Wooden Bar Clamps

by PhilCo

$20

3 Hours

Medium

You can never have too many clamps in a workshop, it seems however many you have, you are always one short!

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I therefore decided to make six wooden clamps, the bars themselves are two pieces of 3/4" plywood laminated together, the rest of the wood is mahogany, any hardwood will do.

Once laminated, you need to notch the top, to take the head, and drill the holes for the stop block.

As you can see, I had two Assistants for this part of the process

The stop blocks are mahogany, with a metal pin epoxied in, but not to the centre, it is offset, to give adjustment options.

These are the headstock, with T-nuts embedded and epoxied in place to take the threaded rod.

the clamp blocks I cut, then cut in half, and drilled a recess in both halves to accept a nut on the end of the threaded rod, once in plce, I glued the blocks back together, and the nut is encased in the middle.

It was then just a case of assembling the parts, finally I made some hardwood handles, which I drilled to accept the threaded rod, epoxied them in place, and once dry, I drilled through the handle and rod, epoxied a fine nail in place and now the handles will never move.

So for something that would have cost me $20 a piece for cheapos, I have six for the price of one! the only cost being the epoxy and threaded rod, the rest being scrap.

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Sassysugarcreek on Nov 20, 2015
would you consider making six of these wonderful items for me to purchase? I am new at wood working and I KNOW I cant build these !! They are GREAT>>>

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