Best hand-screw clamps according to redditors
We found 7 Reddit comments discussing the best hand-screw clamps. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 7 Reddit comments discussing the best hand-screw clamps. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Just clamps... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pony-Tools-Jorgensen-6-Inch-Handscrews/dp/B0000224CR
Looks like you might be able to get a basin wrench in there.
https://www.amazon.com/Wolverine-PST151-Basin-Wrench/dp/B001B00LCA
Typically an old hand scew clamp would have been used to clamp to the blade. You sit the clamp on the saw table top and tighten it down on the blade. The table top then prevents the blade from spinning.
https://www.amazon.com/Tools-Record-Handscrew-Opening-226800/dp/B0001LQY6W/
You can also just make your own blade clamp by butting the saw blade against a sacrificial piece of wood with the fence on the other side (blade wood fence sandwich), then clamping the blade to them.
https://www.amazon.com/IRWIN-Tools-Double-Edge-9-5-Inch-213103/dp/B0001GLEZ8
https://www.amazon.com/Z-saw-Dozuki-Z-Saw/dp/B001DSY7G6/ref=pd_sbs_469_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B001DSY7G6&pd_rd_r=RBVEGF6TKKCZHVCH7WSH&pd_rd_w=16INj&pd_rd_wg=gFI50&psc=1&refRID=RBVEGF6TKKCZHVCH7WSH
https://www.amazon.com/Narex-Republic-Woodworking-Chisels-863010/dp/B00GPC74ZQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1499302108&sr=1-1&keywords=narex+chisels
https://www.amazon.com/Crown-135-Marking-Gauge-Beech/dp/B00EC9AOZQ/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_469_lp_t_4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=ZBYMV8TF850C6M5JDGDG
Other than clamps, glue, mortice gauge, etc, this is good enough to get you started making carcass (dovetailed) pieces of furniture, like a shoe cubby or bookshelf. (Currently making a chimney bookshelf for myself)
Thats around $200 for getting you started. Add a mortise chisel and mortise gauge and you can start mortise and tenon work. Invest in pipe clamps when you reach a glue up point.
The clamp in a vise is one of the worst experiences of my woodworking life. 2.5/10 would not recommend unless you have no other option.
But you are a woodworker. You have an option. If you have a vise, you have a bench. Drill a hole in it. Or a few holes. Drill another hole that lines up with those in your vise chop.
EDIT - I should clarify and state specifically BAR clamps. I use hand screw clamps in a vise all the time to hold things either vertical or at odd angles for shaping/rasping/spoke shave/sanding work. That works quite well