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Love your videos, question on the Greene and Greene ebony plugs. Do you install them before or after finishing?

A beautiful frame. It will add some interest to any home. One thing, to watch the same procedure on every corner makes the video monotonous, for lack of a better word. I don’t want to sound mean. I hope I don’t sound that way.

where i find this black adapters?

Great review video Darrell. For some reason, my Bessey K Body clamps handle needs to unscrew enough to relieve pressure in order to get the heads to move freely. I've been using them for many years now and still struggle with moving them up and down the neck. Also, I highly recommend putting blue tape over the exposed parallel clamp shaft that sits under your glue ups. Once glue gets on them and dries up, it can be a pain in the butt to get good clamping pressure in the area where the dried glue is. Another advantage of owning Parallel clamps is being able to combine two clamps for extended reach with Bessey's clamp extender kit. And last (but not least) you can reverse the clamping pressure to pushing pressure by flipping the Bessey K Body clamp's head in the opposite direction. Thanks Darrell.

Check out the Harbor Freight K clamps. I have a few of these as well as a half dozen Bessey K’s and they’re a great, cheaper alternative.

I did like, and I did subscribe. Thanks for the great review. It's hard to find practical reviews by YTers that aren't too worried about a potential sponsor or sale. I particularly liked the tips for your shim/blocking kit. Mine is a random hot mess and needs to step it up! lol

Lots of great tips in this video, thanks. My strategy when I was buying K-body-type clamps: - Stick to one brand. It's so much easier to use clamps in a glue-up when they're all the size height and shape. Bessey, Jet, Jorgensen, etc., are all good; just pick one. I picked Bessey mostly at random. - Most times; I bought one clamp per paycheck. It spread out the pain. - An exception to the one-per-paycheck: occasionally, the Big Box stores would switch suppliers for their clamps. For example, in my area, Home Depot is currently a Bessey store and Lowe's is a Jorgensen store. In years past when I was buying clamps a store would change. When they did, they'd "blow out" clamps from their old suppliers at really cheap prices. I remember once driving to 3 different Home Depots when they were getting rid of the Besseys. Each store only had a few left. I saved a ton of money.

Great tip about how to adjust the jaws on the Bessey clamps. Very well done video and great information, thanks.

If I were to use a Pony double pipe clamp that straddles a flat panel do you think it would eliminate the need to adjust the clamp to get a flat surface?

All these years, never knew that about moving the Bessey head😂 Thanks!

Good morning Darrell

But the two type of clamps are for different purposes... Yeah, obviously they're somewhat interchangeable, but still.

I have plenty of real ebony with browns in it.

I've used USA Jorgensen I-beam clamps for years, I have about 16 of them. I have about 40 or so 1/2" and 3/4" USA made Jorgensen pipe clamps. I bought 8 of the K-body clamp in your video at the big box store for about $50, and I liked them O.K. I bought 8 E-Homa K-body type clamps, I think they were made in Tiawan. I really like them. I also have about 8-10 Jorgensen Cabinetmaster clamps the ones made in Asia, and they are garbage. The threads on the screws becomes worn quite quickly and the don't operate very smoothly any longer. All of my Bessy F-style clamps are German Made, I bought them many years ago before Bessy outsourced them to Asia.

During COVID and even today, the problem I found with the diy pipe clamps are how expensive the raw, uncut pipes are. Doing the map, I found it more convenient just purchasing Bessy K-Body clamps from Rockler when they are on sale or whenever I get a 20% coupon. Still, I would love to see a comparison along with price break-downs. Thanks Darrell.

Bessey clamps K body are good but pricey as all German made quality. I think they pay for themselves over time. Regards, kd Traditional Joiner Wales UK

$57 for a K body is a STEAL! w2here did you buy them?

Always interested in what a pro has to say on This vs That tool.

Darrell, this product was developed for guitar fingerboards, and at this time it seems to be available only in a .350 inch thickness. The sample piece you use in this video appears to be thicker. Does the company have any plans to make thicker pieces for the woodworking community?

My sharpie trick has been exposed!

Darrell, your use of the phrase “lifetime stash of Ebony” makes the imagination run wild! You make A LOT of furniture. Great video!

Price for 22"x3"x0.35" is $29. If I did the math right, that's $180/bf. Thanks for taking the time to do this review Darrell.

Amazing…… a square peg actually fitted into a square hole

I always liked that Greene & Greene arts & crafts style.

This is great information, thank you for sharing Darrell.

Thanks for posting, Darrell. It's too bad that currently it's only available in fretboard stock at .350 thickness. I can see a lot of uses for it for future work. Great jig for the splines, by the way. Are plans available?

Thank you for another excellent video!

Great demonstration.

Great info, thanks!! No dro on the F&F jig anymore?

Hi thank you so much for your content. Just a suggestion though: your voice volume is faint compared to the saws. Watching with headphones I had to adjust my volume quickly as the audio became uncomfortably loud. Perhaps there is a way to boost your voice while quieting the machinery in post-production?

Excellent news! Looks great

Looks like a great alternative when we might need it. Is there a source in the States where it is available?

Thank you for posting this. I was just last night researching G&G furniture and saw many of your videos, and was then researching how to get a viable alternative to ebony - and tonight TH-cam provides an answer from you!

I wonder why they've decided to call it Obsidian Ebony and not Obsidian Maple? Great review Darrell. I love how easy you make your plugs and splines.

Is that maple resin infused? That's a crazy amount of shiny.

Nice looking buffer. 🙂 Even real Gabon Ebony tends to have streaks in it these days. Thanks for the review. It's been a while since I added to my Gabon Ebony stash. It was about $100/bft then and it looks like it's about twice that now.

Thank you for posting this Darrell. 🙏🏻

Nice! It is always good to have alternatives.

Looks great will contact them for prices. Thanks for sharing this

Excellent work!! Thanks for making this video!! I need to take this same build soon as well as make some pneumatic clamps similar to those on your slider. Researching to source all the parts and fittings is so time consuming. This really helps! 7months later it s there anything you’d change on v2.0? Do you find the jig(s) line up repeatable in the huge t slot on the felder slider? Like, each time you remove and replace then do they line up parallel to each other and square to the table? This has been my biggest concern having never used a fritz n franz jig before

@7:40 you bent over to turn the machine off doesn't the on off controls on the slider work.

I just bought one … it hurts

vs woodpeckers multi-router which better ?

where buy neumatic clamping ???

Nice shop! But the mats by the Felder saw makes me nervous just looking at it. I used to do full panel processing on similar saws. just hate the thought of having something to trip over. How do you like the jointer with the euro guard? I never used one. They look they can really slow movement and processing.

Heads up on that wooden handle. It will be prone to snapping. Stanly added a steel rod in their handles. Just look at any old Stanly hand plane.

Exactly what I needed to see. Thanks for posting.

Hi Darrell...It's been almost 2 years since this review. How do you feel about the Pantorouter vs the milti-router now? Do you find that the pantorouter has found a more prominent place in your joint arsenal, or is the multi-router still your primary joint making machine?

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