Hand Screw Kit, Part 1 of 9 ( Introducton )

Boys and Girls, I know many woodworkers have these Hand Screw clamps in their arsenal and I also believe that many have relegated them to a corned with the spiders. After watching this video by Taylor Toolworks,    • First improvements ever to this 122 year o...   I could see benefits in resurrecting my use of these clamps, so I bought a pair of the 6", 8" and 12" clamps (10" were out of stock). They are back in stock at Taylor Toolworks, https://taytools.com/products/wooden-... They can also be purchased from Lee Valley, https://www.leevalley.com/en-gb/shop/... Note that for all you lazy buggers, they can be purchased already assembled, but without the "revolutionary" modifications that these series of videos are about. As always, my files can be downloaded from my cloud storage at, https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?co... Please note that the Sketchup model I've uploaded to the 3D Warehouse comes in two parts as the model was too big to include the kit's breakdown. The instructions that come with the kits give you non-scaled measurements. MY files include scaled measurements that can be used as a 1:1 layout template (or the templates laser cut out of 3mm MDF as I have). For those that believe that 1,000 words are better than a picture, I wrote a project article about the clamps at Craftisian, https://craftisian.com/projects/12554... with the intentions of a multi-part series of Blogs, with the anchor blog (#1) starting here, https://craftisian.com/entries/1850-i... (though the continuations are still to be posted... circa 2024-03-17).