Something Different With a Moxon Vise

The Austrian Christmas Chicken arrived a little late this year, and he brought a Moxon vise with Benchcrafted hardware.  He constructed it with maple stock,  and gave it to me as a present.

The vise clamped to my bench top.  Sooner or later I think I will put some holdfast holes in my bench to hold it.  For now, the clamps work perfectly.

I look forward to really getting to know this vise.  I have been meaning to make one for a couple years now, but haven't gotten around to it yet.  Thanks, Alex!

Yesterday I cheated on the stool build-off and built my stool early.  I work every day this week, including Saturday and Sunday, so there was no other time to build the stool.  I can't wait to blog about my build, but I will wait until Saturday to post about it.  The only thing about it I will say is it exceeded my expectations.

As far as this vise goes, I did find a use for it on this build.  Although my understanding is it excels at workholding for dovetails, I find it also makes a pretty darned good joiner's saddle, you know, a way to hold rectangular stock to plane it into an octagon or into a dowel.

Moxon holding a stick.

ready-built planing stop

The set-up for this.  Both scraps are the same thickness in this case.

So, there you have it.  It worked perfectly.  If you haven't taken two minutes to make a joiner's saddle, but have a Moxon vise, that is two minutes of your life you don't need to waste building another shop appliance.

View the rest of my stool build here.