Thread: Mini G clamps

I was making some ukuleles the other day and was using some very small G clamps to hold small bits of timber reinforcing cutouts for tuners etc and I had to do one side at a time because I only had 3 of them.
Thought gee I'd love to get my hands on some more .....
Not too expensive but the postage from England would have meant 3 tiny clamps for $100 - forget it!

Started scratching around thinking surely I have some random bit of metal that could do this.
As it turned out I had an Al extrusion that was made for it, even had holes pre drilled, just had to tap it out.
I then got a bit carried away and made more in different sizes from some 10mm Al bar
Used a 6mm stainless security screw to get the long thread and loctite in a thread coupler as the handle in final pic.
Largest of three originals is pictured with my builds, I did use a lathe to make the brass clamp foot but you could do the whole project with a drill press and hand tools. Scrap Al and under $10 for 5

Extrusion.jpg Underway.jpg Sample.jpg

The full set - I reckon I need some more smaller ones - back to the thread charts.

Full Set.jpg