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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: sleek on March 29, 2013, 05:19:30 pm

Title: An improvised bow clamp
Post by: sleek on March 29, 2013, 05:19:30 pm

So, while laminating up a bow tip, I didnt have enough clamps, so I did what any bowyer would have done.... Improvised! I am sure I am not the first to think of this, but here it is, and I think the pic is self explanatory. But, just in case... Get two blocks of wood, space them out just shy of how thick the clamping surface is thick. Wrap a cordage around the one end, slide the cordage wrapped blocks over the surface to be clamped, then squeeze the opposite ends togeather and hold them with a pair of vice grips, or just tie more cordage around. They act like a nutcracker, only instead, your clamping wood.

(http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i411/rocketernally/2013-03-29120149_zpsee109c1a.jpg)

Title: Re: An improvised bow clamp
Post by: Del the cat on March 29, 2013, 06:11:43 pm

That's what we like... thinking outside the tool box ;D
Del