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I was looking around Lee Valleys web site and saw something like this but they wanted over $20.00 for two if them, I am making a coffee table for myself at the moment that is going to be mechanical fastener free and they would have come in handy, not wanting to pay that price I naturally made my own! Having made them out of off cuts from the coffee table that would have been sent to a fire pit sometime this summer I got them for "free". Their not hard to make at all, very quick and easy. I just drew out a rough design and used my tape measure to get a radius on the clamping area, cut them out with the bandsaw, used the edge sander to smooth them a bit and there you have it! No more fiddling with multiple clamps at once to try and get your mitres glued up. I went with a radius rather than a 45 degree angle or something because I would like to be able to reuse these in future projects that may be a 22.5 or something different all together and I also found it gives me more choice where i put the clamp, if I need to move it one way or the other to help close up the mitre while in glue. Oh, and they work great!

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I like this idea! Turning scraps into someting useful works for me! Nice Play!
 

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Wow! That is genius! Glad I saw this, thanks for sharing!
 

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Once again, a nice job Chris. If you feel you have to spend some money on them, you can double sided tape some sand paper to the side that goes on the frame. A little extra grip if you wish.
 

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nailbanger, I never thought about doing that, there doesn't seem to be any slipping issues so far… however I will keep it in mind.
 

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As I said, if you absolutely have to spend that extra cash…..
 

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Thanks for sharing : )
 

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Great design.
 

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great idea chris, good job…are things thawing up over your way yet.
 

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I was wondering how i was going to do this just tonight. Great idea!
 

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Like em! Good tip, thanks for sharing these.
 

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Nifty! Why didn't I think of these…. I could be RICH! :)
 

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I would glue a small strip o sandpaper on em so they wouldn't slip
 

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Congratulations on seeing the light!
Making the join dependant on the cut instead of outside forces is a good way to go, if you have the miters cut accurately.
http://lumberjocks.com/donbee/blog/34747

Don
 

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This is one of those things that makes you say…"well of course that's how to do it…why didn't I think of that?"
 

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Great idea on the radius design. I'll have to use up some of my precious scraps LOL This one will come in handy for me in the next few days. Thanks
 
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