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
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

That I have used for many years. They also have Clamping System

that I have heard good things about.

[Mack Cameron]

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:

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??

[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.a...62&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