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re: Pinching Rod
For any shoppers, Veritas has what I feel are the very best ones for peeps not wanting to do metal machining. They call them 2 different things. One they call pinch rods. The other they call bar gauge heads.
Pop WWing has had a few articles on how to make them over the years.
Out of wood. I can no longer find the meatal made one. Perhaps they had to withdraw it due to whoever REED is??? First I saw this name was on the Wood by Wright site. See below.
Wood by wright has some he sells, but also kind of illustrates the roll your own method if you read between the lines. Same as the older Pop WWing look, at 3/4" square brass stock, your piece is chopped off to 1' or 1.5", drill a 1/4 - 20 sized hole and tap it to whatever thread pitch you can find with the biggest, easiest to grasp head on it, and Bobs yer Uncle. A pair is easily made in a short time.
My bad it wasn't Popwwing it was Chris's Lost art Press.
Using that there are a few easy to follow You tubes of the doing what I just described. Most all of them have broken the 10 minute rule, but if you follow along, you might want to nudge that progress bar if they start into too much blah blah blah.
I have absolutely no idea where I got them, but I also have a set that has several tips, pointy, chisel shaped, and some hooks that run off of 3/8" diameter rod, so you just cut to length, and I have another that provided the rod. Not sure if those are still out there, mine are 10 years old or so.
Making your own hardware you just need to plane down some stock, so 2 pieces can lie atop each other, JUST loose enough so they also slide easily, but not sloppily. Lengths can be what you want, but you will sooner or later find out that you will at least need a short set, and a longer one if you start using them all the time. I have a ton of those dreaded tape measures, I only use them anymore for rough length cutting. Way too many times a 3 and 11/16 has turned into chit, and 5/32s. Not really that bad, but if you have done much of this, you have messed up a measurement, or applied it incorrectly to the board you are cutting.
Using story sticks of a project, and these rods to measure inside, you will find there is nothing to read, and everything will be tighter, and a lot easier.
The Rockler story stick kit, can also be made to work for pinch rods.
Pop WWing has had a few articles on how to make them over the years.
Out of wood. I can no longer find the meatal made one. Perhaps they had to withdraw it due to whoever REED is??? First I saw this name was on the Wood by Wright site. See below.
Wood by wright has some he sells, but also kind of illustrates the roll your own method if you read between the lines. Same as the older Pop WWing look, at 3/4" square brass stock, your piece is chopped off to 1' or 1.5", drill a 1/4 - 20 sized hole and tap it to whatever thread pitch you can find with the biggest, easiest to grasp head on it, and Bobs yer Uncle. A pair is easily made in a short time.
My bad it wasn't Popwwing it was Chris's Lost art Press.
Using that there are a few easy to follow You tubes of the doing what I just described. Most all of them have broken the 10 minute rule, but if you follow along, you might want to nudge that progress bar if they start into too much blah blah blah.
I have absolutely no idea where I got them, but I also have a set that has several tips, pointy, chisel shaped, and some hooks that run off of 3/8" diameter rod, so you just cut to length, and I have another that provided the rod. Not sure if those are still out there, mine are 10 years old or so.
Making your own hardware you just need to plane down some stock, so 2 pieces can lie atop each other, JUST loose enough so they also slide easily, but not sloppily. Lengths can be what you want, but you will sooner or later find out that you will at least need a short set, and a longer one if you start using them all the time. I have a ton of those dreaded tape measures, I only use them anymore for rough length cutting. Way too many times a 3 and 11/16 has turned into chit, and 5/32s. Not really that bad, but if you have done much of this, you have messed up a measurement, or applied it incorrectly to the board you are cutting.
Using story sticks of a project, and these rods to measure inside, you will find there is nothing to read, and everything will be tighter, and a lot easier.
The Rockler story stick kit, can also be made to work for pinch rods.
