You can use a cam clamp (tutorial on making these!), quick grip, c-clamp as shown here, or get a friend to hold the jig […] reply woodworking plans electric fireplace – woodworking plans modern furniture says:. After i finally got all of my christmas gift projects completed sunday night i decided to whip up a pair of cam clamps. i bought the steel bar several weeks ago in anticipation of making these.. Make a set of cam clamps. photos by carl duguay here again, it’s handy to make a template (cardboard or wood) of the cam, and use it to lay out the cams on your stock. rough out the cams on the bandsaw, and clean them up on a disc sander, with a file, or freehand with sandpaper. i also use the template to locate the position of the hole.
Synopsis: steven cook uses cam clamps for jigs and fixtures, for anchoring a workpiece to a bench for routing, and for laminating. rather than using a screw to exert pressure, the clamps use a cam; the sliding jaw is kerfed, allowing the jaw to flex when the cam is rotated.. I would like to make a set of cam clamps to hold material down on our new cnc router. i would use 1/4" bolts of varying lengths that would slide into the t-tracks. the cam part i would make out of wood, but i have no idea what shape to make them.. John heisz's homemade bar clamps i was thinking about building bar clamps before i built my long reach c-clamps.but then i thought about making my clamps unique by giving them a long reach, and c-clamps were much easier to make sturdy enough for that..
