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You can never have too many clamps

Every Clamp in the shop

I glued up a panel today with some really cool-looking book-matched Red Gum glued on top of a plywood substrate. Some people use vacuum presses for this kind of thing, but for better or worse, that’s not a tool I own. I had to laugh after I used literally every clamp in the shop. Hopefully it works!

Note to self: buy more clamps. I really want to try out some of these Bessey ones, but have never been able to justify their cost.



One Response to “You can never have too many clamps”

  1. phil Says:

    February 11th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
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    running out of clamps is a constant problem in our refinishing shop. fortunately there is always something to do that doesn’t use clamps while the glue dries. my boss is a clamp-aholic, while i tend to try to find the sweet spots. in an application like this, however, i don’r blame you for over clamping. i do like to see inventive, yet unconventional, clamping, i often go to the scrap pile to reinvent, and subsidize my use of clamps (or the lack of enough clamps).