Jim Jakosh commented about 8 hours ago Pretty good ideas for improvement. I was thinking, a person could also thread those holes and bolt them down to a bench with a bolt from the bottom and the area would be clear of any clamps.
Most woodworkres have used these clamps... in fact most get them at the beginning of the woddie adventure as they remind people that we are woodworkers... and then we graduate to those quick-action/pipe/diversified-gizmo clamps. In the meantime, most veterans have devised clever, if not devious, ways to utilise their screw clamps...
I posted this thread to get some ideas swapped for both new and old (veteran) clamping battlers.
The thread idea sounds great. My initial concern was that clamping could destroy the threads (whether tapped or inserts), however, making my own handles and tapping/threading them on the rods (with a removable pin) the jaws could be swapped out... or better still make some dedicated threaded ones... I keep forgetting they can be built outside the Taylor's kits.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
