Wood working clamps

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tstex

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Are any of these type of clamps worthwhile investing in for holding 3/4” & 1” boards? Thank you very much.
 

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What are you trying to hold? That looks like a gimmick IMO.
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On second look, the clamping force is by some chinsey springs. 4570's gimmick is my opinion also.
 
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I think that thing is a “jig” and meant to hold pieces in place while real clamps or nails are used to fasten.
 
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My advice is to stick with clamp models which have been in production for years, and buy them from known and reputable manufacturers.

When I was younger, I bought all different kinds of low cost clamps from a bunch of screwball manufacturers. Most of them didn’t work well.

I started to make more money and have more discretionary money. I started buying known styles of clamps from known manufacturers. They work, and are easy to use. The ones I had been buying werent inexpensive. They were cheap, as in ”of poor quality and utility, thus low in cost”. And, in the end I spent far more money, because I have replaced all of them

It bothers me a bit when folks use cheap to mean inexpensive, so that now folks think they are synonyms. Cheap, means, “of poor quality, and utility, thus low in cost”.
 
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I think that thing is a “jig” and meant to hold pieces in place while real clamps or nails are used to fasten.
I think they are supposed to be clamps, and a mechanically sterile set dresser, or photographer, stuck them together rotated 180-degrees from how they would need to be set up to actually work.
 
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yes advertised as clamps and 180 degrees turned. But description also alludes to holding for screwing, nailing. They do not apply enough pressure to make a good glue joint even though they might be advertised that way too.

so reality is they might work as jigs…..

 
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I think they are supposed to be clamps, and a mechanically sterile set dresser, or photographer, stuck them together rotated 180-degrees from how they would need to be set up to actually work.
I would think you are right.
 
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Are any of these type of clamps worthwhile investing in for holding 3/4” & 1” boards? Thank you very much.
It would be easy to make some clamps like those shown and use a ratchet strap.

The picture shown has an incorrect orientation.
 

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