Thread: Moxon Vice

Several members on here have threads including examples of Moxon vises. There is a recent thread about benchtop benches that seems to be the next step up from a Moxon. The FWW benchtop requires a bit more work to build than a simple Moxon, but I think it would be worth the effort, especially if you plonk down the $$ for the hardware.

You can build a perfectly functional Dovetailing vise just using purchased threaded rod.

There certainly is some good ideas in those posts, I'll have to have a trawl through them.

I was hoping to find somewhere to purchase the threaded steel rod and handles similar to the hardware in my attached thread without having to purchase from OS.

Still searching

Hi there,

I built mine with thick threaded rod and nuts from Bunnings... Made the handles by embedding the nuts in some of cuts of redgum. Not sure what the thread is but it works great...

Originally Posted by Dazm

There certainly is some good ideas in those posts, I'll have to have a trawl through them.

I was hoping to find somewhere to purchase the threaded steel rod and handles similar to the hardware in my attached thread without having to purchase from OS.

Still searching

Originally Posted by Dazm

There certainly is some good ideas in those posts, I'll have to have a trawl through them.

I was hoping to find somewhere to purchase the threaded steel rod and handles similar to the hardware in my attached thread without having to purchase from OS.

Still searching

Dazm

I am searching for the same sort of hardware and have found:

for the rods: Google "cnc & cupcake world" - look in their CNC Machine section under trapezoidal/acme rods.

for the handles: www.rcsproducts.com.au

This is as far as I have gone!

yvan

Beginnings carry 3/4" threaded rod but I don't know if it is 8tpi. I would have suspected it was a slightly smaller pitch. About 2 weeks ago I got some 1" threaded rod that is 8tpi at a place called Porters Industrial Supply. I don't think they have stores in WA but if you can find a similar supplier, they should have it. If you are okay with metric threaded rod, then any good roofing supplier would have it.

Careful which threaded rod you pick up. The high tensile stuff is ridiculously expensive and I wouldn't think you need high tensile rod. The standard stuff is not expensive and I think it is called something like UMA threaded rod

Originally Posted by TongueTied

Beginnings carry 3/4" threaded rod but I don't know if it is 8tpi. I would have suspected it was a slightly smaller pitch. About 2 weeks ago I got some 1" threaded rod that is 8tpi at a place called Porters Industrial Supply. I don't think they have stores in WA but if you can find a similar supplier, they should have it. If you are okay with metric threaded rod, then any good roofing supplier would have it.

The 3/4" = 10tpi (both UNC and Metric)
1" is 8 tpi as you say.

John

Originally Posted by Dazm

Just wondering if anyone has built something similar to this or is there a kit available in Australia?

BenchCrafted.com - Moxon Vise

I began using a Moxon-type vise about 10 years ago. This was a double screw vise built into the front of my bench using bolts from Bunnings. After Chris Schwarz posted his version of the Moxon vise in 2011, I built one as well, with a few modifications. The details of this are at http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMad...etailVise.html

A year later I had made a few changes: http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMad...rtheMoxon.html



Regards from Perth

Derek

I've got the wood set aside for my Moxon Vise, yet like Derek says in his fine article, it's the prospect of making the 2 wooden vise screws which has delayed the project. I'm delaying the purchase of the screw making kit too because I have other workshop priorities at this time.

I do have the Benchcrafted end vise ready to be installed in my next bench (wood is still drying in the shed). It is a seriously nice thread. I personally couldn't justify the cost of 2 similar screws (and shipping costs) for a Moxon vise as fine as they are.

Texas Heritage Woodworks also make a moxon vise kit which is a cheaper alternative to Benchcrafted;

Moxon Vise — Texas Heritage Woodworks

Do yourself a favour & make your vise a bit more solid than the one shown in the Texas Heritage ad - particularly the back jaw & how it attches to the bench. Even slight rocking of the vise as you saw is off-putting. If you followed the thread where I showed my first attempt at 'moxon, you'll have seen that I went through a bit of faffing around before I got it to work as I wanted.

Using wooden screws is the simplest and in many ways the most satisfying way of making one of these. That is, if you have threading gear or could borrow some for a day or two (I'd gladly help you out if you could only drop by on the weekend, but that would be a little difficult given the distance between us!) You could still make a useful & aesthetically pleasing vise using all-thread. I'd lock a couple of nuts on one end & embed them in a wooden boss with epoxy. Whether it's 10tpi or 8tpi will make very little difference in use. My first vise had one-inch, 6tpi wooden screws, and my current one, which is built into the back of a small bench uses 1 1/2" 4tpi screws. You usually only open these vises a short way, and it only takes about a quarter turn to loosen/tighten, so you won't find yourself doing a lot of winding....

Cheers,

Cheers,

Cheers Ian.

Yeah I think I'm going to end up with a fairly standard vise on my bench and make an "on the Bench" moxon like yours eventually.

Originally Posted by Ghallahad

Texas Heritage Woodworks also make a moxon vise kit which is a cheaper alternative to Benchcrafted;

Moxon Vise — Texas Heritage Woodworks

Interesting. It would be dead easy to whip up a kit using a modicum of welding skills. I might give it a go.

John

Picked up some threaded rod and nuts for under $20, shaped some steel plates from scrap then ran out of time.

John