S Bolton

Now that I have an Incra jig, I wonder what clamp is best to use to hold the wood against the right angle part of the Incra.

Wooden clamps or more conventional ones?

Thanks for the input.

Steve Bolton

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S Bolton

I should add that the two I am considering are attached.

S Bolton

Finally, the photos are attached.

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challagan

I think the wooden clamp has more clamping surface which is why they recommend and use this type in the video. I have one of these and haven't used it on the incra jig yet but I plan to use either the wooden one or my Oak Park Clamps which I have glued MDF square pads to keep from marring the wood and more clamping surface.

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bobj3

Hi Steve

I like to use the hand pastic clamps , they are quick to use and they hold very well ,you don't need to clamp the heck out of it...it just needs to stay in place for about a min. or two...then they let you release them quick with one button the norm.

they maka many kinds here are just two of them.
http://www.grizzly.com/products/h6447
http://www.grizzly.com/products/g3106


Bj


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Joe Lyddon

A Wooden clamp would NOT have a tendancy to dent the wood being clamped like C & F Clamps tend to do.

S Bolton

So you think the wood clamp is better? I already have the other type.

Thanks

Steve Bolton

Joe Lyddon

Yep... if I had the wooden ones, I would use them...

If I didn't have the wooden ones, but DID have the other types, I would use the other types with wood blocks to protect anything needing protecting.

If I didn't have any of them, I'd buy some of both...

challagan

Honestly most will work. I think if I was double stocking them like you do on the Incra for some cuts I would go with the wood since I have one. But it is awful cumbersome in my opinion. Another reason why a plastic padded one would probably work fine is how the Right Angle jig is constructed. It has a tall side fence so to speak and it's easy to push the stock up to it on the side and then just make sure the stock is sitting flat on the table surface and it is set. You just have to be careful with some of these quick type clamps as they have tendency to pull the workpiece one way or another ... just make sure it is tight to the fence and to the table and it will be fine.

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JDługosz

I've not had much luck using the right-angle thingie in general. If the nylon screws are tightened just to the point where it doesn't wobble, then it jams, because the fence (even though it is machined flat) doesn't have a constant width at the place where it grabs.

I think it would be better if it just pushed against the fence like a common end-milling jig, but had some other way of countering its tendency to rotate clockwise when sliding it, that only used the known good reference surface of the fence.

The only way I've gotten anything decent is to hold the horizontal part of the thing against the fence, and not touch the right-angle part or the work coming out of it. So clamping needs to be excellent. Use a couple small bits of carpet tape, and the classic double-screw wood clamp.