Could have sworn I had more 6" & 24" trigger clamps for stuff like this

    • snooggums
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      73 months ago

      When making non-standard size boxes it only takes one, because having it made custom is expensive as hell.

      • bluGill
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        23 months ago

        OR when you want better quality than the standard boxes you can buy anywhere. (ie boxes that last more than a month)

  • @[email protected]
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    183 months ago

    A couple years ago I got a handful of F clamps for christmas.

    My wife: “I thought you already have clamps”

    Me: “Yes, I do. But not enough.”

    Wife: “How many is enough?”

    Me: “One more than I have.”

    Also a little 18ga brad nailer makes those glueups way easier.

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      3 months ago

      Not true for plywood in my experience. You will never get as tight of a glue up using only brads/pins as you would with clamps and a mechanical fastener. Screws yes but I don’t think brads have the holding power to prevent any gaps from forming during the glue up process.

  • IninewCrow
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    133 months ago

    I have about ten clamps in my shop … and I don’t even do any regular woodworking.

  • rem26_art
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    583 months ago

    i swear that trees were invented by clamp companies to sell more clamps

  • @[email protected]
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    53 months ago

    Just watched an old New Yankee episode, where Norm built a cabinet of similar dimensions, and he used roughly similar amounts. Good work.

    • @[email protected]
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      13 months ago

      Nah the right way is to load the puppy up with as many staples, brads and screws that she can take.

      /s

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    53 months ago

    They should make wood that clamps itself but I bet Big Clamp would have something to say about that

    • bluGill
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      13 months ago

      There are lots of self clamping joints. They are a lot more work than glue+clamps so they are not common. However when it really has to stay then a joint without glue at all will be best.