MIMF

Hello Again,

This is just a picture of yet another useful tool that is easily constructed. Once again, thanks to Sylvan Wells' site full of good tips. There is just no getting around it,,,sometimes you need an extra pair of hands and this portable clamping station does the trick.

I'm curios to see how many variations of this contraction there are in use.

Regards,
DJ

That's pretty close to what I use. I have non-crank ends of my pipe clams mounted inside the rail of my bench and the pipes go through a hole in the rail. When not in use, I can just push the pipes into the holes and only have the crank ends of the clamps sticking out of the bench (Or I can take the pipes out altogether if I need the space. I also use foam padding (like what furniture cushions would be made from) on the cauls so I don't need to worry about scratching the body up. The foam also helps prevent me from using too much clamping pressure. I also have my clamps a bit further apart such that the length of a guitar body will fit between them.

These setups and the related troji are great devices that really make prepping a body for binding much less annoying.

Bryan Bear wrote:That's pretty close to what I use. I have non-crank ends of my pipe clams mounted inside the rail of my bench and the pipes go through a hole in the rail. When not in use, I can just push the pipes into the holes and only have the crank ends of the clamps sticking out of the bench

I do this for a laminate neck clamping setup. Haven't tried it as a troji, yet.