How to Make the Ultimate Wooden Clamp - Woodworking

i've designed and built a lot of wooden clamps but these ones are the best and i'll talk more about that as we go through the build i'm making 10 of these and i'm using this rough maple this is from a tree that was cut down in my backyard a few years ago and the wood is spalted but not spalted enough to make it remarkable so i figured this is a good use to it right here and i'm doing all of this on the table saw or the miter saw without using any fancy tools okay so why am i calling these ones the best these work exactly the same as the clamps you can buy no notches on the bar you just slide it ahead and tighten it up i learned a lot from my previous versions and i incorporated all of that into this new design it's easy to make and you can even use scraps because none of these parts are really that big unlike everything else when you do it yourself if it breaks you can fix it or if you need more you can make more [Music] now be a good time to tell you that plans are available for this class you can get them today and get started immediately just click the link in the description it'll take you right there this might seem like i'm doing a lot of cutting here but you got to remember that i'm working with rough lumber and so i'm cutting it down to thickness as well and even though i'm showing a lot it's nowhere near as much as i actually did of course you can take the smoothness of these clamps as far as you want i'm just going to do some rudimentary sanding just to get rid of some of the saw marks and also to round over the corners a little bit before i cut out the rest of the parts [Music] [Music] [Music] i want to break in here and tell you about the makers mob 72 hour summer sale now is your opportunity to get your first month for almost zero cost for just 99 cents you get all of my tutorials plus more than 80 full projects from youtube's top makers like jimmy deresta the samurai carpenter liam hoffman frank howarth john peters and neil paskin if you're serious about improving your woodworking you're not going to get a better deal than this so click the link in the description but remember this is a limited time offer so act fast like i said i'm doing this on my table saw my miter saw and when it comes to cutting smaller pieces to length at 90 degrees i always reach for my mini table saw sled and this is mostly ultimately about the quality of the cut too often when you're cutting these small pieces the blade catches them on the way out because you're in too much of a hurry to let it stop and it throws it halfway across the room after cutting a big gouge out of it and that doesn't happen with the sled on the table saw as you can see i push the stock all the way through and leave it on the other side of the blade [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign for assembly i'm using wood glue plus i'm driving in some 23 gauge pins to hold the parts in line until i can get it clamped up and especially when you're making 10 of these you want to schedule glue ups while other parts are drying so you always have something to do depending on the glue that you use certain parts need to be left to dry longer like the threaded rod in the handle plus the sandpaper on the end of the moving jaw i use polyurethane construction and use it for that and i left them to dry overnight [Music] there's another reason why these are the best clamps and i mean overall actually i love using wooden claps and that's because they're not heavy but that doesn't mean that they're weak i've never had a problem getting enough force out of these clamps all you need to have is one glue up with 30 clamps on it and then try to move that if those are metal clamps if you're a woodworker and you already have a selection of clamps you don't need to build these to test that out all you need to do is look at the clamps that you use the most and i'm willing to bet that they're the lightest ones [Music] so [Music] after i got them fully assembled and sanded i brought them outdoors and i sprayed on two coats of water-based polyurethane lightly sanding with 220 grit after that first coat like i said before there are plans available for these you can go to my website there's a link in the description you can pick up a copy and get started right away [Music] you

Channel: John Heisz - I Build It

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Keywords: woodworking, how to, diy, jpheisz, ibuildit

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Length: 9min 43sec (583 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 14 2021