Versatile Retro on a Common Enough Bar Clamp
Customising benches can be an obsessive thing if you don’t take charge by limiting yourself to the essentials. Looking back on my previous postings on the Paul Sellers‘ vise clamping system I found myself relenting a little because there are times when dogs become a man’s best friend.
My drawings show the three alternative ways of using the basic bar clamp.
I bought a couple of $5 clamps from Peachtree Woodworking Supply at The Woodworking Show’s show a couple of weeks back and used them to clamp a couple of things for a last minute glue-up one evening. In delivering a priced-less clamp I found a couple of retro ways that gave me two or three clamp methods for bench-top dogging my stock using the existing plane stop holes I bored for the Veritas accessories. here.)
This method relies on the cantilevered bar pressing on the walls of the hole at the top and bottom.
This method relies on conventional clamping to both sides of the benchtop.
The last advantage gives a third system of dogging in the same way a hammer-tapped holdfast works.
This method worked great for a holdfast.
I have another dog system ready to post shortly. Simple, wood and recycled surveyor’s marker flag.
Wow that’s awesome!