Wordless Project ** Hold Down Clamp **

fjimp · Post by **fjimp** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 8:35 pm

Great job Ed. I always enjoy the simplicity of challenges you offer. I have built a few hold downs myself over the years. Unfortunately mine don't always look as symmetrical as yours. Jim

paulmcohen · Post by **paulmcohen** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:33 am

dusty wrote:I don't think so! Not if you cut the mortise before you cut the profile of the hold down.

Agree because of the curve, but I plan on using my router table and just drilling the two holes and then routing a grove between them, if I need more depth just flip the piece over. That said I have 3" long straight router bits I use for template routing so I don't think flipping will be necessary.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 5:23 am

paulmcohen wrote:Agree because of the curve, but I plan on using my router table and just drilling the two holes and then routing a grove between them, if I need more depth just flip the piece over. That said I have 3" long straight router bits I use for template routing so I don't think flipping will be necessary.

Make certain that your router bits are "plunge" bits. Significant difference between pattern bits and plunge bits.

tgamel · Post by **tgamel** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:43 am

reible wrote:OK 4 clamps done.

I should also mention I pretty much free handed a sketch of curved part, I don't always follow plans very well and again I did not feel that part needed to be just that shape. The bandsaw was used to get the general shape and then I sanded to the line (sort of).

The stop block is also different, the bottom piece on mine is thicker then the plans. For my project this seemed like it might work better, if not I can always make another set of them.

Ed

That's why they call them hand made, each one an original

. They look great and you saved $40.00 by making them yourself and not buying them from Rockler or Harbor Freight. I know it's kind of weird, but making smalls like these out of scrap that can help me around the shop always makes me feel good. I made of bunch of wooden hand screw clamps for less than $2.00 apiece out of leftover pine about 15 years ago and still use them today. At the time all I had was my table saw and a cheapo drill press from Northern Tool so the finish is not great but the work well. Now that I have the SS, maybe I will clean them up a bit and as my granddaughter says "make them more purdy"!

alisfair · Post by **alisfair** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 9:28 am

Thanks for taking the time to show us what and how one can do this!

Ed in Tampa · Post by **Ed in Tampa** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 1:44 pm

Ed you missed a step in the pictures. In post 17 you start out with the hold down cut to general shape and going to be sanded but you never showed them being cut to shape on the band saw. You show the slot be cut out in post 3.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:22 pm

Ed in Tampa wrote:Ed you missed a step in the pictures. In post 17 you start out with the hold down cut to general shape and going to be sanded but you never showed them being cut to shape on the band saw. You show the slot be cut out in post 3.

Some things are left to the 'reader!:D

heathicus · Post by **heathicus** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 3:16 pm

Great tutorial. The "wordless" aspect worked great. The pictures spoke their thousand words.

Ed in Tampa · Post by **Ed in Tampa** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 3:24 pm

JPG40504 wrote:Some things are left to the 'reader!:D

Ah but in the wordless work shop a picture of every step is included and the exact how is left to the reader.

farley · Post by **farley** » Thu Aug 01, 2013 7:57 pm

Thanks Ed
The wordless workshop, reminds of a cartoon years ago that appeared in the newspaper called " wordless workshop"'

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