where sawing is required in the end of a board such as for cutting dovetail joints.

The pair of lovely hard maple bench screws and matching nuts included in this kit are the essential ingredients for making your own affordable all-wooden Moxon vise. You provide the wood for the vise jaws using 4"-wide material at least 1-1/2" thick, and whatever length needed to provide the width capacity you would like for your vise.

The completed vise may be clamped to your workbench using bar clamps or holdfasts.

The bench screws are 1-1/2" in diameter with 4 threads per inch. The handles are octagonal and measure 2" across the flats, which gives plenty of torque for excellent gripping power. Overall length of each screw is approximately 12", with 8" of threaded length and 4"-long handles.

The nuts are 1-1/8" thick and 4" square, and you glue them to your back jaw when the vise is assembled.

Instructions for crafting your jaws and assembling the finished vise are included.

Additional Information

Read Terry Chapman's blog entry detailing his use of this kit to build a Moxon vise

Instructions for Assembling Your Moxon Vise Kit.

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