Wood clamps

[Sparkey]

If anybody is looking for clamps check our Harbor Freight. I got the 6" clamps for $2.99, the 18" for $4.99 and the 12" wooden one for $10. I thought that was a pretty good deal.

[amazingkevin]

1 hour ago, Sparkey said:

If anybody is looking for clamps check our Harbor Freight. I got the 6" clamps for $2.99, the 18" for $4.99 and the 12" wooden one for $10. I thought that was a pretty good deal.

I guess, i'm sorry i didn't take my friend up on free clamps.I didn't want to take advantage of him ,but sorry i didn't he offered.His friend died and his wife gave him everything he had free.

[jollyred]

A lot of my clamps are from HF, and they  have worked just fine for years.  

[Scrolling Steve]

I have not found the wooden screw clamps at my local HF.....I guess i need to look online, that is a good price.

[Chiloquinruss]

HF clamps is da' bestist!  Well maybe not da' bestest but they work for me!  Russ

 

[Rockytime]

I have quite a few HF tools. There is one about a mile from me.

[Jim McDonald]

I have about 20 of the little clamp on the left.  They work so much better than the "squeeze" style I was using prior.

[Sparkey]

I like the screw handle better than the squeeze type. I bought these mostly for gluing small projects together. Going to get a bandsaw soon and will be making boxes and want to laminate different woods together for Pen blanks, bowl blanks and other things.

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

The "F" clamps are handy because you can use one hand to make them work. If you do woodworking you can never have enough clamps. The wooden screw clamps have their place also. I just bought a few toggle hold down clamps from Horror Freight yesterday. For me things that do not have a motor are expendable and HF is cheap. Things that cut or have a motor I stay far away from HF. 

[ike]

Harbor freigh has good tools and bad tools I have a drill press vice i bought from Harbor freight out of a caatalog when that the only with harbor freight It has server me well.

IKE

[tgiro]

I got some HF bar clamps a few years ago. The bars bent on them as I was tightening the clamps on the piece. I gave them away and went back to Jorgensen.

The big box stores are selling a lot of Bessey clamps. I'll use them, but I've taken a few of them back for different reasons.

[Bill WIlson]

Back a few years ago, my BIL bought a bunch of HF bar clamps cheap, at a yard sale.  They were all like new.  About 3 in every 4 were useless, as the clutch would slip as soon as you tightened them to any degree.  In the end, even with throwing most of them away, he still ended up with a handful of clamps that worked OK, for not much $.  Maybe they've improved over the years.  We now have a HF in town, but I've never been tempted to try any of their clamps, because of that experience.

[Scrolling Steve]

Just ordered a couple of the wooden screw type online......I will let you know....Like others i never had any luck with their squeeze clamps.

[Bill WIlson]

Wooden hand screw clamps turn up fairly regularly at flea markets around here.  I have a dozen or so I've picked up over the years.  I try to pay no more than $5 - $7 each, depending on size & condition.