Moxon’s Ingenious Bench Vise
Categories:: December 2010 #187 • Popular Woodworking Magazine Article Index | | Tags: Article Index • Christopher Schwarz • December 2010 • Jig Journal
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17th-century design saves your 21st-century back.
By Christopher Schwarz
Pages: 64-66
From the December 2010 issue # 187
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If you cut dovetails by hand, then I’m sure you’re aware of the other part of your anatomy that is involved: your back.
Bending over rows of tails and pins all day is murder when you try to stand up straight. Several people have come up with solutions, including a cute mini-bench that you park on your full-size bench to raise your work. Other woodworkers have built benches with higher benchtops that are designed just for hand-joinery.
Of course, like most things in woodworking, someone had already come up with the solution several centuries ago.
Video: See the video of the author threading and tapping the wooden components.
Article: We have dozens of free plans for jigs on our web site.
Web site: Read about how the prototype was developed on our blog.
To buy: Find links to buy the manual wood-threading kit for this project.
In our store: New “The Workbench Design Book.”
From the December 2010 issue # 187
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