Which woodworking clamps should you buy?
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I always include this man's opinion when making determinations on woodworking decisions . . .
59 yrs old and as a beginner this information is golden.
I love my Jurgensen pistol grip clamps. Expensive but very handy.
The mini squeeze clamps have been the best chip clips and I’ll never go back :)
As a long time journeyman I know my share of tips and tricks, but I love the way you explain things and am so glad somebody of your caliber is on TH-cam giving tips and tricks to the inexperienced as well as the experienced. I enjoy your channel immensely. Keep on going.
I'm kind of new to wood working, but couldn't agree more. He's very insightful!
Excellent as always
I am new to wood projects. Thanks for this great video. Been pulling my hair out trying to figure out what type of clamps I need. This is great. Thanks for creating this easy to understand video all about clamps. The pistol clamps are what I need to start. THANKS
I've always got enough clamps....
Right until that moment when I don't.
Nothing brings a project to s slowdown like being 2 clamps short of gluing that 3rd table.
I really like the ratcheting type of Bessey clamp for many projects. I use them all the time.
What size do you have?
Gregory Mize I have a dozen of the 8”, four of the 12” and four 12” heavy duty for persuading things.
You omitted the old style wood cam lever f-style clamp which I find useful especially for repairs and exocic wood glueups. Mine have cork faces for mar prevention. I inherited mine from my dad who brought them from Germany in 1954.
I’ve now watched this one twice. The advice is excellent, as usual. What a blessing to have Stumpy!
As always, the preparation you put into your vids is obvious, and SO effective.
Simple, to the point, I love this guide! Thank you 👍🏼
I love this guy. Articulate, intelligent and fun to watch.
5:48 "This one time, at band clamp..."
I want them all and I want them now.
The Veruca Salt of woodworking! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for sharing with us James, good advice.
The rotating round pads on c clamps wont seize up if you take a small hypodermic needle ( available at any farm store ) fill the needle with a quality high pressure grease and squeeze a small amount into the pad below and around the ball on the feed screw, be careful you wont need much. Also on the acme screw, purchase a can of moly coat dry spray lube ( lps force 842 is what I have used for years ) and apply it to the screw with it screwed all the way out, once dry it wont run , be sticky or come off on your hands or anything else, you will be surprised how much more useful your c clamps will become !
electricman5010, good one, thanks!
Excellent rundown James.
Very useful and quite detailed. One of the most useful videos I have seen in a long time!
Love pipe clamps , I just ordered two of them today 😊🔨
How refreshing to have honest professional advice on what we really need. Thanks
So informative, so efficient, so authoritative and thoughtful. Excellent videos. Thank you!
James, you are awesome. Thanks for another great video.
The only thing a c-clamp is good for, is pressing the piston back into a break caliper.
You can use a bar clamp too. Been there, done that. C-clamps have there uses. If you're a metal worker....
I use c-clamps for my gluing cauls. Dont care about marring junk wood.
That’s the first clamp I ever bought and for that purpose
My c clamps are generally fairly dirty. Metal work and brakes.
Okay Cletus....
Thanks for such a thoughtful and well informed video...I always appreciate your sincere efforts to get it right!
Ii like your videos. They're densely packed with info and devoid of silliness. Thanks for saving my time.
This breakdown was awesome. Thanks for the number recommendation as well.
This is a really great overview. All of your videos are very informative.
Nice presentation. No messing around. I love your style.
Thanks man best info and suggestions I’ve seen on this topic for the large variety of clamps out there
I'm loving your videos! Extremely helpful. I'm an old machinist and sometime woodworking but I learn new stuff every time I watch. Thanks bro!
Best explanation on clams, and a round number to start with
Thank you for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I really like the Microjig dovetail clamps. Those things are amazing. Especially if you route a dovetail groove in your workbench.
Super clear and concise explanations. This video is helping me so much as I decide which clamps to buy. Thank you!!!!
I take it from several comments you made that you don’t see the need to exert so much force with your clamps that the wood wants to cry. I’ve said this for years and been chastised by other woodworkers. Funny enough I think their joints might fail before mine because they’re starved for glue cause they squeezed it all out.
Garry not Linda. Yes, an interesting take on that is George Vondriska at Woodworkers Guild did a piece on that very topic. He spent 2 years in the Peace Corps in Africa teaching woodworking. They didn't have many if any clamps so square joinery was most important. Glue ups would be done by standing one board up vertically on edge, glue applied, the two edges rubbed together until tacky, aligned and left overnight to set. The resulting joint was just as strong as any other. When stressed it was the wood that broke not the glue joint. I also have this thing about how much glue woodworkers waste for no good reason. An even coat to each edge is all that is necessary and there is a lot less cleanup.
Good content; basic for anybody with shop experience but so methodical and thorough it's still a pleasure to watch.
Another well presented informative video, thanks again, keep them coming. As a new woodworker, information like this is gold.
Best wishes, Dave UK
Thank you. I like your thoroughness and I agree with your choices.
Great review of clamps. As I’m just getting started woodworking, it was a timely topic. Thanks!
Pipe clamps are my most used clamps. I build a lot of large kitchen tables.
Same
For myself, Pipe Clamps are becoming outdated. They're great for a HD clamp that is inexpensive, but the clamps out there these days are taking their place for myself (thank goodness, I only have 1 arm, so pipe clamping was a nightmare.)
I'm using trigger clamps now. Irwin has their (reallllly expensive) HD Trigger clamps which had issues with length, but if you join two end to end, you can get a mountain of force on them. (I usually router an edge profile to help them lock together.) Plus they have accessories that can apply pressure from above to prevent buckling, and a stand to mount and keep them elevated.
I'm really blown away by the HD trigger clamps. Will they last 100 years, no way, but I've been using them to glue my workbench tops lately, and it's amazing how well they work.... just dont get glue in trigger mechanism lol.
Excellent. You have saved me some money buying clamps I don't need and making me aware of clamps I could use but did not know about. Thank you!
Great, clear information as usual. I like to use old bike inner tubes for some glue ups. Infinitely adjustable, flexible, and almost free.
Just what I was looking for, thank you!
Spanish windlass is considered a device more for setting traps or a windlass a nautical device for lifting, more of what a luthier would use. In our shop growing up in the 60's the craftsman in our shop referred to it as twine and dowel it is more closely related to a tourniquet style of clamping and banding. I made a comment because a lot of younger wood workers may not have been taught how to do a lot of the old ways of doing things .It is also a very affordable way of doing tasks. Maybe you just gave the content creators here a good topic to cover a series of instructional videos on some of the older ways or more traditional ways of doing things for the people that have a smaller tool budget or perhaps prefer to do everything by hand instead of power tools and gadgets.
As with most tools, it's all in how you use them. I imagine we've all done some pretty creative clamping- perhaps Stumpy might put together a video on the subject.
Personally, in addition to my assortment of clamps, I keep a 5 gallon pail filled with wedges. I've used various lead blocks (ballast salvaged from boats), rope, ratchet straps, hose clamps and threaded rod. I've made spring clamps by splitting short sections of pvc pipe, and for oddly shaped glue-ups, I've had good results with the rolls of stretchy plastic wrap sold next to the moving boxes and packing supplies.
This was very handy for me. Thank you.
This informative video was quick and to the point. Excellent!
Great job on the clamps vid.
As a newb woodworker, I was not aware there were so many types of clamps. Thanks!
Thanks for the great video James!
Thanks for an excellent video James. There is a lot of good info in here.
Built a new set of gardens stools and a table this summer and the right-angled mitre style clamps were invaluable for holding large, heavy panels in place to mark and screw in brackets. I wouldn't be without them now. Between them and a few pistol grips, the whole project went like a dream. European translation - What we call G-Clamps and Sash Clamps are referred to as C-Clamps and Bar Clamps here.
Really like your videos! Much useful info and delivery is easy going. Thanks!
Thanks for the clamps advice. very simple when you talk about each type 'side by side' and their respective uses. Off to buy a few F clamps (don't have any of these), and a couple of parallel clamps. Really like these but they are some expensive. Thanks again for the video. kmdc in Oz
Saw this at the right time. Thank you.
A clamp that I recommend, that for years I didn't know was missing is the corner clamps for picture framing, they get involved a lot where it wouldn't seem they are useful.
Thanks for the great video on clamping types. I am going to invest in some of the different ones you introduced
EXCELLENT, James. Trial and error gets expensive for a newbie. I haven't sprung for parallel clamps or pipe clamps yet. But I have a variety of styles and sizes, 4 of each. My favorite changes with each project. Thanks for convincing me I'm not crazy.
Pipe clamps are inexpensive. Get them at HF, HomeDepot or Rockler (when they are on sale). The pipe is cheap at HD.
After watching this, I was surprised my clamp collection pretty much matched your recommendations. Except yes, I still have 4 packages of bar clamp ends that have never seen a section of pipe. Great recommendations, and always appreciate your content. Side note, the pistol grips from Harbor Freight were always abysmal, but I noticed after a recent visit that they had significantly improved, with more glass fiber in the moldings, and a steel release mechanism replacing the old plastic button. Not high end by any means, but nice to supplement my go-to Irwins. And very affordable to add that extra hand when needed.
Good work. Thank you. I’m looking to invest in some clamps for my new workshop here in réunion island
Thanks. I am going to be adding a second shop at my snow bird location and this will help me think about how to outfit that shop.
Excellent video. I wish I had seen this video a year 2 years ago when I first got into woodworking. I retired and wanted to learn wood working. Seems I invested a lot into clamps that I haven’t used in 2 years. Now that I’ve watched the video I’ve seen a few clamps I’ve needed and some clamps I have way too many of. Now I can reorganize my clamp rack putting the ones I don’t need or use in the storeroom. Thanks for another great video. Keep up the great work.
Another great video. Thank you!
You are awesome at explaining! Thank you!
Thank you so much this was so helpful!
Good presentation! Thank you!
Spot on, excellent tutorial!
Perfect video great summary at the end
Thank you for this video. I'm going to need bar clamps for an upcoming project but didn't know their name.
Not mentioned, but cam clamps are quite useful. I use them primarily for small boxes that don't require a lot of pressure. I believe they are the main-stay clamps for luthiers.
I know it's been out for a while but totally agree with you James!
I keep my clamp screws oiled for easy/smooth operation. Also a drop of oil in the foot socket keeps them from seizing.
I had that same thought. I imagine he knows that as well, but he was probably just relating a learning experience he's had, or throwing out some info for those who might not know.
Many years in a shop making cabinetry, along with the occasional furniture piece, these are the clamps used most: For larger pieces, the pipe clamp was the clamp of choice, and some heavy steel bar clamps often used as well. Aluminum bar clamps? About as durable as a plastic gun barrel, these NOT CHEAP, very nice looking clamps would bend so easily that they were a joke. The pistol grip "Quick Grip" clamps were fantastic, as they were surprisingly strong, easy to adjust, and very light weight. As soon as we had those in the shop, they were the go-to clamp for anything not requiring long length and/or a task requiring the greater force of the pipe or steel bar clamps.
I would highly recommend the Quick Grip (or any similar, well-made, pistol grip clamps) to any wood worker.
I have seen videos of people inserting wood inserts into their aluminum clamps for added strength but yet be lighter than steel, Paul Sellers I think had a video on this. Guess it depends on how much you want to fiddle with your clamps to make them useful
I greatly appreciate those priceless "Tricks of the Trade" as I am a certified welder of 19yrs and I am wanting to further my woodworking skills.
Joseph Miller raises a very good point about “parallel clamps”. I am willing to suppose that they are parallel before they go to work, and that they will stay parallel if they are applying no pressure to the work. Most operations, we leave the pressure applied while glue dries. Any force applied by a bar clamp deflects that bar, do not kid yourself. Deflected bar equals unparallel jaws, no ifs, ands, or buts. I suppose that when clamping up case goods, you could back off the screw completely after squeezing up, and the carcase will be held together without lozenging, I’ll give ‘em that. I call that really light duty. But for general clamping, I would really prefer that the pressure I apply with the foot and the swivel is positioned to travel right down the center of the stock, for example when gluing up a panel or tabletop. These so-called parallel clamps will concentrate the pressure at the skin of the stock (and don’t inform me about alternating sides, please). This is why when using bar clamps (with a real bar, not those silly pipe clamps) to edge clamp up some boards I use some method at the foot of the clamp to center the pressure, such as a quick double bevel from the jointer on the outermost board. The screw end of the clamp can usually locate its pressure without any help. Ripping the panel to size afterward, anyway. For stock I want to protect, I keep a caul handy with that double bevel on it.
Sage advice Mr. Stump
I can't believe that I have almost the exactly same type and quantities of clamps you recommend, only few more trigger clamps. Working very well for me. Thanks for the good education as always.
Enjoyable, informative content. Thank you.
Your videos are really great. Really great! Thanks!
Thank you. I really needed this video.
Thank you - I'm starting a pretty hefty investment into shop clamps and this intel is super valuable. Thank you very very much. Cheers from Wisconsin.
I am building my first bread board table this Summer & will need the 48-56 inch parallel clamps & I am starting a pipe clamp(3/4) for wood & metal work.
Thanks for the video.
Yeah pistol grip clamps are my favorite as well. I use them for everything, even lots of tasks outside the shop. One of the most convenient and useful tools in my opinion. I have a small one in pretty much every room of my house because I’m always reaching for them for some reason or another.
I would also like to say thank you for the information you are posting in your videos. I truly think you have saved me a bunch of money as I would have purchased the wrong things for the right reason.
I'm just getting started and want to buy some basic things. This was the best of several utube sites so I bought the recommended clamps. Thank you.
Thank You!!… The pistol grip and f clamps are my leading candidates
Great video! Thanks!
I made a set of clamps for a panel glue-up by getting 6 M10 screws/pins that are 1m long, some nuts and washers. I cut few 60mmx40mm rectangles with two 10mm holes for the screws. Each is 20mm thick. I use those to connect two screws in parallel, on one end of each screw there are two nuts and a washer to lock that end. I place the panel between those plywood "bridges" and clamp them with washers and nuts. Works great and is cheap, but a bit tedious to use. But with one set of those "clamps" and some additional bridges, nuts and washers I can clamp more panels, one next to another. And I also have some M10 screws thar are 2m long...
I have an inventory of most clamps, some collect dust but are used from time to time. I use alot of band clamps for making float frames and good quality pistol grip are my go-to clamps. I haven't seen parallel clamps in our area. Certainly on my wish list. Great video.😊🇨🇦
Good job! I enjoy the very useful information and the excellent "bed side manner" of the host
I'm happy to hear you say that it's possible to have too many of something, especially clamps. Steve at Woodworking For Mere Mortals recently did a clamp video, and he also said it is possible to have too many of them. I have been in spots where I wished I had more clamps, but I usually have enough. The deficit has never been more than a handful, and I should pick up a few more. But even then, my set won't be very big. If I wanted to, I could go old school and just use rope and wedges for several types of jobs.
Good video. The variety shown was very informational !!! Keep your wood clean & dry !!!😮
Great video! I bought a huge lot (over 100 not including spring) of clamps from a gentleman who was retiring - he was one of those guys who would go to garage sales and buy clamps any time they see them. Every kind of clamp imaginable. I agree with the points you made in this video, and have a similar setup of clamps I use most.
Such a patchwork collection was great for understanding the differences between good and bad brands, too. I think it explains some of why some people hate some clamps - they might have tried a cheaper version of the product. Trigger clamps for instance, the cheap modern Irwin clamps are just okay, but some of the pricier brands or older models (with less plastic) can exert almost as much pressure as a parallel clamp.
This was a great video... If I was ever in your shop, It would take me at least a week because I would have to touch and handle every single tool you have on the back wall.. I love all old hand tools..
Just used a Kreg pin end clamp for pocket hole assembly - worked great.
So very much on point. F clamps takes the lead indeed.
I REALLY don't like using them, I only use them here and there for welding when I have no other choice. I way prefer my pistol grip clamps. Use them all the time for holding working pieces to be processed by whatever needs to be done.
I’d say my favorite are f clamps…I really don’t have use for any strong strong clamps,but it’s always good to have a variety just in case.
Great video as always 👊🏼
Two more clamp styles I've found useful are spool clamps and cam clamps. Both are popular with luthiers, but I've found the deep reach of the cam clamps useful for non-luthier projects as well. The spool clamps are more specialized, and I've only used them for gluing up acoustic guitars. Both are rather pricey, but are pretty easy to make yourself. I even developed a cam clamp that is 3D printable, but it still needs a little tweaking before I post it somewhere.
I have a couple of deep throat clamps for Luther’s work. Designed to be installed in the hole of an acoustic guitar to clamp down the bridge to the top. It’s amazing how handy these are for other, non guitar jobs when you need to reach farther in from the edge for a glue-up. They are available in a few different reach lengths.