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today I'm going to build a Moxon base

using this kit that you can purchase for

under $40 this kit comes with everything

that you need to build a quality Moxon

vise it also comes with a set of

instructions and the only thing that you

need to provide yourself is some wood

you can use any kind of wood that you

have so I'm gonna go look at my lumber

stack and see what I have to work with

all right let's see if this boards gonna

work the instructions that came with the

hardware suggested that the front jaw be

23 and a half inches wide and then the

backdoor is going to have two tabs that

are going to be used for clamping and

each one of those tabs is three inches

long so that's an added six inches onto

the back piece so that's twenty nine and

a half oh yeah alright

so I have an inch and a quarter leftover

from this board perfect-sized gonna go

clean it up now

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before trimming these pieces to final

width I'm just going to join one edge it

looks like it's been jointed already but

when I run my square along the edge

there's light shining through all over

the place I don't have a jointer so I

used my tapering jig and I just clamp it

so that I feel a little bit running

along the edge of the jig here and when

I do such thick material on this jig I

just have to put a little spacer or

riser block on the back of these clamps

to create the perfect leverage for these

clamps all right now I'm just gonna

clean this up now that I have one edge

that is completely square I can use it

to reference against the fence of the

table saw and clean up the other edge

and get this to final with the

instructions suggest at least four

inches and this is really just up to you

kind of depends how tall you are or how

tall your workbench is there's really

just no set rule here just do what feels

good to you the pieces are now ready for

some layout lines for the holes for the

hardware so the first thing to do is

find the center of the boards these are

4 inches wide so 2 inches is the center

going to mark that on either end of the

front jaw now the instructions say to

mark two and 3/8 in from the ends of

just the front jaws now it's going to be

really important that the front jaw and

back job line up correctly so in order

to make sure that these two holes are

going to line up I'm going to just

transfer this two and 3/8 inch mark from

the front jaw onto the back jaw by

lining up these pieces making sure

there's the correct amount of overhang

so I know that I left over three inches

on either side

and I'll take my combo square again I'm

going to line it up on that two and

three eighths inch mark that I had just

put out there on the front fence line it

up and bring it across onto the back jaw

I'll do that on both ends

all right so oh I didn't find the center

of this yet but it's easy just two

inches all right so now these holes are

going to line up and the reason why I'm

doing it this way is because the front

jaw is actually not going to have a

round hole it's going to have an oval

hole so I'm gonna take that two and

three eighths inch mark of it I drew out

there and I'm going to mark a quarter

inch on either end of that mark right on

the center line and I'll do that on both

ends now these two marks are where I'm

going to drill out my holes to create

the oval hole for the front and jaw are

you seeing a really dull bit and it's

burning like crazy

I moved the board over to that second

quarter inch line that was off of the

original two and three eighths line that

I had made and now I'll just drill bit

out elongating the hole now I'll just

use a chisel to clean up those two

pointy parts to create the oval

before moving on let me just do a test

and see if everything is fitting nicely

a little hung up one second all right

perfect

all right so this is why I had to mark

out the lines on the back jaw earlier

because I can't really use these ovals

as a reference now for where to drill

the corresponding holes so that's why

you have to do that step earlier on all

right now I'm going to drill out the

back door

I want to recess this nut on the inside

face of the rear jaw so I'm going to use

a one inch Forstner bit and I'm going to

go just slightly deeper than the

thickness of this nut so that it will be

fully recessed into the board and what

is the difference between a sharp bit

and a dull one this is a bigger bed it's

one inches over 3/4 inches and it's

super clean I gotta get a new 3/4 inch

Forstner bit or at least figure out a

way to sharpen it now I have to swap

back out to that dull 3/4 inch bit so

that I could drill all the way through

and finish up the holes

so the hole is drilled all the way

through there's a 3/4 inch hole that's

all the way through and a one-inch

recessed hole over here in order to

recess the bolt fully into there just

going to put the bolt on here drop this

down into the hole and I'm going to

scribe around the nut

all the hard parts are done and now just

to add a few small little details on the

front jaw I want to cut a bevel in the

top front and that is so when I'm

actually using the vise when I'm using a

saw cutting this way this is the front

the the jaws just won't get in the way

of my tools so I just set this to a

random angle and a distance

that looked okay to me gonna cut it away

that bevel looks pretty sweet now so the

way that the vise works is that you

clamp the back draw on to your worktable

after you install all the hardware

obviously and if you leave the

extensions like this your clamps might

get in the way of your work so there are

a few ways to fix that you can either

drill some holes in the extensions and

that way you can put clamps through the

holes or I'm going to just cut away at a

little section over here to create some

room for the clamp heads

I couldn't raise the table saw blade

high enough to finish up that cut so

I'll just finish the cut with a handsaw

a mocks and vise would really come in

handy for client thinking this piece

right now

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before I can install the hardware the

instructions say that I need to clean

them with denatured alcohol the

instructions also mention that all the

parts are made from untreated steel

which means that they could possibly

rust so they suggest using a rust

inhibitor I am a huge fan of the

specialist line from wd-40 specifically

this long-term corrosion inhibitor

simply spray on any metal parts and they

will be protected from rust and

corrosion for up to a year if left

outdoors or two years indoors if

humidity is an issue in your garage like

behind this long-term corrosion

inhibitor is a great solution to keeping

your tools rust free everything is nice

and coated now so it's time to install

the hardware the holes that I made that

fit the nuts in the back dog go on the

inside face so I'll just thread this

onto here just a little bit and set it

into place now I'll keep screwing it

until it comes out through the back then

lock it into place with a washer and

another nut and I'll just repeat the

same thing to the other side in order to

use the vise correctly you want to make

sure that you're aligning it with the

edge of your workbench because if it was

pushed forward you wouldn't be able to

clamp in at all workpiece so this needs

to be completely flush so that way you

can clamped all pieces so there are a

few ways that you can do this I think

that it might be an interesting and cool

way to put on these little tabs onto

here that you could just push it and it

quickly references the edge of the

workbench so I'm just gonna go and screw

those on

I just ended the tabs to shape and I

broke all the edges just to make

everything smooth and now I'm going to

finish them up with some Danish oil so

they say not to put any finish on the

inside to maximize the gripping power of

the vise so I will just apply it on the

outside all right finally time to

assemble it all first we're gonna just

drawn these tabs I drilled oversized

holes in them so that the screws will go

through it and that way I could turn

them and lift them out of the way in

case I ever need to so it's tight enough

so that it will have a positive stop

against here but it's loose enough that

I can fold them out of the way

in case for some reason I ever need them

out of the way

before putting on the front jaw I'll

just clamp it down so that it doesn't

tip over and I'm actually going to leave

the inside of the jaws bare for now I'm

not going to put on any leather or

rubber I know it's something that some

people put on inside I'm going to see

how it works without it now put on the

front jaw washers and the knobs so why

use a Moxon vise so this is the reason

why I wanted to build one so when I was

cutting dovetails I needed to have a

good way to clamp boards vertically and

a Moxon vise is a great tool to do that

I know this is a short piece but you can

have longer pieces going all the way

down so if you're sawing this way in the

end of a board this is an amazing way to

hold a piece vertically like this

another reason why I needed a Moxon vice

was an easy way to clamp angled

materials like tapered legs or something

so there was one time where I was

planing down a tapered leg and I

couldn't find a good way to clamp it

down while planing it so I don't know if

you could see the angle really here this

is just a scrap piece of ash but I just

imagine that this is a table leg there

is an angle to it so because the front

jaw has the ovals in the front but the

jaw couldn't like twist side to side so

you can clamp angled pieces in here

which makes it really easy and the

workpiece holds super tight and then he

could just plane away even though the

pieces angled and not straight so I hope

that this was helpful for some of you

guys out there I'll put a link down to

this hardware kick down below this

wasn't sponsored or anything I just

thought this would be helpful for people

who were looking to get an affordable

quality Moxon vise so thank you to wd-40

for sponsoring this video and thank you

guys so much for watching I'll see you

on the next one today I'm going to build

a Moxon vise

using this kit that you can purchase for

under and that might help with the

clamping pressure goes up my kids on the

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