Replies

1. 
   9619 | Nov 30, 2007 10:37pm | #1

   Don,
   YOu want to clamp a board to your bench with the edge up.

   Take two bar clamps and clamp them across the entire workbench with board where you want it. I don't know if the board is longer than the bench. That would make it harder.

   Mel

   Measure your output in smiles per board foot. 

2. 
   KeithNewton | Dec 01, 2007 04:12am | #2

   I have several benches which have a vice at one end. Most have an apron set back a couple of inches from the edge, which allows clamping work down to the top flat, but in the apron, I have a number of holes along the length, which I can insert a large dowel, to support the opposite end from the clamp.

   Oh, by the way, the holes are not all in a line down the middle of the apron. Some are near the top, some in the middle, and some near the bottom of the 2x6 apron. this takes care of supporting various widths of boards, and having their top edge above the work surface as needed for planing an edge.

3. 
   Jfrostjr | Dec 01, 2007 05:05pm | #3

   i use two "hand-screw"clamps - the funny looking wooden clamps with 2 long screws with handles.

   One holds the board in the 'on-edge 'position, the other holds the first clamp to the bench.

   Frosty

   "I sometimes think we consider the good fortune of the early bird and overlook the bad fortune of the early worm." FDR - 1922

1. 
   forestgirl | Dec 01, 2007 07:15pm | #4

   Ditto to Frosty. forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 

2. 
   DonC | Dec 02, 2007 12:16am | #5

   Thanks for the advice. I have used your good suggestion in the past for individual boards. What I really need is to hold an assembled cabinet door frame edge firmly while I use a random orbital sander on the edge. This requires the edge to be only a couple inches from the clamp jaws.

    

   Edited 12/1/2007 4:18 pm ET by DonC

1. 
   jackplane | Dec 02, 2007 12:40am | #6

   slide the door with handscrews to the bench edge, and clamp it there.

   or buy a bench vise.Expert since 10 am.

2. 
   Telemike | Dec 02, 2007 07:55am | #7

   I use a side vise that is mounted flush with the edge of the bench for one end of the board. I also support the board with a board jack that rides on the side frame of the bench. If a board is long, I clamp a pipe clamp in the end vise to clamp the far end of the board. It's a great set up for planing or sanding edges. But, it's really tough to sand the edge of a board without rounding it. Edges are the province of a jointer plane like my # 6.

3. 
   KeithNewton | Dec 02, 2007 06:40pm | #8

   Don, I think you are looking for a solution to a problem that you should not have, probably due to too much pressure with the sander. I never clamp the work while sanding with a RO sander. Usually I have some sort of pad on the bench top while sanding the face and back, then simply slide the work so-that the edge overhangs the bench-top, then sand the edge while holding the work down against the top with one hand, while sanding with the other. I just can't see spending the time to clamp for this procedure. my 2¢

1. 
   DonC | Dec 02, 2007 06:57pm | #9

   I'll give that a try Keith. Seems the easy way to do it. Thanks to all for your excellent advice.

   Don