I got so tired of fighting with glueing up cutting boards ... Is everything lining up ? Is there slipping ? One clamp at a time !! ... So I spotted these flooring jacks in the HF catalog ... and I began to wonder ... I bet that I could use these to clamp cutting boards together in hopefully one shot ... I haven’t tried it yet, but I will let everyone know if there are problems ... I am thinking this is going to work just fine ... I may need to add regular clamps at the corners, we’ll see ...
Picked up a couple of these clamps with the sale that Woodcraft is having ... I have always had Harbor Freight and Jorgensen F style clamps ... I knew that I was going to need some clamping power with a project that I am working on and these turned out perfect ... I bought the 40” model and they are great ... Quality is excellent ... I have used them a few times since I got them three days ago ... They are able to hold as much pressure as I am able to give them ... The cam handle is a little
I accidentally posted this review under the blog section, and thought I better correct it ... I was looking for a clamp that could hold a glue up of two 45 deg strips of wood to make a block. Basically two triangles glued together to make a square. All the woodworking site searches produced nothing. Then I came across these clamps on a welding website ... http://www.stronghandtools.com/products/pdt_img/pgv_pic.html ... I ordered three of them from my local welding supply store to see how they
Hello everyone. Ive been working on my first Morris Chair and I thought I would document some of this. Found the plans from a book “Wood Magazine Arts and Crafts Furniture”. I’m making some changes to the design of the spindles on the sides of the chair but the dimensions are essentially the same. It will be made from walnut ... I started this project with plans on laminating stock for the legs and discovered the hard way that the glue was bad. I tried Weldwood plastic resin glue that had