Hey Zazzy, on clamps, wooden double screw clamps are handy, pipe clamps too. You are correct in saying the best clamps are those most suitable for the type work you're doing. Even inexpensive plastic squeeze clamps that work by tension.
In a perfect world, glueing & clamping, or joining by pegs or dowels is my personal preference - no nai…
Hey Zazzy, on clamps, wooden double screw clamps are handy, pipe clamps too. You are correct in saying the best clamps are those most suitable for the type work you're doing. Even inexpensive plastic squeeze clamps that work by tension.
In a perfect world, glueing & clamping, or joining by pegs or dowels is my personal preference - no nails. This relates to furniture.
On timberframe, you can use a long loop of rope and twist and twist and twist with a piece of 2x4 lumber, to draw the pieces together to join them. One person can do it. It's simple engineering, but you have to be creative. You have plenty of both - problem-solving intellect and creativity. Make it fun.
Thanks for the tips/tricks. I like the rope twist-- 'heritage no-nonsense'.
Speaking of which, in my research, WRT timbeframe, I was reminded that the posts' peg-holes are deliberately drilled a little bit further in from the tenons' to draw them further in as the pegs are hammered in.
My general aesthetic, or whatever you call that, also includes trying to avoid nails where at all possible, even glue.
Anyway, while it's still a bit bewildering, I'm slowly wrapping my head around it. I might be about to buy a Japanese saw tomorrow if I can get out of bed early enough... Oh wait, it's today already. Never mind.
Incidentally, if you ever wanted to post pics of your work or tools or whatever comes to mind, feel free to let me know.
Hey Zazzy, on clamps, wooden double screw clamps are handy, pipe clamps too. You are correct in saying the best clamps are those most suitable for the type work you're doing. Even inexpensive plastic squeeze clamps that work by tension.
In a perfect world, glueing & clamping, or joining by pegs or dowels is my personal preference - no nails. This relates to furniture.
On timberframe, you can use a long loop of rope and twist and twist and twist with a piece of 2x4 lumber, to draw the pieces together to join them. One person can do it. It's simple engineering, but you have to be creative. You have plenty of both - problem-solving intellect and creativity. Make it fun.
How's your Funktional Furniture going BTW?
Thanks for the tips/tricks. I like the rope twist-- 'heritage no-nonsense'.
Speaking of which, in my research, WRT timbeframe, I was reminded that the posts' peg-holes are deliberately drilled a little bit further in from the tenons' to draw them further in as the pegs are hammered in.
My general aesthetic, or whatever you call that, also includes trying to avoid nails where at all possible, even glue.
Anyway, while it's still a bit bewildering, I'm slowly wrapping my head around it. I might be about to buy a Japanese saw tomorrow if I can get out of bed early enough... Oh wait, it's today already. Never mind.
Incidentally, if you ever wanted to post pics of your work or tools or whatever comes to mind, feel free to let me know.