Clamps

Sort by:

End Joining Long Boards

By Bruce Kieffer & filed under Gluing and Clamping, Skill Building.

This trick is also great for clamping together all kinds of odd shaped hard-to-clamp joints, and useful a when you need a longer clamp than you have. The Problem. Every so often we are all faced with a “how the heck do I clamp this” situation. I was recently building a very large boat shaped…

Read more »

Leigh Hold-Down Clamps

By George Vondriska & filed under Buying Advice, Product Review.

I think it’s brilliant! If a clamp works well securing material on a dovetail jig, why not use it at the bench? That’s what Leigh did by converting the material clamps from their dovetail and FMT jigs into bench hold down clamps. Leigh’s Hold-Down Clamps, $49.95, can be mounted to any surface because they’re available…

Read more »

Fix a Screwed-Up Table Top

By Seth Keller & filed under Furniture Making, Skill Building.

Did you use too long a screw, and now it’s poking through the tabletop? Here’s a ‘swell’ repair solution.Sending a screw up through a tabletop while attaching it to the apron is a disaster, there’s no question about it. I managed to do this four times when I grabbed the wrong length screws from a…

Read more »