Wood working clamps

[tstex]

Are any of these type of clamps worthwhile investing in for holding 3/4” & 1” boards? Thank you very much.

 

[4570Man]

What are you trying to hold? That looks like a gimmick IMO.

 

[Rustyiron]

If you're making picture frames.

 

[Rustyiron]

On second look, the clamping force is by some chinsey springs. 4570's gimmick is my opinion also.

 

[Doughknob]

I think that thing is a “jig” and meant to hold pieces in place while real clamps or nails are used to fasten.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

My advice is to stick with clamp models which have been in production for years, and buy them from known and reputable manufacturers.

When I was younger, I bought all different kinds of low cost clamps from a bunch of screwball manufacturers. Most of them didn’t work well.

I started to make more money and have more discretionary money. I started buying known styles of clamps from known manufacturers. They work, and are easy to use. The ones I had been buying werent inexpensive. They were cheap, as in ”of poor quality and utility, thus low in cost”. And, in the end I spent far more money, because I have replaced all of them

It bothers me a bit when folks use cheap to mean inexpensive, so that now folks think they are synonyms. Cheap, means, “of poor quality, and utility, thus low in cost”.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

I think that thing is a “jig” and meant to hold pieces in place while real clamps or nails are used to fasten.

I think they are supposed to be clamps, and a mechanically sterile set dresser, or photographer, stuck them together rotated 180-degrees from how they would need to be set up to actually work.

 

[Doughknob]

yes advertised as clamps and 180 degrees turned. But description also alludes to holding for screwing, nailing. They do not apply enough pressure to make a good glue joint even though they might be advertised that way too.

so reality is they might work as jigs…..

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095P753JN/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&aaxitk=a42eaa04da457fcf122f321cae74aa1e&hsa_cr_id=4423200970901&pd_rd_plhdr=t&pd_rd_r=28b7b8b9-25c3-4d8c-97c7-839ea623b147&pd_rd_w=UzGJ5&pd_rd_wg=zk4jx&ref_=sbx_be_s_sparkle_mcd_asin_1_img

 

[Egon]

I think they are supposed to be clamps, and a mechanically sterile set dresser, or photographer, stuck them together rotated 180-degrees from how they would need to be set up to actually work.

I would think you are right.

 

[Egon]

Are any of these type of clamps worthwhile investing in for holding 3/4” & 1” boards? Thank you very much.

It would be easy to make some clamps like those shown and use a ratchet strap.

The picture shown has an incorrect orientation.