Thread: Sturdee Handscrew Clamps

sturdee,

why dont you use some more suitable timber for your clamps? i admire blokes who recycle and all, but im not sure if your components will cut the cheese over time. spending a bit more cash and a little more time with your materials will pay divideds in the long run. no offence or anything

Originally Posted by gatiep

Anyway both Peter and Ian, nice work. Peter I note that Triton still doesn't make lathes! Turned handles will really finish those clamps off nicely.
For tomorrow...Have a good week all.

Joe,

I've got a lathe , done some turning but it never grabbed my interest. I don't know if it is because it is green and not orange.

Maybe one day I'll make a copy attachment and it might get more of a workout.


Peter.

Just as a point on the Yankee Doodle Dandy I suppose after throwing so many insults it becomes difficult to apologise and eat humble pie but probably better he has gone into his hole and stays there.

Originally Posted by snappperhead

sturdee,

why dont you use some more suitable timber for your clamps?

Snapperhead,


Thanks for the comments. No offence taken.

It is funny that you should mention it just after I bought some blackwood at Vic Wood's garage sale for the marking gauges I am planning to build.

However I prefer to use recycled materials if possible, the waste not want not philosophy was drummed into me from an early age. If a bit of recycled timber does the job I will use it especially if the hardwood has been suitable aged like me.

Time will tell whether the timber in the clamps will last , if not I will rebuild them. This would not be a very great problem as it only took a day or two to make a dozen of each of the three types.


Peter.

Guys,
for some reason i feel compeled to apologise for that jerk (joe) . he's the kind of guy that run's around like a chicken with his head cut off, and i bet he's just an unhappy person all the time. most of us in the states are ashamed to find people like him (eg our president) giving us a bad name. we just want to be good husbands, dads and if we get the time, to make a piece of furniture as nice as major panic or rocker. so Peter, here's a big thanks from one yank who's read all your stuff and has used a lot of it.
-Ryan

Ryan,

No need to apologize for that jerk. I know that there are bad but also good guys in every country. Especially in America and we lately we have more good yanks joining this forum.

Trouble is that the bad are more pushy and vocal than the good guys.

The funny thing was that I was going to say yes to his request if I was satisfied that his website was kosher. However he did not allow any time for this checking. He also did not allow for the time difference and the fact that I don't sit in front of the computer all day.

His impatience and insults got him a refusal instead.

BTW I am glad that you enjoy my posts and find them usefull.


Peter.

Following the barage of insults across the "pond" I was intrigued to find out a little more about Joe. I had a look at his website and I couldn't help but notice Joe has an uncanny resemblance to ........... it took me a long while to work out who but I think I've found it. If Joe has a sense of humour I think he too will find this quite amusing.

Alex.



Can anyone name the character?

Now, Alex, have you been taking screen shots from p0rnos again? :eek:

Shame on you.

Can't help you with the character ID, not my flavour in movies mate, but to each his own


Cheers.........Sean

Alex, I hope you are referring to yankee joe.

Hey

Isn't that Godzilla, I saw him on the news last night.

Peter

I was looking at the clamps and like them. I have made similar. Instead of using t-nuts I threaded the wood. Also I cut slots to hold a nut frozen to the allthread with heavy mono line. That is for the end of the end thread and the handle end of the center thread. If you are interested, I could get a picture up for you. I also have made flip clamps and engineers clamps as well as small bar clamps from my old days as a guitar repairman.



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Darrell

Thanks for your comments and some photos would be appreciated.


Peter.

Definitely pictures please.


Especially the flip clamps, sounds kinda kinda

I am not sure how to post pictures on this forum. so here are a couple of links. First of all for a model maker's clamp or engineer's clamp

www.aroundthewoods.com/imgsclamp/im001249.jpg

Second a flip clamp
www.aroundthewoods.com/imgsclamp/im001250.jpg

Third a swing clamp or cabinet maker's clamp
www.aroundthewoods.com/imgsclamp/im001251.jpg

Nothing fancy here, just what works. I have been asked to put up a how to page on the site and I will do so when I get a chance.

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Darrell