Todays Woodworking project is this cheap and easy Moxon bench vise that you can knock out
in no time at all.
todays woodworking project is this moxon style bench vise this is a great little vise pretty
cheap to make it cost me $27 - $28 for all the parts not including the wood for the wood
i just used some hardwood i had lying around some Australian Brush box but you could use
anything just get some plywood laminate it together it will cost you nothing even just
some 2" x 6" boards would be fine as well there a couple of little cheap options its
better than selling your kidney for those standard moxon vice bench vise kits that you
get around the place nice little simple handles that you can turn on pretty fast its quiet
sturdy when something is in there its staying in there so I'm quiet happy with this little
project so stick around and we will knock this thing out.
All you need for this project is some wood some washers some bolts some nuts and some
threaded rod
now this piece of wood i have picked it does have a cup in it so what I'm going to do is
use my hand plane just to get it out and smooth it up so got my dog holes here with little
bench vises we can just quickly wind this on I'm just going to use a straight edge and
a pencil to measure my progress
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I'm just going to use a Grr-ripper and a grip block if you haven't seen a grip block these
are another product from Microjig they have these little drop down feet so when you push
it down they drop on and catch the wood and push it through make life nice and easy for
you and nice and safe so you get to keep your fingers.
okay now that Ive got the 2 pieces milled to the same size and dimensions and there
nice and flat I'm just going to make a mark 4" in and 1.1/2 inches up and thats going
to be thats where we will drill the holes for our bolts
okay before we take it to the drill press I'm just going to use some double sided tape
to stick these two together so they don't move.
For the bolts i am using 3/4" threaded rod so I've drilled the hole there but i have't
gone all the way through what I'm going to do is just use the point of the forstner bit
and just to finish all the way through and then I'm going to come at it from the other
side with a bigger forstner bit which is going to mount the bolt that will bind these 2 together
okay now I'm just going to line up the larger forstner bit which is going to help seat this
with the little hole we have drilled from the other side.
okay now i've drilled out the holes so what were going to do just get our threaded rod
with the bolt on the end and drop it through and you can see it just sits a little bit
larger than the hole so all we will do is trace around it.
okay using a really sharp chisel I'm just going to go around and widen this hole.
I'm just going to use my trusty little veritas low angle block plane and I'm just going to
take the corners off all the inside bits on the vise just like incase there is a little
bit of racking or something like that when i clamp the vise I'm not going to get dents
in my wood.
so what I've done is just cut another little rail that sits flush with the front of my
vice with the front of my bench this is the vice that we cut out our nuts are going to
go here and they will get pushed against that wood so i want it to sit flush with the top
of my bench so what I'm going to do is just use the other piece to line it up so I've
just drilled a little hole with the forester bit that the bolt head can just sit in there
so it does not protrude out and scratch your work piece and now we can just go all the
way through with a normal drill bit.
okay now I've go the backing plate mounted to my bench and its super strong its not going
anywhere the next thing we need to do is drill through for the hole for the threaded rod
just drill through the rail which will act as a bit of extra support as well so just
a 3/4" or 19mm bit
okay for the handles what I've done is got the treaded rod and a friend to weld the nut
on to the end of it so we can use that the same as we did in the back of the vise so
i will just chisel it out and this will become the handle and we will carve some sort of
a shape out of this to make it look a little bit neater there are lots of options you can
use for your handles you could weld a couple of little pieces of bar on the sides there
that would work pretty well and if you have access to a gate valve for a irrigation pipe
they would work really well I'm just going to go wood i just want it to look sort of
you know wood worky okay now I've chiselled out the holes to accept the the nuts and I've
just drawn a little bit of a diamond pattern nothing to fancy on there and I've taken this
opportunity put the vise together just using a spanner to tighten it up and seems to be
holding things pretty well which is good I'm just going to cut it off with a hand saw this
is a Japanese pull handsaw rather than a traditional saw which cuts on the push this one cuts on
the pull its also a different style of handle it quiet comfortable to use try it out if
you see one.
okay so i cut these out with the saw and then just did a bit of shaping on the disk sander
so up with a just a nice simple shape that i like I've just drilled a 3/4" hole here
for a piece of dowel which will suit as our handle i want the handle be actually able
to rotate in this hole as well so i can hang on to it and just crank it pretty quickly
all I've done just got a coin drilled a hole in it screw screw it in and there you go so
when i turn it that will move freely
okay now all we gotta do is epoxy the threaded rod into that so what i normally do is get
some kitchen grease proof paper this is also handy if you want to wrap it around the bars
on your clamps and things like that when your glueing up to stop mess its good you know
does not stick to anything so glue come off easy its cheap to get rid of so all you do
is you just you have a A and B part you mic these 2 together in equal parts I've gone
for the 5 minute quick epoxy as well quick stir
okay now I'm just going to apply a little bit of finish i wasn't going to go to crazy
with it what i was going to use was some of this woodsheen which is just a mixture of
i think its beeswax and tung oil just gives nice sort of lustre and i think it will look
good on the front of the vise obviously you don't put anything on the inside of the vise
because you don't want that transfer to your wood WOW that looks pretty good.
this WoodSheen might be my new favourite wood finish look at that that i don't know if you
can see it that really shinny and it bought a lot of the shine out in the wood i like
it.
okay so the last thing to do is put it all together so what I've done just got a couple
of washers on the treaded rod line it up with the big hole.
thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed this nice little project it came out quiet well
I'm very happy with it the handles work quiet well we've got some more woodworking videos
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