How To make a Hand Screw Clamp

Making a set of Wooden Hand Screw clamps. These are DIY clamps that most anyone can make in a couple hour with basic tools. Today we are showing all hand tool woodworking using a hand plane and hand saw to make a set of homemade clamps. Just like the Woodwright shop we are all hand tools and traditional methods.
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[@user-io9ln1or7c]

Thank you vey y much Sir.🎉

[@TheDistur]

Live edge tools now? That's fancy. lol. Good job!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

LOL I know right!

[@JohnMadeit]

ive just watched both videos (talking and non talking) back to back. i prefer the talking version. 👍

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

thanks John. I do too!

[@censusgary]

I do, too. I want the explanations.

[@Hengry-hn7rb]

That was a nice decision to leave the bark on the clamp. And that Disston saw looks like the cheeper creeper monster would love to have.

[@samson58]

Just finished two. And two smaller ones coming. Thank you.

[@zidnyknight3611]

Thanks

[@yastar]

Would love to see the wood screw jig making video.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

SOme day I will get to it!

[@devonmarshall2330]

dunno if you guys gives a damn but if you're bored like me during the covid times you can stream all of the new movies and series on Instaflixxer. Have been watching with my gf these days :)

[@abrahamrodrigo2078]

@Devon Marshall definitely, I have been watching on Instaflixxer for since december myself =)

[@pedro.federici]

Just good (again), James.

[@karolskakes388]

Hooray for the live edge!!! Nothing wrong with thinking outside the box. Great video.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

In this case I think I'm thinking outside the bark.

[@athmostafa2462]

Mr James , you are a man know how to play with wood , love your work . 👍

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

thanks man!

[@reskridge]

I really like the live edge clamp!

[@FredMcIntyre]

Awesome work James! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

thanks man!

[@rodpotts2666]

Always love your show.

[@imover9999]

Absolutely beautiful! It's crazy how such a thing as a simple clamp can be so pretty, but you managed to do just that. The chamfers, the finish. Great job.

[@johnkelley9877]

Beautiful looking wooden clamps. Thanks for sharing this.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

thanks John!

[@shenlun]

i love live edge, more live edge project please

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Nice. Thanks.

[@makenchips]

Like the wooden clamps have to make a pair. Suggestion on the internal tap you should cover the metal handles with a larger dowel to save your hands! Good channel fun to watch! 👍

[@clysack07]

The Live edge is awesome.

[@jimmcnett]

Those look really nice. I think the live edge one is very unique.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Thanks!

[@markharris5771]

I won’t physically be capable of doing the all wood version unfortunately, but I have a threaded M16 rod (about 5/8" off top of my head). So I might try make my own with that. I’m presuming this is a "hard wood only" project, or at least that makes sense to me. I really like the live edge, it looks really good. Thank you so much for this video, we were discussing on your last week's video how expensive these can be in the U.K. I’m running out of superlatives for this channel and all the help you give us newbies. Everyone sings Paul Sellars and Rob Cosman's praises, and they are fantastic channels and Rob does answer questions. So I’m not pulling those channels down in any way. But no one helps the newbies and gives us projects to move forward more than yourself and Rex Krueger. You have helped me more than anyone, I can’t get to night-classes due to my health, and at 59 it’s a bit difficult to get a father figure mentor. I’ve fitted a metal woodwork quick release vice as my face vice and a Veritas face vice with tulipwood as my end vice this week. When I finished them all square, solid and oiled I knew I had to thank you mostly and Rex. Without you answering my questions I would never have been able to do it. Unfortunately I also learned I'm a long way short of fit enough to to make a full wooden workbench, so my cheap eBay bench with the extra layers of plywood, shelves etc will have to do. I’ve got it functional and solid with some weight now though so all is good. Thank you James, I really do appreciate you and your channel, I think only another disabled woodworker would really understand my gratitude.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

sounds like a fun project. thanks Mark!

[@QlueDuPlessis]

I still want a screwbox. An acme thread one if possible. I bought a Stanley hand-brace for ZAR100 yesterday. (£5.37 according to Google) My other two hand-braces are somewhat dysfunctional, so this was a very welcome find.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

one of these days i will make one!

[@reforzar]

Live clamps! Fancy!

[@eds.farm_life8772]

Just looks absolutely amazing. What length dowel would you use?

[@drawlele]

Again I'm sorry about the metal pins, totally forgot about them or I really would have sent some epoxy for the handles. Never been the first comment before. Thank you so much.

[@JackFright]

Thanks, James. Got some firewood today and on my way home realized that the maple would be great for this. I assume I just split it down with a froe and then flatten? It was nice to see you using Cherry for this since that’s what the other firewood is.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Correct. You can just split it down with a hatchet or a fro get it close to the shape and then smooth it out with a plane.

[@danastaph7708]

I have a set that my dad made. They are laminated pecan and walnut, so no need to cut the mortise. First clamps I grab.

[@phildodd9942]

Hey this is a really good talk-through of how to construct them ! You seem to find oil therapeutic ! The clamps certainly look beautiful with that finish on them, and hopefully will last a lifetime. It certainly helps to follow what you're doing by already having some, or at least going to a retro store and looking at some. Presumably these clamps could be tailor-made if there is a repetitive job coming up to use them on ? In my late father's collection of tools, he had some that must date back to the 1930s, that have a dark-carbon-like finish on the screw threads. Presumably to make the screws turn without binding ? Anyway, this is another great video, and you've shown us just how easy it could be to make some. Dad jokes of photography ? My selfies just don't do me justice - they look just like me ! Thanks !

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Thanks Again Phil!

[@luccarron]

I've just made my first wooden one. It works pretty well. Thanks for all your explanations 😊

[@iannesbitt2986]

Thanks for showing this project. These clamps aren't too common here in England, so making them is the best option for me.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Right on. Have fun!

[@censusgary]

Look around for old ones. They seem to have been more popular in past generations than now. But it’s cheaper to make your own.

[@andrewbrimmer1797]

James just fyi these tap and die are out of stock and the site said they don't know if they will get anymore but highland woodworking carries some

[@nathann.7]

Thanks!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

my pleasure!

[@rjtumble]

Very nice project and thanks to your nut cracker video (I made several of those for Christmas presents last year) I have the tap and die set so this is doable. Maybe with a little extra mahogany I have.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Nice presents!

[@johnnyalarcon5072]

Buen trabajo..y muy bonito..like

[@warrenmunn3224]

I'm no loose Canon, I use a Pentax

[@josivelamorim7743]

Boa tarde. Não adianta passar cera... e não afiar devidamente a lâmina! Muito bom, o trabalho final.👍

[@rjamsbury1]

Watching the close up of the freshly sharpened bit slicing through the hardwood makes me realise just how much my bits need sharpening! Lovely outcome as ever - thanks for sharing. Btw I have a couple of wooden threaded clamps I picked up second hand. I've been holding off oiling or lubricating the threads because I'm scared of gumming them up, and making them hard to turn. Is that fear unfounded?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

A good sharp pit is an amazing thing. I just used a bit a pace wax on mine. No fear of gumming them up if it builds up too much they clean themselves off when they run through the hole.

[@LegoMan-cz4mn]

I'm going to Baptist in arnhem in the netherlands. The only woodworkers tool store to my knowladge in the netherlands and I think I might just pick one of these up. They have a lot of specialist tools (I think even the die a and tap, not sure) And which one did you enjoy making more, the wooden or metal screw clamp? Thanks!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

I personally liked the wooden more but the metal one was easier! where is that store. I will add it to the map!

[@LegoMan-cz4mn]

I thought you only did antique stores? But I already told you where it is, arhnem in the netherlands. Here is the website: www.baptist.nl/m/houtbewerkers?gclid=CjwKCAjw44jrBRAHEiwAZ9igKLjhU752yLkT0zhI_rLf-4aA6GHPYF1FzMTX15fuRZMjxTI_LOwt1hoCHhgQAvD_BwE

[@perezhernandez1061]

Great video! Ever since I've known about these they have intrigued me!! They seem very versatile. How do you determine max width of the mouth opening when making the screw? It would be nice to know when I get to making one. Anyway thank you for sharing your knowledge us!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Thanks. Usually I make the mouth about more then the distance from the tip to the first screw.

[@hassanal-mosawi6049]

well done

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

thanks!

[@wesleymorris9990]

Is the wedding ring a guide for boring straight?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Yes. It lets you know the bit Is level.

[@jwydubak9673]

Boring in the end grain (5:01) is definitely more difficult. It requires one to apply much more force to push the bit. I didn't and I broke the tip of a lead screw of my auger bit.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Right on. It takes a lot more to do end grain.

[@canaldoportugues10]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯👌👍🤝

[@vincethomrm]

Surprised the metal version came with pre-made handles 🤔. And hey, speaking of braces, were you able to see the pics I sent of my chuck with the jaws stuck in it? I sent a link in one of your old brace videos but... ...I guess I don't know any other way to do it...?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

if you send a link in a comment Google auto flags it and usually none ever sees the comment.

[@vincethomrm]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo hmm, well, maybe I'll figure out a way another time. I'd like to show you the start of my tool wall also. I've scored a lot of good stuff considering I'm in Hawaii. Record, Sargent, Miller's Falls. I got a Stanley 45 & 55. Maybe I'll make my own YT video and I'll direct you. Thanks for trying. Aloha for now. 🤙

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

you can send me an email. you can find the email in the about tab on the KZbin channel page or the contact me form on my website.

[@woodworkerroyer8497]

How has the live edge clamp held up? It looks like the bark would just fall off after a while. If I found a way to keep that from happening, I'd make a bunch of those! It looks great!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

No problem so far. I love using it wen ever posible the bark staying on has a lot to do with when the tree was cut. if it was taken in the spring there is almost nothing you can do to keep it on. if it is taken in the deep of winter it iwll usually stay.

[@julianezequiel9371]

it’s possible to make one with regular screws? got a bunch of screw rods of 12mm i’m tired of F clamps botching everything that i use them on guess that i could use a bit and washer on the free ends to ensure some more parallel clamping because the one way thread on the rod

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Sure. you can make them in the same design as the wooden screws.

[@julianezequiel9371]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo great will get some hard wood and make one or two thanks

[@julianezequiel9371]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo what ive understand is that the back screw pivots on one point and the other grabs the threads in both?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Both screws are threaded into the same jaw. The one farthest away from the tip doesn't go through the second jaw. It just pushes into it. The screw in the middle slides through the second jaw and the handle pushes against the second jaw.

[@julianezequiel9371]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo thanks a lot usually i can follow you but this one was more difficult because english isn’t mother language

[@DavidSchindel]

There are lots of videos about building storage systems for metal clamps, but I can't find one for storing lots of wooden clamps. How do you store your collection?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

I clamp mine on to the joist over my head. that is how I see most of them stored. someone just hangs a 2X4 some ware or mounts it onto a wall then the clamps just grip it and hang there.

[@JackFright]

Another question on this, James. What diameter dowels for 1/2" screw, 3/4" screw, and 1" screw? I assume that the 1"? Are they the same diameter as the screw diameter or larger?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

usually the bolt threads are the measurement as the starting dowel.

[@intjonmiller]

Did you ever do a video of making a screw box?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

I have not done that one. It's been on my list for years. Maybe one of these days.

[@zhookeeper]

Two comments.. first, had not seen the ring on the hand drill/auger... Assume to keep level? Genius. And second, I struggle to understand why the wooden screw clamp had two threads the same, but the steel threaded one has one screw threaded in opposite direction... I'm sure it works... I just can't get my head around it!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

the steel one pushes both jaws apart form the center. the wooden one pushes them apart from eather side. hope that helps!

[@walterrider9600]

thank you James . questions please will metal taps and dies work on the wood ? i ask because i have some just never tried it

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

The taps will work great. However most dyes do not hold the threads very well and they tend to shred the wood. But putting metal fasteners into wood actually works surprisingly well.

[@walterrider9600]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo than k you

[@andrevdm6406]

nice & beautiful work.... something boggles me a bit - I tried paying close attention to your process, on the small metal screw clamp it seems like the screw closest to the camera is turning anticlockwise to advance which means the 2 screws/inserts aren't identical, yet for the wood thread you've created a long thread and used the same thread direction - am I missing something?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

correct the metal ones have switching threads. so one end of the bolt is left hand and the other is right hand. On the wooden ones it is the same thread all the way through as there is only a nut on one end of each where as on the metal ones there is a nut on both ends.

[@knutzzl]

Hard to tell when you drill into the second half? Put a scrap of colored paper in-between

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

that is a great idea!

[@daviddorothy4969]

By the way, the holes in the bark are probably from woodpeckers. That is actually why I ended up taking the tree down.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Ya. They always make a fun pattern. Thanks again man been getting a lot of use from those slabs!

[@CMP-tr2ws]

I've noticed your ring on the bit in several videos while you're drilling. Is there a reason why you do this?

[@grimsoul0]

It's a way of knowing if the bit is level while drilling. If the ring doesn't move it's level. If it starts moving towards you then the bit is tilted down and you need to raise the back end. If it moves away from you the bit is tilted up so you need to lower the back end. Simple but effective.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

What he said. I have a couple videos on how to drill a square hole if you want to see more detail on it. But it's a pretty simple technique that works really well.

[@andrevanopstal2143]

Small problem for me, I can no longer get my wedding ring off my finger. I have to either cut my ring or cut off my finger. What can I do best ... :-) Great video!

[@grimsoul0]

@@andrevanopstal2143 If you want the ring off you could try this instead of cutting it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXurhnStet1kmLs Then you can have the ring resized so it fits again. But in place of a ring on the bit you could use something like a washer instead.

[@censusgary]

@3:03, why is there a metal ring on your auger bit?

[@grimsoul0]

It's a way of knowing if the bit is level while drilling. If the ring doesn't move it's level. If it starts moving towards you then the bit is tilted down and you need to raise the back end. If it moves away from you the bit is tilted up so you need to lower the back end. Simple but effective.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

What he said. If you want to see more information I have several videos on how to drill a square hole. It's a fun technique that works really well.