"Safety" A Clamp - It made Issue 103 of Shopnotes

Okay, I like that alot. Very cool.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

Great idea, simple construction. Very practical.

Thanks much!

-- When my wife ask's what I have to show for my wood working hobby, I just show her the splinters.

Great invention, Gary!

The thing I hate about most push sticks is that you never feel like you have good control of the material. This solves that problem wonderfully.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

That is so cool. The design is great! Very inovative.

-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"

Gary.

That is very clever. Thanks for taking the time to blog this and provide plans and the video. You should submit this to a magazine.

Finewoodworking just had a video where a guy was cutting large panels using a bar clamp to hold it. I don’t like putting metal near the blade.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Way cool, Gary. No Grrr-ipper needed!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Excellent. Thanks for sharing.

-- Doug, woodworking in Alabama

Thanks Gary great idea. It will become project4 on my list

-- Nick , North Carolina

I’ll put that one my first to do list once I get my shop back.

Thanks Gary.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Gary, another winner.

-- Bruce from Central New York

Outstanding. I love homemade jigs/tools. I could definitly use one of those. It reminds me of one of those things a brick mason carries a bundle of briicks with.

-- Bill from Lithia Springs, GA I love the smell of sawdust in the morning.

Are you sure your name isn’t McGyver? LOL Pretty neat idea Gary, I’m amazed at your brain. mike

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

thats an awesome design and implementation. makes safety even cooler ;)

-- When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.

Sweet Gary. That is just Grrrreat.

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

“There’s your 1/8” piece; you can sit there and do it all day long.”

That’s just perfect!

-- Gary, Florida

Another GaryK blog added to my favourites.

Thanks Gary!

-- ...it's rennovation time!!!

Most excellent Gary! Great use of what would otherwise be wasted. Thanks for all the construction details too! I’m just off to prepare some .pdf templates for my entry.

[big grin]

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems

Gary
another amazing project posting. you should patent this one.
Regards
DAN

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Gary, I agree with the others on two counts. First this is a fantastic. Second you should patent it. This could save many of us from losing body parts. If you decide to make any to sell, let me know.

you need to send that plan into some of the magazines, it may just score you a sweet piece of equipment.

-- If you can't build it, code it. If you can't code it, build it. But always ALWAYS take a picture.

Very cool!!.... and dang it, now I’ve got ANOTHER GaryK thing to make!.... lol…

Great Job Gary!

—Steve

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

Great idea. Thanks for sharing and thanks for the PDF so we can “leverage” your work.

-- Garyb6, “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler” - Albert Einstein

Great work!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Gary-
That is a neat looking tool. And the good thing about it is when your not using it in the shop, you can be using it to catch those east Texas rattlesnakes. :)

Thanks for posting the info and if you find out what kind of wood that was, let me know. As I have about 20 bd ft.

-- MISSION FURNITURE-My mission is to build furniture

Cool looking clamps and some nice wood.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I’ve tried what Gizmo mentioned in using a bar clamp. Metal near a blade makes me scared as well. Gary, very creative, to say the least. Thorough post. Love the video, template, and shot by shot steps. Thanks for the time put into it.

-- Jeff, South Carolina

Brilliant! Going for the win again, I see. Nice design and functionality.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Ang galing naman talaga!

-- "Real jocks do it on a bench"

really cool … I must repeat ! really cool ….

I nominate this one to make Fine Woodworking !!!

Anyone 2nd that nomination ?

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Very nice invention Gary, looks great, Very good build.

-- Mike, Bruce Mississippi = Jack of many trades master of none

Gary thanks for sharing this project and the templates. Ingenious!!

-- Gary, South Central Wisconsin. So much to learn, so little time!

Gotta make one, gotta make one, gotta make one.

That’s great. Thanks.

-- Getting to be an antique - been there, done that, can't remember!

The ultimate push block/stick. That is a perfect idea. Much better control of the work piece. Excellent idea

SWEET!!!!!!!!!

-- Matt, Houston Texas

Just looking at the wood, it looks like Apitone (may not be spelled correctly) we use apitone stacking stick at the mill, because they could be run through the kilns several times before ruin , and they were very hard. I think they came from Asia also

-- Mike, Bruce Mississippi = Jack of many trades master of none

Suits Lefties as well, great!.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

I nominate you to be LJ mentor #1 I doubt if any can’t learn a lot from you.

-- RTB. "dumb animals are not stupid they simply can't talk "

Another great item made by you.

Whoever you worked for, sure must miss you a lot.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

This is a good invention but I’m just not sure what the purpose is. Does it do something that a push stick and a finger board can’t or is it just intended to be easier to use?

Very sweet tool/jig. So practical for zero clearence cuts and much more. I look forward to making a few. So would it be called a tool or jig? I filed the PDF in the LJ Jig Folder. Gary have you tested different hole placing in the handle area? Thanks for shari9ng this PDF file and video with us.

-- Jerry, Set in the foothills of the Smokey's

Fantastic idea! I am going to have to make one of these!

-- It's better to have people think you're stupid rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Great design! Looks like I’ve got something new to build this weekend… thanks!!

Gary,

Great design. It should be submitted to FWW.

Dalec

Great idea! Thanks for the PDF templates. I think I’ll have to make myself one.

-- - Ray

Rob – It provides infinitely better control over your workpiece and the offcut

Just one example: suppose your piece starts to bind the blade? Try pulling it back with a just push stick.
This will allow you to pull the piece out with perfect control.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Yes Griff. Could be “Apitong”. It’s real hard wood.

-- "Real jocks do it on a bench"

awesome!

I’ll buy 2 LOL or the plan

-- There is no such thing as a mistake. Its called a design modification Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

Rick – Show me the money! :-)

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Very cool. I could use something like this.

-- I never started a project I couldn't screw up.

Good luck in the contest Gary.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Hi Gary.
I like the jig very much. I have a number of fixed jigs for ripping small work-piece of different sizes. This idea surely never hit my up-stairs at that time, and ever after..
Thanks for the templates. It shall be in my to-do lists.

-- Regards, Woodworm - KL, MY.

Nice clamp Gary. Well thought out design and well built. I’ll have one for my shop.

-- Chuck, Sparta, Tennessee, http://sarkon.net/poppopshop/

Gary I would have to say that is a absolutely the best and simple solution that I have seen thanks ….. I not sure but you might need to paten that one before the plastic versions start hitting the shelves

great job you deserve to win

Barry

someones trying to give Niki a run for his money in the McGyering/jig dept for sure. you have submitted the plans to FWW by now, right?

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I have some good news.

This will be in Shopnote Issue #103.

It also won the editors choice so I get a Bosch Impact driver (model PS40-2).

Pretty cool!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

GaryK,

Hey that is great, congratulations…

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

Awesome Gary! Can’t wait to see it when it comes in!

-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"

Yahoo! Fame and fortune…

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

WOW, Gary this is awesome. Great ingenuity!!! I’m going to have my son make this. He is always scared of the table saw. I’m printing the drawings right now. Thanks Gary.

-- Dennis Zongker

Shop notes ! Congratulations !

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Just received Shop Notes #103 in the mail today – Congratulations!

Just got my copy in the box today. Thought it looked awfully familiar. :) You’ll love the Bosch. I won one from WoodSmith an issue ago and it is becoming my go to driver. Little loud, though. Still haven’t built this clamp yet. I like my fingers (all ten), so it seems like it would work very well. Still work well for you>?

-- Jeff, South Carolina

Jeff – That Bosch tool is very nice. I already had one that I reviewed here, so I gave this one to my wife. She likes doing things around the house.

The clamp is working great. I find it to work extremly well with small parts like those in the following projects.
It saves me the trouble of making speciality fixtures for every small part I make.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Good job (as usual) Gary. Congrats on making it into Shop Notes.

Thanks rikkor.

I also wanted to mention to everyone that that this also works for holding parts on machines other than just the table saw.

Router table
Belt sander
Jointer
Bandsaw…

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Fantastic invention , Gary …..I hope to be making one soonto use on my Jointer and Belt Sander …Thank you so much : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belongs to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

Gary
Great invention, and thanks for posting the plans for us to use. I just finished mine and it works great.

-- Measure three times, cut twice.

Swwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Great job, im gonna try and make one for myself tomorrow if i have time :D

-- My signature is awesome.

just downloaded your templates .
thanks for this , anything to improve shop safety !
this is why i joined this site .
your projects are awsome !
good work .

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

OK, I am SO making this! What an ingenious design! Thanks for sharing.

-- Trent Tidmore, Grapevine, TX

Gary, a friend of mine made your jig and brought it to a woodworking class I was teaching. I was impressed by how well it worked. I really like all ten of my fingers. Great design. Keep up the good work.

-- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools!