My most expensive clamp...

[Jim Becker]

This comes under the "do what you need to do to get the job done" category. :)

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My bench was occupied by a large table top and on top of that were the two cabinet doors I installed glass in for a client. No clamping going on there. My CNC was in use working on an inlay project. No clamping going on there, either. That same inlay project required some panels to be laminated. What to do? Clamp up the "sandwich" on the slider wagon using the cam clamps and a couple of Bow-clamps. :D Whatever works... ;)

[Dick Mahany]

Oh great.........I'm always running out of clamps and tables, so now I finally have an excuse to present to the CFO why I need a slider :D

[Monte Milanuk]

I think the most expensive clamp up I've done to date involved about twenty 100 ct boxes of Berger 200.20X .30 cal match bullets... at about $50-ish per box, total weight somewhere around 57 lbs. Turned out pretty well ;)

[Chris Fournier]

My most expensive clamp is the one I don't have when the glue up is live and compromised. I'd pay anything right then. Of course dry glue ups sort this $$$ beast every time!

[Jim Becker]

My most expensive clamp is the one I don't have when the glue up is live and compromised. I'd pay anything right then. !

True dat!!! Murphy's Law at it's finest there, too!

[Rick Potter]

I had guessed what it would be just from the title. Good juju maybe.

[Charles Lent]

I frequently use gravity, assisted by using some old 20-30 lb transformers and lifting weights. A few transformers in the right places helps gravity quite well. It sometimes pays to have been an EE in a former life.

Charley

[Rich Engelhardt]

I parked a $30K van on top of the two pieces of 3/4 inch plywood I used for my router table's top.

W/any luck, that will be exceeded come this September when I get that $50-something -K Ford pick 'em up!
Man I love that truck! I drive by the Ford dealer & stop to stare at the one inside....

[Mike Cutler]

Okay Jim, now the big question.
Did it work???

[Jim Becker]

Yea, it worked great, Mike. Pretty darn flat for sure and there should be a good bond between the MDF and the ash so that when I cut the male inlay pieces out of it, things should stay together.

[Brian W Smith]

"Bakers scaffold" = knock down case clamp.

They even make a great framework for a roll around spraybooth filter housing.

[Bill Adamsen]

Clever. And you can still crosscut with the saw! Maybe even narrow rips.

[Jim Becker]

Clever. And you can still crosscut with the saw! Maybe even narrow rips.
Yea, crosscutting with the outrigger would be a no brainer. But ripping would have been a challenge without removing the outrigger because of the fence extending right to the cut line. That said, I wouldn't have done that anyway and since it was just over-night, there was no disruption.

[David Utterback]

The title conflicts with the saying at the bottom of your posts. I thought the post would be along the line of inexpensive tools....:)