Corner Clamps Suggestions Needed...

[Phil Winn]

I am thinking about buying some corner clamps---for picture frames, for boxes, etc, etc. Any suggestions? What about the Woodpecker products?
www.woodpeck.com/clampingmain.html (http://www.woodpeck.com/clampingmain.html)
www.woodpeck.com/index.html (http://www.woodpeck.com/index.html)
Any other products?
Thanks,
Phil

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

Making them may be both cheaper and better if you have unique needs.

[Doug Jones from Oregon]

I probably have, or have had, every corner clamp made by mankind and have found the following to be the most efficient, quickest, and most convenient clamps around.

http://www.clubframeco.com/frame_clamping_tools.html

As long as your joint is cut true, you will find these a joy to use and they are not horribly expensive. I have about 100 of them if that tells you about how much I like em!

Doug

[Mack Cameron]

Take a look at these from http://www.collinstool.com/base.php?page=home.htm Reasonably priced. I just love them and they work great!

[Lee Schierer]

I have a set similar to these:
Frame Clamp (http://woodworker.com/images/ss/71712.jpg)

That I have used for many years. They also have Clamping System (http://woodworker.com/images/ss/102-077.jpg)

that I have heard good things about.

[Mack Cameron]

I (http://I) have about 100 of them

Doug

Hi Doug; 100 of the wings or straps or what? Seems like an awful lot of corner clamps to me!, or did I miss something somewhere?

[glenn bradley]

I use these Jets (Bessy makes them too) as the BORG was blowing them out for $12 each:


http://www.internationaltool.com/images/56-ctn/709857.gif
Plenty of grip and dead-on square.

[Doug Jones from Oregon]

Mack...I have a production frame business and we also do production boxes.

I no longer use them for the frames because I have a underpinner, but, when we build boxes, it takes 2 per box and we often run production of 300-500 at a time...so not enough string clamps at all!

Doug

[Chris Padilla]

Mack...I have a production frame business and we also do production boxes.

I no longer use them for the frames because I have a underpinner, but, when we build boxes, it takes 2 per box and we often run production of 300-500 at a time...so not enough string clamps at all!

Doug

Doug, that web page you posted has a few differnent corner clamps...which ones are the ones you like or have a hundred of?? :confused:

[Doug Jones from Oregon]

Chris...the cord clamp.

They come with 6 plastic corner pieces, thread the cord through, pull tight and in the first/final corner piece, you wedge the cord into a slot. There is enough stretch on the cord to put some pretty good pressure ...enough that I pick the product up, turn it over...

I don't like to put mechanical fastners in my boxes, glue/splines are enough so I use the clamps to hold the box together till the glue sets up.

Doug

[Mack Cameron]

Doug: I thought it had to be something like that. Thanks

[Steve Roxberg]

Phil,

I am signed up for the Woodpecker e-mail sales. The clamps are all on sale right now about $4 off on one of the styles you showed. Signup for their service, or if you order from them mention the sale.

[W Craig Wilson]

I can tell you one to stay away from - Rockler's Clamp-It. Very hard to juggle the square, two clamps and two sticks all at once. The bar clamps interfere with each other except for a very small range and two of the four bar clamps in my kit fell apart on first use. (Back of the clamp is only peened onto the bar.

[Mike Leonard]

I have the frame clamp set from Lee Valley which is very similiar to Lee Schierer's frame clamp. Simple, effective and inexpensive.


http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=31162&cat=1,43293

[Henry Cavanaugh]

Woodworkers Journal August 2005 has an review of corner clamps and besides ones mentioned above is one from Gross Stabil's Multi spanner MSP. The frame walls are 2 1/2" tall. Clamps corners or tees

[Brent Smith]

I use the same ones Mike and Lee use. They really allow you to finesse the miters together. I also find them great for dry fitting larger projects.

Brent

[Nissim Avrahami]

Hi Phil

You can make them yourself and using the tie-down strip they can fit to small and large frames, depends on the strip length you buy or have.

Please ignor the text, the picture is from another post.

niki

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f321/avrahami/Frame%20cutting%20sled/sld8.jpg

[Brent Smith]

Hi NissIm,

It's pretty much the same, but a big difference is that with the LV (or similar) clamp, you can adjust the tension at each corner individually. IMO it just makes it that much easier to dial in the miters to a perfect match and that much easier to square up the project.

Brent

[Nissim Avrahami]

Hi Brent

I’m only an amateur and I will not argue with you but, I live in Poland and LV lives in US, the price of the clamps + extensions + shipping + costumes tax + 22% VAT, will bring the price to something like 3 times the original.

If I may humbly, the picture is from “Frame cutting sled (45*)”, (my first post in SMC), the method of cutting the 45* is such that there is a very little room (if at all) to make mistakes with the angles or lengths. The one in the picture is just “out of the saw”.
Also, it looks to me that I can exert more pressure with the “up to 1000lbs” strap.

But, it’s a free world (well, almost) and everyone can do what it’s good for him.

Regards
niki

[Brent Smith]

Hi Niki,

You hit it on the head, whatever works, is the right way to go. I was just pointing out some of the reasons why I like the LV clamps. One of the great things about this hobby, or in some cases livelyhood, is that we all have our way of doing things. I like the clamps for the reasons I posted.

Exerting more pressure is great when needed. All I was saying is that with this sort of clamp is that the pressure, great or delicate, can be put where it is needed.

Brent