Would you please give us a link for the UHMW tape, and data like brand, dimensions, has glue or adhesive backing? Thanks for a great pair of videos! My intended use for the UHMW tape (in addition to your proposed use), is to line sliding surfaces to reduce friction and "stick-slip" friction, like when making my DIY Track Saw from aluminum profile and needing the saw "sled carriage" for my circular saw to slide perfectly against the aluminum profile! Best regards from Mexico and let's keep designing and making those factory overexpensive accesories by ourselves!
Thank you for providing an oasis of sanity in an insane world of “You must buy all these expensive tools to be a woodworker.” I want to save my money for wood to make stuff, not have a super fancy workshop. You help me remember that and find ways to do it.
This is how my grandfather thought. I've always admired 'Redneck Engineering.' Just a few days ago I had an impossible seam to caulk. I jerry rigged up my own 'tool' with a straw, some wire, and some electrical tape. (Courtesy of youtube.) When I showed my husband my little hack - and my perfectly caulked seam - I was so proud of myself. He grumbled, "Don't they make an actual *tool* for that?" I smiled brightly and said, "They sure do! It's $16.99 plus tax from Amazon. I can grab one right now if you think that's better. Want me to remove the caulk I did and redo it with the right tool? It'll only add about three days to this job." His eyes widened and he said, "No. This is fine." My turn to grumble. "Then you'd better be REALLY happy and enthusiastic about my solution and tell me how great of a job I did or I'm buying it right now." To his credit, he did laugh and lavished praise upon my greatness. Honestly, we can all be nickled and dimed to death if we don't MacGyver what we can. I can't believe how fast the money goes out the window lately.
I've been in the construction business for nearly 50 years and never thought of using strut in my panel glue-ups. Thanks for the idea and you just got another subscriber.
I think you did an amazing job presenting your clamp ideas. Some were BRILLIANT. The one comment that said watching your videos was a waist of time among other things. That type of comments are uncalled for and demonstrates his level of thinking and how myopic his views truly are. I enjoyed your ideas and most of all your personality. Great ideas with a fantastic presentation. I subscribed to your channel. I let guys like you do the thinking and the planning for me. Good Job and very well done! Some people….. they are just simply better than than many of us. LIVE BIG & SPEND IT ALL. TS, PORTLAND
Great solutions - I already have pipe clamps so using them with struts will work perfect and better than the wooden cauls that I use. I loved that stratocaster scene - got a good laugh out of it!
great minds think alike. i came up with my own version of these after nearly choking to death on how much the rockler clamps cost a few years ago. I fabricated something very similar to the mechanism in the rocker clamps. That was a lot of work. I really like some of your ideas much better. 1-it’s quicker to modify a clamp, 2-Harbor Freight has cheap yet good clamps. I’m going to use your ideas when I need additional clamps.
Did this same thing with some "unistrut" I got for free and needed some panel clamps before watching this. I also use wood shims to hold the wood tight together and 1x blocks to keep the "unistrut" off of the panels I and gluing. It really does work great!! You had some great ideas to improve it and I will definitely add some.
I've been using this method too. I'm a retired plumber and had some laying around, so I gave it a try. I've never seen those square washers for strut before, so thanks for showing those. They'll be perfect. Subscribed.
I made these clamping cauls and LOVE them ! Now time to upgrade with some clamps I was wondering what I was going to use for! LOVE your ideas!! Now for a cheap easy drum sander.....lol
This was excellent. I love watching your videos progress in quality. The original idea was great but all your improvements brings it up to just genius. I will add to my list of things to make. Thanks for your work on this video.
Thanks very much. This video was cursed from beginning to end from a quality standpoint. Original audio wasn’t in sync, all the b roll was the wrong frame rate, you name it, everything went wrong. I am happy I could even finish it 😂
I think you can do a simpler solution than how you modified a G-clamp. Cut the head off an F-clamp and drill a hole big enough for the bolt to go through in the middle of the head, and put the bolt through. Tightening the F-clamp would provide pressure on both sides of the bolt due to the pivot point. I'd probably add a wooden braces to the screw piece (as you did on the G clamp) and also on the other end (where you cut). Fantastic research. Your last video had stuck in my head and I'd wanted to design custom end pieces, but you've shown that all you need is bolts, nut handles and F clamps.
this would be so much easier with a picture :). Ok, so you remove the head of an F clamp from the bar. Then you drill a hole in the middle of the f clamp head, between where the bar used to be and the turny handle thingumy is, thread the bolt through the hole. When you turn the handle it will push away from the boards as you tighten it, but that will cause the bar-end to pivot towards the boards, when it makes contact it will start applying even pressure at both ends. Probably worth padding out the "bar end" so that the head ends up approximately square when tightened.
@@SimonStevensakaSnetty interesting idea. Do you know of any drill bits that can penetrate that hardened steel? I probably snapped 20 bits making this video already 😂
Fantastic logic, and I love all the solutions you came up with. Not sure if it has been mentioned in the comments yet, but with the wedges you could use another clamp across to pull them together offering a more even pressure and much less likely to pop out...
This is a great set of ideas. I never knew there was hardware available for these things and I appreciate the cost consciousness. I'll definitely keep it in mind should I find myself in the need. Thanks a bunch for sharing.
Perfect I’ve been considering making these but in my mind thought something is missing, now I know what. For thin panels .25 thick this is a perfect solution, and the wedges will work. For thicker panels the clamps will suffice, point being glue it up move it out of the way, get more done!
What a coincidence, I made my superstrut cauls based on your other video just yesterday! Took me forever to find the video again, since I couldn't remember they were called cauls 😂
I was quite happy to see this video has i have 4 x 30" lengths of the shallow uni strut, left from a project that i've been wanting to do something with. Out of interest in the UK we call the spring nuts 'Zebs', after a childrens tv character called Zeberdee, who was on a show called the magic roundabout.
Very good content, entertaining and informative. Really good ideas presented repurposing those clamps to work with the struts. Very nice, sir. subscribed!
There is nothing I can add 🤯 , but an additional comment for the algorithm. Exceptional channel… I mean above and beyond well edited and thought through videos. Very entertaining and informative. Great way to start my day and as long as I can achieve well jointed edges, I’ll know what to do from there. Thank you 🙏🏼 if I’m not subscribed, I will be now. Great sponsor choice too. 👍🏼
Very nice. I love the way the wood working community has such fun sense of humor. I love the cameos in your video ...I think I am going to go out and get some of this material and keep it on hand ..
This is some of the most useful information I've seen on any woodworking channel. I'm going to build some clamping culls like these. Than you very much.
Excellent video. I've been experimenting with these struts and have used some to make an elevator in my (very small) shop. I love your ideas and hope you don't mind if I copy some.
Excelent video. Thank you for sharing these panel clamps. I have been on the verge of buying a couple of the Rockler sets every time I am in their store, this will save me.
Lee you are the man! I dig anybody who innovates anything. Like I always told the new guys in the autobody shops I worked at when it came to tools, The bolt doesn't care or know what tool you got it out with. Keep up the good work and forget the haters. I made the ones you previously showed and they worked awesome at a fraction of the cost. You rock brother!
On your first video I thought to myself I have seen this before, as I have had those in my shop for years and don't know where I got the idea. But this video - hands down original, you knocked it out of the park.
FYI, the channels are a little bit stiffer with the open side down than the flat side down. In other words, the centers are going to lift a little bit less with the open sides against the work.
use two wedges with an angle of 5 to 7 degrees on each wedge. this keeps the flats of the wedges parallel to the edge of the panel and the wedges will not work loose.
Definitely some nice improvements on an already great idea. I know I'll be improving mine first chance I get. Thanks, Lee. One suggestion, maybe add blue tooth to them. That way they are more high tech than the store bought.
If you double the height, it is close to 4 times as strong and not double. It is close 8 times as stiff. The stiffness is more critical than the strength for a situation like this.
Awesome stuff Lee! I'm just going out on a limb here and say that during the Stratocaster clip a mullet wig and a overly intense screaming guitar sound would have been a good touch (and 5 hours of your life you would never get back). I'm absolutely going to do this (not the mullet and guitar thing but the other glue up thingy) when I get to my next big glue up. Thank you and be well!
What a great video. All you supplied was solutions. Excellent stuff. I still use the ol tape edge wooden cauls, and all they do is bend. I’m way over due to for this upgrade haha, thanks duuuude! Love the attachment idea for any clamps too, just brilliant. 🤙
Lessons, Tips & Techniques... it's all in here. and I have those Metals but without holes in it, .. I'll just put holes and use it in my Wall Mount Folding Table project. Thank you sir.
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks for now I keep visualizing what to do to make an angle grinder slide using tubulars pipes without using wielding machine hehehe
wedging is the easiest way to exert entirely too much force. with a machinist c clamp style you can exert a force on the order of 10x invested. but with matched low angle wedges (like 6 to 1) you can exert 12 times effort invested. and if you apply a clamp to your matched wedges you're looking at 300 to 1 force applied. wedges are crazy.
Really great ideas. I was about to pick up the Fulton 4-way pressure clamps, but I think it'll be fun making yours. And if I add some plywood and a piano hinge, I might be able to make it a permanent attached to the wall solution. Hmmm.
How much pressure are people putting on cauls? If you need that much pressure to keep the panels flat there is no chance of the glue holding up. Great video and work around. That product seems to be incredibly more expensive in Canada but I will keep looking. Great idea and video.
@@Aaron-nj4ou thanks, appreciate it. It was evident from the comments I received in the first video that people are clamping down on glueups way too hard.
This is ingenious. An inexpensive clamping and caul system in one? I have been holding off on buying a lot of mid-sized and large clamps due to the cost. Something like this though, with its interchangeability of parts, is a great solution!
Hey Lee!! Great job on your video! I watched your first video on this and thought it was good! Your like many who want to find something better and cheaper. Obviously everyone who had negative thoughts are so much better than anyone else. Ignore the negativity! It looks like I might be relocating your way from SC by the first of the year. So hopefully I get to catch you at one of your meets! Keep inspiring those who enjoy your channel. Ingenuity is the start of something that becomes a trend. Stay safe and enjoy your journey!!
Mr. Busted Knuckles, Let’s ve and appreciate your videos and advice… Just completed my first large cutting board glue project using the SuperStruts but I did buy the PeachTree/Fulton 4 way clamps on their scratch n dent list… Thank You
I don't do a lot of panel glue-ups so I'm unlikely to need these. But having said that I really enjoyed your problem solving and presentation. Two thumbs up from me. Subscribed and watching for more of your content. And who knows. I may build them anyway. Just to have another jig/fixture to store. LOL.
The biggest problem that I find is that when I’m working on a project and need to strap something down, I don’t want to go fumbling through my shop, looking for strut, carriage bolts, c clamps to sacrifice to cut and drill, etc. I want everything at my disposal in a kit since most of the time, I am moving between job sites. It would really be cool to see a follow up video on how you organize in store all of this! Also, the ADHD in my wants to know what you did with the other half of the c clamps? 😂 what can you use those for now?
I'd agree with just keeping it all assembled, or alternately, all the galvanized or zinc coated metal parts would stick well to a cheap Harbor Freight magnetic strip.
Greatly appreciate your efficient and effective ideas. Would like to ask if you hav idea to use similar approach in gluing up wood rings or stacks of segmented rings for wood turning? A device that would ensure when stacking rings they stay centered? Thank you! David
I’m not a wood turner, so it’s not something I’ve ever tried to figure out. What I usually do is just hang around the hardware store or hardware websites and try to invent something in my mind, then just try it. It usually takes a lot of failed tries!
I really enjoy your videos and find them extremely useful. I hope you enjoy making them as much as I enjoy making them. However, I didn't understand the comment about not over engineering as that is one of my greatest joys!
Wow, this must have been an amazing amount of work. I love your ingenuity and presentation. You're definitely a smart and hard working RUclipsr. Best joke of the video: ultra high molecular weight! Best jokes not explicitly used: about 40 opportunities to add, "that's what she said."
Woodpeckers is so expensive because of its brand recognition. The tools are relatively inexpensive to manufacture (unless a company buys more expensive machine tools than required). More is likely spent on marketing than on manufacturing expenses.
The funny thing about all this is the original design is an alternative to expensive store bought clamps. Then the complaint is the cheap version doesn't have the same features. So then more money is spent to add to the design. There was a comment in there about 'no hardware', ignoring the fact that the strut is hardware and the f-clamps are hardware and the c-clamps are hardware. in the end it's an alternative to store bought clamp designed for the same thing. After some of those clamps are modified to be panel glue up clamps they can't be reused for anything else. There is not one solution to please everyone. You either keep generic pieces and put them together for the glue ups in a haphazard fashion, or you customize your clamp specifically to panel glue ups and nothing else. Each person has to decide if it is better for them and their workflow if they want pieces that are reusable in many processes but harder to assemble for each process or if they want specific tools that are optimized for specific processes.
@@scrager4 “No hardware” to me means no buying extraneous nuts and bolts and washers and stuff. Presumably the F clamps and squeeze clamps are things you already have, and you can still use them for their intended purpose on other projects.
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks I understood it at that point, then it went down the road of modifying all those clamps specifically for cauls without other clamps and you basically made a home made version of the expensive rockler by buying and modifying clamps that can no longer be used for their original purpose. My observation is that you can either have strut channel with some clamps that you can reuse for other things and it might be a little cumbersome to set up pipe clamps and cauls. OR you can have a customized caul+clamp that is dedicated to panel glue ups and requires you to spend more money on dedicated hardware. BUT you can't have it both ways. All in all, I appreciate the video. I would go the caul and separate clamps route myself. I think that the dedicated caul+clamp would be for people that make more panels than anything else or people with money and space to dedicate to specific tools.
"Solutions don't have to be over-engineered !!" As an engineer, I take offence at that !!... 😒🙄😂 I'll be strutting my stuff from now on, sir !.. From the Emerald Isle 😎👍☘️🍻
If you missed Part 1 of this video, here it is 😀 ruclips.net/video/vzhILT7axcA/видео.html
Would you please give us a link for the UHMW tape, and data like brand, dimensions, has glue or adhesive backing? Thanks for a great pair of videos!
My intended use for the UHMW tape (in addition to your proposed use), is to line sliding surfaces to reduce friction and "stick-slip" friction, like when making my DIY Track Saw from aluminum profile and needing the saw "sled carriage" for my circular saw to slide perfectly against the aluminum profile!
Best regards from Mexico and let's keep designing and making those factory overexpensive accesories by ourselves!
@@alfredomarquez9777 I will add a link to the description
This is awesome, a builder building their own tools again, like the old days :)
This is one of the most underrated woodworking channels on RUclips. Everything you put out is incredible! Keep it up!
I agree! Waaaaay underrated 👇
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks and look at this. You're a man of the people!
Thank you for providing an oasis of sanity in an insane world of “You must buy all these expensive tools to be a woodworker.” I want to save my money for wood to make stuff, not have a super fancy workshop. You help me remember that and find ways to do it.
Well said!
This is how my grandfather thought. I've always admired 'Redneck Engineering.'
Just a few days ago I had an impossible seam to caulk. I jerry rigged up my own 'tool' with a straw, some wire, and some electrical tape. (Courtesy of youtube.) When I showed my husband my little hack - and my perfectly caulked seam - I was so proud of myself.
He grumbled, "Don't they make an actual *tool* for that?"
I smiled brightly and said, "They sure do! It's $16.99 plus tax from Amazon. I can grab one right now if you think that's better. Want me to remove the caulk I did and redo it with the right tool? It'll only add about three days to this job."
His eyes widened and he said, "No. This is fine."
My turn to grumble. "Then you'd better be REALLY happy and enthusiastic about my solution and tell me how great of a job I did or I'm buying it right now."
To his credit, he did laugh and lavished praise upon my greatness.
Honestly, we can all be nickled and dimed to death if we don't MacGyver what we can. I can't believe how fast the money goes out the window lately.
I've used this for the last 30 + years for plumbing drains, water lines, and gas lines, unit heaters etc. and now I have another use for it, thanks.
Many, many uses for this stuff!
Great solution my dude. With that added C clamp, you’ve made a full on wood torture device!
@@Stillworks hmm 🤔 you’ve just given me an idea…
I've been in the construction business for nearly 50 years and never thought of using strut in my panel glue-ups. Thanks for the idea and you just got another subscriber.
Welcome aboard David 🫡
The idea to apply pressure on the horizontal axis is sooooo neat! Fantastic video!
Thanks bud!
Brilliant solutions! I especially like the wedges.
Can’t get more economical than that!
The wedges not being cool are why I like them so much!
@@scottreynoldsbuilder Wedges ARE cool!
@@scottreynoldsbuilder 😂
I think you did an amazing job presenting your clamp ideas. Some were BRILLIANT. The one comment that said watching your videos was a waist of time among other things. That type of comments are uncalled for and demonstrates his level of thinking and how myopic his views truly are. I enjoyed your ideas and most of all your personality. Great ideas with a fantastic presentation. I subscribed to your channel. I let guys like you do the thinking and the planning for me. Good Job and very well done! Some people….. they are just simply better than than many of us. LIVE BIG & SPEND IT ALL. TS, PORTLAND
Thanks very much! Portland is my hometown! (The one in Maine 😁)
Great solutions - I already have pipe clamps so using them with struts will work perfect and better than the wooden cauls that I use. I loved that stratocaster scene - got a good laugh out of it!
The long album-cut version is in the first video 😁
great minds think alike. i came up with my own version of these after nearly choking to death on how much the rockler clamps cost a few years ago. I fabricated something very similar to the mechanism in the rocker clamps. That was a lot of work. I really like some of your ideas much better. 1-it’s quicker to modify a clamp, 2-Harbor Freight has cheap yet good clamps. I’m going to use your ideas when I need additional clamps.
Yeah, used a lot of Harbor Freight clamps for the prototypes!
There's always the joy of using the tools that you made on projects. It's a priceless feeling.
@@anthonyseiver7000 yeah, there’s a lot of satisfaction in it. Plus, more $$$ for wood!
Nicely done. Lots of variations to the original design here. Thanks for the recommendation.
Thanks to my viewers, they had lots of great ideas!
Did this same thing with some "unistrut" I got for free and needed some panel clamps before watching this. I also use wood shims to hold the wood tight together and 1x blocks to keep the "unistrut" off of the panels I and gluing.
It really does work great!!
You had some great ideas to improve it and I will definitely add some.
Cool!
He went “whaaaa whaaa” on the super strut 😂😂🤣
Fantastic! Now I just need to remember to buy and construct these calls before my next big glue up.
Definitely 👍
2:52 *note to self * if ordering spring nuts, get telescopic magnet as well
Or a younger back!
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks I Wish!!! 3 back surgeries and enough titanium for a few drill sets.. I’d settle for a good repair honestly
I've been using this method too. I'm a retired plumber and had some laying around, so I gave it a try. I've never seen those square washers for strut before, so thanks for showing those. They'll be perfect. Subscribed.
@@Gazman299 I use the no-spin saddle washers quite a bit actually.
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks It was a good video. Thanks again.
I made these clamping cauls and LOVE them ! Now time to upgrade with some clamps I was wondering what I was going to use for! LOVE your ideas!! Now for a cheap easy drum sander.....lol
Hmm 🤔 I bet I could invent a drum sander lol
This was excellent. I love watching your videos progress in quality. The original idea was great but all your improvements brings it up to just genius. I will add to my list of things to make. Thanks for your work on this video.
Thanks very much. This video was cursed from beginning to end from a quality standpoint. Original audio wasn’t in sync, all the b roll was the wrong frame rate, you name it, everything went wrong. I am happy I could even finish it 😂
This is awesome and who doesn’t look for a project to do?! The manufacturing of this alone is appealing!
Making your own stuff is half the fun! 😁
I think you can do a simpler solution than how you modified a G-clamp. Cut the head off an F-clamp and drill a hole big enough for the bolt to go through in the middle of the head, and put the bolt through. Tightening the F-clamp would provide pressure on both sides of the bolt due to the pivot point. I'd probably add a wooden braces to the screw piece (as you did on the G clamp) and also on the other end (where you cut).
Fantastic research. Your last video had stuck in my head and I'd wanted to design custom end pieces, but you've shown that all you need is bolts, nut handles and F clamps.
But you need to drill two holes anyway, otherwise won’t it just turn when you tighten it?
this would be so much easier with a picture :). Ok, so you remove the head of an F clamp from the bar. Then you drill a hole in the middle of the f clamp head, between where the bar used to be and the turny handle thingumy is, thread the bolt through the hole. When you turn the handle it will push away from the boards as you tighten it, but that will cause the bar-end to pivot towards the boards, when it makes contact it will start applying even pressure at both ends. Probably worth padding out the "bar end" so that the head ends up approximately square when tightened.
@@SimonStevensakaSnetty interesting idea. Do you know of any drill bits that can penetrate that hardened steel? I probably snapped 20 bits making this video already 😂
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks maybe my F clamps are cheap, but I'd be surprised if the steel was hardened. I shall have to test.
Fantastic logic, and I love all the solutions you came up with. Not sure if it has been mentioned in the comments yet, but with the wedges you could use another clamp across to pull them together offering a more even pressure and much less likely to pop out...
That has been mentioned, it’s a valid point.
Love the upgrades! Super creative ideas and that hulk reference....very nice 🤣
@@fiveduckstudio I knew you’d like that one 😁
This is a great set of ideas. I never knew there was hardware available for these things and I appreciate the cost consciousness. I'll definitely keep it in mind should I find myself in the need. Thanks a bunch for sharing.
@@jazbuilding you’re very welcome. Thanks for watching!
Perfect I’ve been considering making these but in my mind thought something is missing, now I know what. For thin panels .25 thick this is a perfect solution, and the wedges will work. For thicker panels the clamps will suffice, point being glue it up move it out of the way, get more done!
As I pointed out, can’t do thin panels with those fancy store bought contraptions
What a coincidence, I made my superstrut cauls based on your other video just yesterday! Took me forever to find the video again, since I couldn't remember they were called cauls 😂
No way! That’s awesome 👏
Try using quick clamps in the “spreader” mode so you don’t have to modify any clamps!
You would need to place the bolts way too far away from the panel. I tried it.
I was quite happy to see this video has i have 4 x 30" lengths of the shallow uni strut, left from a project that i've been wanting to do something with. Out of interest in the UK we call the spring nuts 'Zebs', after a childrens tv character called Zeberdee, who was on a show called the magic roundabout.
Weird. Did Zeb have a spring in his butt too? 😂
Very good 2nd video. I've been using spur shelving rods as a kinda substitute for the parts you use. Works OK
@@clemmcguinness1087 interesting idea 💡
Very good content, entertaining and informative. Really good ideas presented repurposing those clamps to work with the struts. Very nice, sir. subscribed!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for your inventive, humorous and economical solution to wide glue-ups. I definitely will be making some of these. Keep up the good work!
Go for it, have fun!
There is nothing I can add 🤯 , but an additional comment for the algorithm. Exceptional channel… I mean above and beyond well edited and thought through videos. Very entertaining and informative. Great way to start my day and as long as I can achieve well jointed edges, I’ll know what to do from there. Thank you 🙏🏼 if I’m not subscribed, I will be now. Great sponsor choice too. 👍🏼
So nice of you to say. Made my day!
Very nice. I love the way the wood working community has such fun sense of humor. I love the cameos in your video ...I think I am going to go out and get some of this material and keep it on hand ..
Thanks 🙏 I’m glad you appreciate the humor!
Very...VERY cool! Thank you for sharing. I think I can make these with even a regular pipe clamp. Subscribed!
Thanks for the sub!
This is some of the most useful information I've seen on any woodworking channel. I'm going to build some clamping culls like these. Than you very much.
Glad it was helpful, go for it!
This is genius. Love your channel. I’m a new subscriber. These ideas are great. I plan to make some of these
@@steveferguson1232 Welcome aboard Steve! 🫡
Great refinements. I wouldn't have considered wedges for this setup, good tip!
Yeah, definitely works
Pretty cool indeed. Thanks again.
Excellent video. I've been experimenting with these struts and have used some to make an elevator in my (very small) shop. I love your ideas and hope you don't mind if I copy some.
Of course, copy away!
Excelent video. Thank you for sharing these panel clamps. I have been on the verge of buying a couple of the Rockler sets every time I am in their store, this will save me.
Glad it was helpful!
I wanted to let you know that one of the many reasons I watch is because of your personality.
Thank you 🙏 It is certainly a personality-driven platform for sure
Mate, I love your approach and banter.
Great videos.
Much appreciated!
Lee you are the man! I dig anybody who innovates anything. Like I always told the new guys in the autobody shops I worked at when it came to tools, The bolt doesn't care or know what tool you got it out with. Keep up the good work and forget the haters. I made the ones you previously showed and they worked awesome at a fraction of the cost. You rock brother!
@@immurerecords can’t be tight if it’s a liquid, right? 😂
Really like your content and how you show your progress and refinements to the clamp design.
Thank you very much!
On your first video I thought to myself I have seen this before, as I have had those in my shop for years and don't know where I got the idea. But this video - hands down original, you knocked it out of the park.
Thanks 🙏 Gotta swing for those fences!
Great video! Hearing “give it a Smack” brings me back to my New Jersey roots, LOL.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
FYI, the channels are a little bit stiffer with the open side down than the flat side down. In other words, the centers are going to lift a little bit less with the open sides against the work.
@@owengrossman1414 yes, which is why I showed them that way in the first video, but a lot of viewers wanted me to show them the other way
Also, it seems like you could use ratchet straps to tighten the calls together if you had extra of those, and less massively over-long bolts.
Way more possible ideas than I could fit into one video! 😁
Thank you for this excellent educational video. Carry On Sir!
Thanks, will do!
use two wedges with an angle of 5 to 7 degrees on each wedge. this keeps the flats of the wedges parallel to the edge of the panel and the wedges will not work loose.
Great tip for larger glueups for sure, but on smaller work I find shallow wedges tend to run into each other.
Definitely some nice improvements on an already great idea. I know I'll be improving mine first chance I get. Thanks, Lee.
One suggestion, maybe add blue tooth to them. That way they are more high tech than the store bought.
Next video, Bluetooth, WiFi, and an OLED display!
If you double the height, it is close to 4 times as strong and not double. It is close 8 times as stiff. The stiffness is more critical than the strength for a situation like this.
Oooh that sounds like advanced math 🤕 😂
Awesome stuff Lee! I'm just going out on a limb here and say that during the Stratocaster clip a mullet wig and a overly intense screaming guitar sound would have been a good touch (and 5 hours of your life you would never get back). I'm absolutely going to do this (not the mullet and guitar thing but the other glue up thingy) when I get to my next big glue up. Thank you and be well!
The clip was from the first video. That was before I started my wig collection!
I love your ingenuity - the C clamp use is top shelf!
Glad you like it!
Glad the youtube algo brought me back to your channel so i could subscribe this time. Love the content!
Thank you for the sub!
Just here to add some positivity. You're great and thanks for the hard work!
Thank you for the positivity. Please feel free to add some to my next video too! 😇
I had to watch this on my Big Screen cuz it's such a BIG IDEA!
Haha can’t fit all this genius on a phone 😂
What a great video. All you supplied was solutions. Excellent stuff. I still use the ol tape edge wooden cauls, and all they do is bend. I’m way over due to for this upgrade haha, thanks duuuude! Love the attachment idea for any clamps too, just brilliant. 🤙
Get you some! 💪
Lessons, Tips & Techniques... it's all in here. and I have those Metals but without holes in it, .. I'll just put holes and use it in my Wall Mount Folding Table project. Thank you sir.
Awesome 👏 thanks for watching?
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks for now I keep visualizing what to do to make an angle grinder slide using tubulars pipes without using wielding machine hehehe
wedging is the easiest way to exert entirely too much force. with a machinist c clamp style you can exert a force on the order of 10x invested. but with matched low angle wedges (like 6 to 1) you can exert 12 times effort invested. and if you apply a clamp to your matched wedges you're looking at 300 to 1 force applied. wedges are crazy.
One of the fundamental machines you learn about in science class! 🤓
This is the best idea I have ever seen menards and harbor freight here I come.
Best places to get cheap clamps! 👍
Really great ideas. I was about to pick up the Fulton 4-way pressure clamps, but I think it'll be fun making yours. And if I add some plywood and a piano hinge, I might be able to make it a permanent attached to the wall solution. Hmmm.
Wish I had room for that. You might be able to do it with just hardware and rods too.
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks Thanks again for the video. Just got 3 10' struts. Going to have some fun with this one.
How much pressure are people putting on cauls? If you need that much pressure to keep the panels flat there is no chance of the glue holding up. Great video and work around. That product seems to be incredibly more expensive in Canada but I will keep looking. Great idea and video.
@@Aaron-nj4ou thanks, appreciate it. It was evident from the comments I received in the first video that people are clamping down on glueups way too hard.
That last video was brilliant…this one even more brilliant.
@@jlivewell Aww man thanks 🙏
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks Now I have to find a way to tell my wife that I NEED these. Hahaha
This is ingenious. An inexpensive clamping and caul system in one? I have been holding off on buying a lot of mid-sized and large clamps due to the cost. Something like this though, with its interchangeability of parts, is a great solution!
So many configurations you can do with these
You stood above the armchair Karens, then made a better tool. Thank you brother.
@@odbo_One “armchair Karens” 😂 too funny, imma totally stealing that
Now that is how to think outside the box. Brilliant ( I think ) innovations .
Your thinking is correct, I am brilliant 💡 😂
Great video. You knock it out of the park with these economic solutions.
@@Bark-to-Bed-Woodworking thanks man! Really appreciate you watching good sir
Brilliant ideas! Can't wait to implement them myself. Thank you!
@@JohnnyFYX My pleasure! 😇
Hey Lee!! Great job on your video! I watched your first video on this and thought it was good! Your like many who want to find something better and cheaper. Obviously everyone who had negative thoughts are so much better than anyone else. Ignore the negativity!
It looks like I might be relocating your way from SC by the first of the year. So hopefully I get to catch you at one of your meets!
Keep inspiring those who enjoy your channel. Ingenuity is the start of something that becomes a trend.
Stay safe and enjoy your journey!!
@@scottbyrd2157 Um, sorry, Texas is full. I hear Oklahoma has some room though 😆
Lee what a great video with so many great ideas on clamping calls definitely going to give them a try. Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it my man 🙏
Mr. Busted Knuckles, Let’s ve and appreciate your videos and advice… Just completed my first large cutting board glue project using the SuperStruts but I did buy the PeachTree/Fulton 4 way clamps on their scratch n dent list… Thank You
Way to go my man! 👏
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks Thank You, Sir
I don't do a lot of panel glue-ups so I'm unlikely to need these. But having said that I really enjoyed your problem solving and presentation. Two thumbs up from me. Subscribed and watching for more of your content.
And who knows. I may build them anyway. Just to have another jig/fixture to store. LOL.
@@randycosgrove3608 then you can invent a jig/fixture storage system to hold them all! Circle of life…
The biggest problem that I find is that when I’m working on a project and need to strap something down, I don’t want to go fumbling through my shop, looking for strut, carriage bolts, c clamps to sacrifice to cut and drill, etc. I want everything at my disposal in a kit since most of the time, I am moving between job sites. It would really be cool to see a follow up video on how you organize in store all of this! Also, the ADHD in my wants to know what you did with the other half of the c clamps? 😂 what can you use those for now?
Pretty easy to keep all of this (mostly) pre-assembled.
I'd agree with just keeping it all assembled, or alternately, all the galvanized or zinc coated metal parts would stick well to a cheap Harbor Freight magnetic strip.
Fantastic idea with the small clamp
Thank you! Cheers!
I really like those handle nuts. I think I'm gonna make a set with those handle nuts. Just found your channel & subbed. Thanks.
Welcome!
Another great video Lee. Where did you get the handles for the first part of the video
I just added a link in the description.
Damn this is fantastic! Definitely going to have to do this!
Which part did you like best? “All of it” is an acceptable answer 😁
Thanks for making me laugh on my lunch break Lee. I needed that. That one part that you said wasn't cool, I thought it was cool.
@@nicholasmanovich4330 aw thanks man, appreciate that
Greatly appreciate your efficient and effective ideas. Would like to ask if you hav idea to use similar approach in gluing up wood rings or stacks of segmented rings for wood turning? A device that would ensure when stacking rings they stay centered?
Thank you!
David
I’m not a wood turner, so it’s not something I’ve ever tried to figure out. What I usually do is just hang around the hardware store or hardware websites and try to invent something in my mind, then just try it. It usually takes a lot of failed tries!
You are just brilliant. Thanks for an excellent video and your hard work.
Thank you very much!
oh man, I am so gonna make some of these
I absolutely love this video, thank you so much!
You are so welcome!
Great follow-up, Lee. So thorough!
I think I addressed everything from the first video. We shall see what kind of feedback this gets…
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks Well, you know what Roseanne Roseannadanna used to say!
@@MyGrowthRings we’re both old enough to get that reference
Great ideas. Thanks for sharing!
You are so welcome!
I really enjoy your videos and find them extremely useful. I hope you enjoy making them as much as I enjoy making them. However, I didn't understand the comment about not over engineering as that is one of my greatest joys!
A little over-engineering never hurt anyone 😉
I've been using the cone-nuts wrong. I feel foolish. If I don't get anything else from this video, I have that. Many thanks!
No worries, glad to help!
Thanks for sharing this great video! It’s always nice to save money. Take care and stay healthy and safe.
Woodworking is already expensive enough
I am a career electrician . Strut was designed for electrical installations in commercial and industrial locations .
Yes, I talk about that quite a bit in my other strut video
Increadable work great ideas much satisfaction,great video thank you.👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Wow, this must have been an amazing amount of work. I love your ingenuity and presentation. You're definitely a smart and hard working RUclipsr.
Best joke of the video: ultra high molecular weight!
Best jokes not explicitly used: about 40 opportunities to add, "that's what she said."
😂 now I gotta splice in some Michael Scott cutaways
Great ideas, thanks for the enlightenment
@@nevadacool you got it my friend 🫵
You are a genius.
My grandfather was! I hear it skips a generation. Just like the hair.
Woodpeckers is so expensive because of its brand recognition. The tools are relatively inexpensive to manufacture (unless a company buys more expensive machine tools than required). More is likely spent on marketing than on manufacturing expenses.
@@gaiustacitus4242 they definitely spend a buttload on ads
The funny thing about all this is the original design is an alternative to expensive store bought clamps. Then the complaint is the cheap version doesn't have the same features. So then more money is spent to add to the design. There was a comment in there about 'no hardware', ignoring the fact that the strut is hardware and the f-clamps are hardware and the c-clamps are hardware.
in the end it's an alternative to store bought clamp designed for the same thing. After some of those clamps are modified to be panel glue up clamps they can't be reused for anything else. There is not one solution to please everyone. You either keep generic pieces and put them together for the glue ups in a haphazard fashion, or you customize your clamp specifically to panel glue ups and nothing else. Each person has to decide if it is better for them and their workflow if they want pieces that are reusable in many processes but harder to assemble for each process or if they want specific tools that are optimized for specific processes.
@@scrager4 “No hardware” to me means no buying extraneous nuts and bolts and washers and stuff. Presumably the F clamps and squeeze clamps are things you already have, and you can still use them for their intended purpose on other projects.
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks I understood it at that point, then it went down the road of modifying all those clamps specifically for cauls without other clamps and you basically made a home made version of the expensive rockler by buying and modifying clamps that can no longer be used for their original purpose.
My observation is that you can either have strut channel with some clamps that you can reuse for other things and it might be a little cumbersome to set up pipe clamps and cauls. OR you can have a customized caul+clamp that is dedicated to panel glue ups and requires you to spend more money on dedicated hardware.
BUT you can't have it both ways.
All in all, I appreciate the video. I would go the caul and separate clamps route myself. I think that the dedicated caul+clamp would be for people that make more panels than anything else or people with money and space to dedicate to specific tools.
@@scrager4 I get your point. FYI, the C-clamps were only $6 😁
One word: Excellent!👍
Many thanks!
As always, another great, practical and well thought out video.
@@vmoutsop too much thinking in this one. I need a vacation 🤯
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks Then hurry up before its too late and it gets cold up there.
Love it man - keep up the great videos!!
Thanks! Will do!
"Solutions don't have to be over-engineered !!"
As an engineer, I take offence at that !!... 😒🙄😂
I'll be strutting my stuff from now on, sir !..
From the Emerald Isle
😎👍☘️🍻
I’m an engineer too, but I’m also very lazy 😂
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworksTouchè ! 😅👍☘🍻