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Ed, your clamp must be hiding with my 4mm hex wrench that I use to swap the jaws on my lathe chuck. Current project grinding to a stop!

I suppose that we all have a supply of gadgets that we seldom use.
Here are 5 of mine. I probably have about that many more stuck back in drawers or boxes etc. I know that I have a few web clamps with corner blocks.
The black framing clamp is a Craftsman and has jaw inserts that move or remove to give you several angles.
The big one is a Marsh and it like the Craftsman will swivel and tilt. It originally had a back-saw mount like a regular miter-box but the hollow post at the center of the inside corner has broken off. I bought it that way at a yard sale for about $2 and it is still quite useful as it is. It's very heavy and will clamp a 4" wide board. In that one once it is clamped it isn't going anywhere. I have thought about cutting the other post off but thinking about it is as far as I have gotten. Its patent date goes back well over 100 years.
The little corner clamps I have not used in at least the last 20 years.
I don't recall if I have ever used the red one or not.



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I was in the Harbor Fright store the other day and happened to walk by the corner camps and for the $10 or so I picked one up. It is plastic which is what I expected. It also flips over and will hold round stock in that mode, who knew? I have not used it on a project but I think it will work so long as it strained too much.

I got out a pair of the rockler clamps and they fit the old corner clamp I have and are snug but fit the new HF clamp. In the picture below the blue clamps are the rockler ones.

The other two clamps pictured are I believe the ones that I got when I purchased either the small red vice or the corner clamp or perhaps one came with each tool??? Any way those are the clamps that I was looking for and mentioned in an earlier post.
Ed