Taytools Improved Mid-Size Moxon Vise Hardware Kit – Includes 8" or 10" 1/2-13 Rods & 3" Cast Wing Nuts

This hardware kit is designed to build a mid-size Moxon twin-screw vise. You can create a traditional 2-piece design with a thick rear jaw, build one with an L-shaped rear jaw (plans available), or design your own custom version.

Moxon vises have been around for nearly 400 years, first illustrated by Joseph Moxon in his 17th-century book The Art of Joinery. This mid-size version is a compact, portable, and budget-friendly take on the classic full-size Moxon vise.

Ideal for woodworkers who don’t need—or don’t have room to store—a full-size unit, this vise can be built in just a few hours using minimal wood, basic tools, and our hardware kit. Despite its smaller size, it offers outstanding workholding for joinery (especially dovetailing), shaping, and carving tasks.

It raises your workpiece 3" for a more comfortable and ergonomic working height and can be easily clamped to almost any work surface. When not in use, it stores easily on a shelf or can be hung on the wall.

Most modern Moxon vises have threaded rods attached to the rear jaw, secured in place with four nuts—two of which are mortised into the rear jaw and sit flush with its front surface. This design leaves both rods protruding from the front jaw, often interfering with the user.

Our improved Mid-Size Moxon Vise Hardware Kit solves this problem by embedding threads in the rear jaw using an innovative nut bracket. This allows both rods to pass through the back jaw and spin freely to open and close the front jaw—leaving the area in front of the vise completely unobstructed. Additionally, the threaded rods rotate in steel bushings embedded in the rear jaw, reducing friction for smoother operation.

You can build two versions of a Mid-Size Moxon Vise using this kit: a Traditional 2-Piece Version with a thick, solid rear jaw or an alternate version with an L-Shaped rear jaw. Build plans for both version can be found HERE.

This kit contains the following components:

2 × 3" cast wing nuts with 1/2"-13 threads
2 × 1/2"-13 threaded rods (choose 8" or 10" length)
2 × 1/2" washers
2 × 1/2"-13 square nuts
2 × 1/2" ID × 3/4" OD × 1" long steel bushings
2 × nut brackets
4 × #8 × 1-1/4" pan head sheet metal screws
.34 oz bottle red thread locker

Specifications of finished vises:

· Overall length; 23”

· Jaw length: 18”

· Jaw height: rear 3”, front 3-1/4”

· Distance between rods: 11-1/2”

· Maximum opening: 8” rods-4” opening; 10” rods-6” opening

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