Clamping Board

I’m happy to hear you’re getting better. I watched the video and found it interesting. There seemed to be a lot of screwing to get it fitted to the panel being glued up. Of course, if you’re making lots of standard size panels, that’s not an issue.

The video that intrigued me the most was the one that followed it: https://youtu.be/-mAKlqpbGG0 Pretty neat idea. It was funny because when he was tapping the wedges to tighten them I was thinking, just use a small clamp. Then he showed doing that.

They look lighter weight overall too. The weight of a clamping board, with a panel clamped in it might start to add up, but if you’re planning to just stack them, I guess that’s not an issue.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the second video seemed to have one weakness in that the straight boards aren’t shaped like a true caul to distribute pressure across the panel. I think this could be taken care of by using wedges (shims) much like the Izzy Swan clamping board video showed. I also think you need more than two of the clamps for panels longer than maybe 12 or 14 inches.

-- Half of what we read or hear about finishing is right. We just don’t know which half! — Bob Flexner

Thanks Rich. I think I do like Sergio’s idea better. Lot less material involved. I agree with you on the number of clamps for longer boards. Since most of my board glue-ups start at 36” I think three would be better. All of my boards are just shy of 13” so I’m sure I can make some standard clamps.

As far as a caul I like the shim idea. Most of my glue ups are pretty flat to start with so I usually don’t have a problem with one board higher than another – at least most of the time. For the odd one the shims will probably work fine.

For the The stacking part I’ve not figured out what I will do to make that happen. With the bolts sticking up you really can’t stack them in a straight line up. I might need to figure out a rack of some sort. I need to give that a little more thought.

Thanks for your input Rich.

-- "Our past judges our present." JFK - 1962; American Heritage Magazine

You may not have room for something like this but just throwing it out there-

Here’s a link to the picture-
http://blog.woodshopbits.com/category/clamping-glueing/

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the Universe's finest custom rolling pins.

I wish I had that kind of space. It looks like a pretty good system. Thanks Lew.

Betsy

-- "Our past judges our present." JFK - 1962; American Heritage Magazine