Mini-Moxon for the Bench-on-Bench

glenn bradley

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Trying to elevate my hand cut dovetail status from "hack" to "reasonably proficient" I found myself in need of a moxon-like device. Space is at a premium here so I came up with an add-on for my Bench-on-Bench. I grabbed a scrap of red oak and a previously used piece of t-track. I cut a rabbet to accept the t-track, drilled the track with through holes and coutersinks and mounted it to the scrap.

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I marked the area where the scrap would be glued to the BonB and sanded the finish off.

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Some glue and #10 screws.

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And it works like so . . .

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These holddowns were picked up at a Woodworking show some years back. Other t-track type holddowns you may have will work as well.

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Interesting design. Nice way to extend the bench on bench. I can think of some other clamping systems that should work about as well now that the idea is there....
 
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