hi welcome to the jack bench woodworkingchannel. i am charlie kocourek and today i have a very cool thing to show you. myfriend andy klein, and i think many of you know who and he is. he's the guy whoinvented designed the saw blade where he takes a piece of plywood zoom zoom hecuts/runs it across the table saw. four cuts, folds it up and he's got a box justlike that! that's the guy i'm talking
woodworking bench height, about. well andy's got another one. now thistime and he's designed invented a new kind of clamp and what it is it's aparallel clamp like a regular bessey type not necessarily brand name. but aparallel clamp that you can use as a regular parallel clamp but when you needto clamp a panel together you can flip
two of them together they interlockand then they squeeze the panel on the edges just like a regular parallel clampwould but at the same time you're doing that the squeeze down and hold the panelperfectly flat so it's got the dual purpose. the advantage to this is youonly need one clamp. instead of having to have a specialized panel clamp that youwould only use for panels now you have a parallel clamp that you can use toregular clamping tasks and then when you have the those instance when you need toput a panel together and you want to be able to press flat at the same time youcan do with the same clamp. you don't need two clamps anymore
the the other thing about this that i really like is that it's foolproof. it's dummy proof. you know with a regularparallel clamp regular clamps if you're not careful sometimes get in trouble andthis is just so dead flat easy i gotta show you so anyway what we've got ishere is here's what the clamp looks like it's it's like a regularparallel clamp except when he's done is he's put this roller in here with itsgot a gauge for figure it is and that doesn't have to be exact you saidapproximately where you want it and then the other side is just got a hook on itbut it's a little different but it's the same as a regular clamp so what you dois this is three quarter inch material
here so i got this said i said it aboutan inch. it doesn't have to be exact open it up and put it down on. oh and i want to show you, i'm sorry, real quick here these boards are fairly well but they're not perfect.look at that. that's not perfect. that one is close, really good that one's good, that one is not.this one is really pretty far off not horrible, but you know, not what you wouldideally like it to be. so if you just set it on top of the panel like this. you already have theother one on there. then they slide together like this they can interlockso that goes in you take the other one and the same thing that goes right inthere i have another second one here for the other side. i hope you cansee this and, it is hard to reach
across here but put that in there nowall i do i take this and i take me to sub little bit taking this little bitsame thing on this say so see right here as i'm taking us thatroller is coming up on their as it's doing that it's forcing that down at thesame time it's pushing in over here so i'm just giving a little snug snug ok sohow did it work out this one here that yes that is wow that's black that issuper flat put a piece of paper under here i canget a piece of paper under it but just barely the question comes up is this really anybetter than just a regular parallel
clamp well i am not from missouri but icould be because you gotta show me i don't just believe i just don't justbelieve it because someone said it i had to see for myself like i played i playedaround these things for a long time more time than i want to admit and yesthey really truly honestly do work better than just a regular peril and iwill prove that right this minute so this is the experiment that i've beenrunning on these some time now is comparing these the interlock clampswith just using a regular so what i've been doing is in a repeatable its isrepeatable have done it over and over time this will be the same i take theseand now i'm using these essentially
exactly the same as a regular parallelclamp down i take my other parallel clamp on her way here and i put inputting them on here opposing on the opposite side like this ok and so they're pressing down itssitting there and you know opposite each other and so i take the one class isnuggled up a little bit the other clan slugged add up a little bit like thisone that up and i try to be very careful to tighten them as evenly as i can notto do one more than the other little them this one little on this one littleon that one
okay now let's see how flat surfacescompared to the one that i called the antique lamp but really four-wayparallel clamp what the sign here and there is every single time i tried as iget the same result the with the just opposing clamps it's not flat it simplyis not flat it's way more than just a piece of paper in here and so theproblem that i had when i'm clamping panels together with regular clamps isthat they tend to bowl now these things will also not these bessie's theanti-clinton they press down with a tremendous amount of force so they willpull the joints together pulled pulled the faces parallel to each other theywill force them down in the polls seemed
to parallel to each other one thing iwanted to show you too how much force there really is whenyou're using these piece of mahogany that i was using it but this art showyou is clamping here like this and going and ijust want to show you how much force there really is none here it will thenit'll put a dent in this ship and he's got another video online and you shouldlook at a video to he's got a little different approach this week's differentpeople different approaches and andy has been using these little shims on thescenes i think i might my experimenting and and playing around with these i'mconvinced that these clamps or so good
he just you don't need these shims but iwanna should but what i'm trying to demonstrate here is how much coursethere is just crank these down some right that we got a lot of force goingdown on their how much bourse show you how much force oh my gosh more than ithought with a share of course you know the the force the pressure is allconcentrated right on this one little shame here i'm gonna walk around putthis in front of cameras show you see that look claim put on there and it'seven all the way across that all the way across even all the way across here soit's a home run it really is a home run so anyway what what we want to do all myinvolved what the heck am i doing here
well the reason that i'm even involvedin this is andy is obviously very talented he can be doing this all byhimself but as many of you know and he just relocated from minneapolis todenver and he hasn't completely set up shop yet he can't do anything becausehis shop isn't done he can do metalworking he's got enough of stuffset up to do is metalworking but not working so he asked me to help him andand when i did i i helped with the prototype i made the the wooden partshere and the wooden parts here and i'm helping you know with the making thisvideo on any made all metal part and what andy is hoping to do with this isthe same thing they did with that's all
plz looking for a partner to help bringthis to market and it would really be a shame if if nobody picks up on this andi don't know some manufacturers some retailer clamp manufacturers woodworkingretailer somebody pick up on this and and help to bring this to market becauseit just be a shame that if if other people don't get to use it people don't get the chance to use itbecause i think it just makes makes our lives easier we like tools and thingsand make our lives easier and and that's what these will do for you so spread theword share this video go back watch andy's video sharing his video andplease subscribe to the jack then
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