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Saw a couple of work holding or clamping techniques recently that I thought were interesting. Do you do this?

Planing wedge:

Hypotenuse clamp:

(I’ve made up the names for these. What do you call them?)
 
The first one looks a bit overcomplicated to me. Bigger, thicker bits of wood can be held in the vice or just rested against a simple stop. But I used something similar when planing lots of small thin drawer supports, only about 9mm thick. It's just an offcut of plywood with a V cut. The wedge is purple, to help me not lose it.

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The second one looks a bit impractical - it needs an extra bit of wood to hold the long bits apart. I use these instead when edge gluing thin boards. They are just bits of scrap timber, a couple of stops screwed on where needed, plus a pair of folding wedges. Cost nothing, made in minutes.


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(The parcel tape is to stop any drips of glue from sticking where they are not wanted.)
 
Good points.

If you think the first one is complicated, I’ve seen a similar one with elastic bands that returns the wedge to the “open” position when finished. I’ll add a link if I find that version again.

The single version of the 2nd one is also shown in use vertically by Jim Sear in this video:

 
Andy how do you keep your v cut jig on the work top from moving, I'm sure it is looking at me but I can't figure it out.
Oh , it is against a stop, must read more carefully.
 
duke said:
Andy how do you keep your v cut jig on the work top from moving, I'm sure it is looking at me but I can't figure it out.
Oh , it is against a stop, must read more carefully.
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I normally add a holdfast in the round hole near the back as well, but didn't bother with that for the photo.
 
I use a version of the second one to glue/clamp the bookmatched halves of instrument tops and back. because they are thin and flexible, they need that caul across the top to stop bending from the pressure at the edges. I'm considering making a better version like the second one.
 
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