Nice job. It was good to see you doing it all by hand, no fancy power tools.. just like my dad taught me. He didn't even have an electric drill. Drilled all holes with a hand brace. Time wasn't a factor then, everything now has to done yesterday.
Awesome! I just made one and it looks a lot like yours. No outriggers but holds things solid! I put in some springs and round hand wheels with knobs. Super handy option for the bench that you can add when you need it.
Excellent James! No screaming machines just the sighing sound of a hand plane making shavings. Could you pin the handles to the screw shaft and then let the screw extend out the back of the vice. That would replicate your wood version closer. Take care and stay well.
As always, a relaxing blast to watch. I made a moxon vise near the beginning of lockdown with some scrap hardwood lumber, long bolts and other things I had around & it is a great project to do. Turned out very similar to yours except for the turning handles, where I created my own handles and embedded the bolt head in the handle, and I didn't have the sliding dovetail pieces.
Great hand work! You could make the screws not sticking out on the work side if you wanted to, just use the doble nut with the wing nut on one end or lock it with a weld spot, then you can use the one embedded on the wood for the worm to adjust. It may make it more handy and easier to tighten up...
You really enjoy working with wood,that's why i love you video!they inspire me to keep trying working with wood and have the same enjoyment as you do!gretting from puerto rico!!
Looks great James! I am trying to decide what to do about a work surface/table. Doing a moxon vice instead of a dedicated face vise is definitely part of the equation after watching this.
I made one of those a few weeks ago out of scrap red oak from work. I attached the screws to the wood knobs because I knew I would catch my hips and pockets on the protruding screws. Causing much murmuring and gnashing of teeth.
I don't know about James, but for me working with hand tools is a way of meditation and calming my mind. It's not so much having a finished product made by the fastest or easiest way. It's all about the process of making itself.
Personally, in a lot of ways I find hand tools faster than power. Or almost just as quick. Less setup time, less jigs to use, and far far less safety features to work around/get in the way. Yes the actual operation is slower... usually. But the. Overall process isn't as much slower as you'd think.
@@akadventurer7563 Setting up the square for your tablesaw versus just taking it over to the bench and cutting it even set up for Minor so I can take a minute if you’re being careful much faster just to do it by hand unless you’re doing multiple boards with the same cutting set up
Could you use pine like 2x4 for this? Or is hardwood better for the vise? Cheap like poplar or oak, or exotic wood like purple heart? Woodcraft always seems to have this on sale. Is each vise jaw about 1.5" thick? thx
the harder the wood the longer it will last, but the softer the wood the les chance of denting the work. for me I would go with something at least as hard as cherry or harder.
No ACME screws is a dealbreaker for me. An easy set of screws for a moxon kit is to tear down a black and decker benchmate. Gets you a moxon vise with, if you want, a 4-6 inch opening, acme threaded rods and even tho they are usually plastic, decent threaded anchors/nuts that will take a surprising amount of punishment (ACME threads, need I say more). You can usually get busted ones for $20.
How about putting the locking nut on the handle? Then the bolt would not be sticking out the front. You may have to put a plate on the back bolt to keep it locked in place.
Hi James, just before I clicked on your video I was watching one from a master Chinese joiner (you would have loved it) but the tools he used although they were all hand tools were so sharp your look dull in comparison. He does not use glue or any metal fasteners and he produce joints that were just incredible.
What are you using to go from brace to wood owl auger bit? My 3 jaw brace will work with the smaller augers in softwood but start slipping with the bits bigger than 1". I'm currently using a 1/2" socket T-handle and a socket to drive the large augers and huge wood owl forstner bits when I don't want to bring around battery powered stuff but a larger swing brace and a tapered square to wood owl sized hex would help with the large augers. I saw someone made a 3/8" square drive to tapered square brace adapter but yours being one piece is preferable. edit: nevermind, just found your tool recommendations page
instead of locking two nuts together in the back, take one and lock it into the hand-wheel. that way the hand-wheel and thread move together and the rest of the thread goes out the back.
I read "moron vice kit" I'm like, oh, so: drugs, alcohol, and random dangerous things? And he's going to make a nice wooden box to hold it all together
Then you would like the second channel. This channel is just for the easy watching average RUclipsr. The second channel is where all the teaching is done. every time there is a video on this channel there is also a video on the other channel where I talk through the whole project.
Yes. The purpose of the Moxon vice is not to replace the vice on your bench or to be the main vice. It is to raise the work up another 6 in or so higher making it easier to see when doing endgrain joinery such as dovetails. I use it very rarely but when I do it's incredibly handy.
Hi again, I just used your link to go to the moxon vice kit and it was nice until I got to shipping, because I live in the UK the shipping was almost twice the cost of the kit. I would not pay that much for the kit on principle, we are supposed to be in a world market and yet people think it is alright to pile on the cost because it is going to another country, not only was the shipping expensive but further investigation showed that on top of the shipping costs there would be another cost of import duty of another £40:00 that brings the cost of the kit to over four times the actual cost of the item. No wonder buying from the USA is not an option.
Yep. That's a problem of international shipping. They're just so many charges and other costs. Not to mention the plane to fly it over the ocean. For most things it's just not cost effective.
Looking at the old confirmation email, I see that I paid $80.92 for shipping and handlig of this kit and a few other smaller things like screws. Before import duties, customs handling fee and 25% VAT of course. I have sort of given up worrying about shipping costs like these. If I buy something here in Norway (and you cannot find much of anything here that isn’t made of plastic in China) the retailer will have added a similar cost in shipping and VAT. It comes out almost the same. If you want something you have to pay what it costs. Still, I should probably open the box soon. It’s been over a month since it arrived. 😂
Buy some 22 mm all thread, some nuts and make one. You can get four 12mm bolt cut the heads off , round hex on grinder to make speed nuts. It should not cost much to have bolts welded to 22mm nuts at angle.
Odd to watch what I thought was a video I hadn’t seen and then find my own old comment here. Happens to me a lot actually. Anyways, I’ve started building mine. Spent three days on it so far and in fact I thought I was mostly done. But now I’m thinking that I might add a small table with bench dogs to the back piece. My workbench doesn’t have any other vise. As for the fancy imported specialty hardware and hardwood, I just saw huge bolts and nuts like this at a store here for very little money. Didn’t think you could buy anything like that here, only small construction screws. I’ve found maple here as well. Pricy but at least I don’t have to add overseas shipping and VAT like I did before.
Nice job. It was good to see you doing it all by hand, no fancy power tools.. just like my dad taught me. He didn't even have an electric drill. Drilled all holes with a hand brace. Time wasn't a factor then, everything now has to done yesterday.
Awesome! I just made one and it looks a lot like yours. No outriggers but holds things solid! I put in some springs and round hand wheels with knobs. Super handy option for the bench that you can add when you need it.
Love the sound of woodworking with no power tools. Great background music. Very relaxing, thanks!
Excellent James! No screaming machines just the sighing sound of a hand plane making shavings. Could you pin the handles to the screw shaft and then let the screw extend out the back of the vice. That would replicate your wood version closer. Take care and stay well.
Thanks very much. I’ve always wanted to build a Moxon Vise and now I know how to build it. Thanks again
Showing off that Ring huh big boy lol Enjoy'd the vid.
As always, a relaxing blast to watch.
I made a moxon vise near the beginning of lockdown with some scrap hardwood lumber, long bolts and other things I had around & it is a great project to do. Turned out very similar to yours except for the turning handles, where I created my own handles and embedded the bolt head in the handle, and I didn't have the sliding dovetail pieces.
Great hand work! You could make the screws not sticking out on the work side if you wanted to, just use the doble nut with the wing nut on one end or lock it with a weld spot, then you can use the one embedded on the wood for the worm to adjust. It may make it more handy and easier to tighten up...
You really enjoy working with wood,that's why i love you video!they inspire me to keep trying working with wood and have the same enjoyment as you do!gretting from puerto rico!!
Looks great James! I am trying to decide what to do about a work surface/table. Doing a moxon vice instead of a dedicated face vise is definitely part of the equation after watching this.
very very nice work
All by hand, great work
That is how we roll here. Not the fastest. But sure is fun!
WoW James....... Just in time for St. Valentines day! Sarah will be so pleased you thought of her . Rusty
Beautiful piece my friend
I made one of those a few weeks ago out of scrap red oak from work. I attached the screws to the wood knobs because I knew I would catch my hips and pockets on the protruding screws. Causing much murmuring and gnashing of teeth.
how good you are, here you learn many things.
Beautiful, James! Nicely done! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Nice videography here, and a very tidy build.
Thanks. Luke does a phenomenal job shooting videos.
love it, how do you find the patience to work by hand and not with machines, even with machines i have to often slow my self down.
I don't know about James, but for me working with hand tools is a way of meditation and calming my mind. It's not so much having a finished product made by the fastest or easiest way. It's all about the process of making itself.
Personally, in a lot of ways I find hand tools faster than power. Or almost just as quick. Less setup time, less jigs to use, and far far less safety features to work around/get in the way. Yes the actual operation is slower... usually. But the. Overall process isn't as much slower as you'd think.
@@akadventurer7563 Setting up the square for your tablesaw versus just taking it over to the bench and cutting it even set up for Minor so I can take a minute if you’re being careful much faster just to do it by hand unless you’re doing multiple boards with the same cutting set up
Could you use pine like 2x4 for this? Or is hardwood better for the vise? Cheap like poplar or oak, or exotic wood like purple heart? Woodcraft always seems to have this on sale. Is each vise jaw about 1.5" thick? thx
the harder the wood the longer it will last, but the softer the wood the les chance of denting the work. for me I would go with something at least as hard as cherry or harder.
Interesting way to embed the nut, instead of chiseling a hexagonal mortise. Never thought of doing it that way
To say the least.
No ACME screws is a dealbreaker for me. An easy set of screws for a moxon kit is to tear down a black and decker benchmate. Gets you a moxon vise with, if you want, a 4-6 inch opening, acme threaded rods and even tho they are usually plastic, decent threaded anchors/nuts that will take a surprising amount of punishment (ACME threads, need I say more). You can usually get busted ones for $20.
Badass! Wow. I love it. 👌 😍 💯
How about putting the locking nut on the handle? Then the bolt would not be sticking out the front. You may have to put a plate on the back bolt to keep it locked in place.
Great job, thanks for your videos
Thanks for sharing that!
Vices are bad, vises hold things. Nice video, I've been wanting to make one these for a while. I'll check out the Taytools page. Thanks James.
It depends on where you at. The spelling can actually go both ways most places around the world.
Is that an adapter on the Brace to use regular wood bits?
Here you are. ruclips.net/video/bjAomHJ_8mE/видео.html
@@WoodByWright Awesome, Thank you.
Hi James, just before I clicked on your video I was watching one from a master Chinese joiner (you would have loved it) but the tools he used although they were all hand tools were so sharp your look dull in comparison. He does not use glue or any metal fasteners and he produce joints that were just incredible.
What are you using to go from brace to wood owl auger bit? My 3 jaw brace will work with the smaller augers in softwood but start slipping with the bits bigger than 1". I'm currently using a 1/2" socket T-handle and a socket to drive the large augers and huge wood owl forstner bits when I don't want to bring around battery powered stuff but a larger swing brace and a tapered square to wood owl sized hex would help with the large augers. I saw someone made a 3/8" square drive to tapered square brace adapter but yours being one piece is preferable.
edit: nevermind, just found your tool recommendations page
Here you go. I just did a video on that one not that long ago. ruclips.net/video/bjAomHJ_8mE/видео.html
Hi, James! What is the length of the steel screws?
I believe they are 7". But they might be eight. I'm out of the shop so I won't be able to answer it for sure.
instead of locking two nuts together in the back, take one and lock it into the hand-wheel. that way the hand-wheel and thread move together and the rest of the thread goes out the back.
I read "moron vice kit"
I'm like, oh, so: drugs, alcohol, and random dangerous things?
And he's going to make a nice wooden box to hold it all together
Lol that sounds about right.
lol
Great looking project James, but I'm sure not a fan of the silent video format.
Then you would like the second channel. This channel is just for the easy watching average RUclipsr. The second channel is where all the teaching is done. every time there is a video on this channel there is also a video on the other channel where I talk through the whole project.
@@WoodByWright I went to the other channel and watched it there too. Great video. Wondering what the blue thing is on your brace and bit setup...
Thanks.it is a depth stop. Here you go. ruclips.net/video/tMlKyFCCVUA/видео.html
Mechanically you really need a large washer or metal plate on the back to give it life. It will just pull through and become unstable
You should watch the how to version. I cover that there.
Was I seeing things or was there a wedding ring on your drill bit?
Yep. It lets you know if the bit is level. otherwise it will move up and down the shank letting you know which way to lift or lower the brace.
@@WoodByWright Who knew marriage would be good for your woodworking!
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I'm really not a fan of the Moxon "kit", I still believe there's a way to actually fasten this design to a work table. Cheers :)
Yes. The purpose of the Moxon vice is not to replace the vice on your bench or to be the main vice. It is to raise the work up another 6 in or so higher making it easier to see when doing endgrain joinery such as dovetails. I use it very rarely but when I do it's incredibly handy.
What were once vices are now habits
Hi again, I just used your link to go to the moxon vice kit and it was nice until I got to shipping, because I live in the UK the shipping was almost twice the cost of the kit. I would not pay that much for the kit on principle, we are supposed to be in a world market and yet people think it is alright to pile on the cost because it is going to another country, not only was the shipping expensive but further investigation showed that on top of the shipping costs there would be another cost of import duty of another £40:00 that brings the cost of the kit to over four times the actual cost of the item. No wonder buying from the USA is not an option.
Yep. That's a problem of international shipping. They're just so many charges and other costs. Not to mention the plane to fly it over the ocean. For most things it's just not cost effective.
Looking at the old confirmation email, I see that I paid $80.92 for shipping and handlig of this kit and a few other smaller things like screws. Before import duties, customs handling fee and 25% VAT of course. I have sort of given up worrying about shipping costs like these. If I buy something here in Norway (and you cannot find much of anything here that isn’t made of plastic in China) the retailer will have added a similar cost in shipping and VAT. It comes out almost the same. If you want something you have to pay what it costs.
Still, I should probably open the box soon. It’s been over a month since it arrived. 😂
Buy some 22 mm all thread, some nuts and make one. You can get four 12mm bolt cut the heads off , round hex on grinder to make speed nuts. It should not cost much to have bolts welded to 22mm nuts at angle.
Odd to watch what I thought was a video I hadn’t seen and then find my own old comment here. Happens to me a lot actually. Anyways, I’ve started building mine. Spent three days on it so far and in fact I thought I was mostly done. But now I’m thinking that I might add a small table with bench dogs to the back piece. My workbench doesn’t have any other vise.
As for the fancy imported specialty hardware and hardwood, I just saw huge bolts and nuts like this at a store here for very little money. Didn’t think you could buy anything like that here, only small construction screws. I’ve found maple here as well. Pricy but at least I don’t have to add overseas shipping and VAT like I did before.