{"id":2594,"date":"2013-01-15T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:52:19","slug":"saw-clamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/saw-clamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Saw Clamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/saw-vise-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2596\" alt=\"photo of saw clamp in use\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/saw-vise-1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Until now, my infrequent saw filing has been assisted by holding the blade between a pair of 1x2s placed carefully in my bench&#8217;s leg clamp. It had two problems. One, it took two men, a little boy, and a monkey to hold all the parts &#8220;just so&#8221; and get it clamped. Two, oh my aching back bending over it.<\/p>\n<p>The activity is not frequent enough to warrant buying a fine metal clamp, but does warrant a bit of DIY time and about $6 worth of oak. I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/saw-vise-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2595\" alt=\"side view of saw clamp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/saw-vise-2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>found drawings on a <a href=\"http:\/\/paulsellers.com\/2012\/06\/solid-saw-chocks-simply-made\/\">blog post by Paul Sellers<\/a> and got to work. Straightforward &#8230; until I noticed the rounded hinge. Hey, a simpler square edge hinge, not housed, would work just as well.\u00a0 No, that&#8217;s the wimpy way out. Carve that hinge, and if it really fails, square off the mess into the simpler version. It worked.<\/p>\n<p>The hinge pin is a piece of brass tubing that I had on hand. That&#8217;s a carriage bolt and wing nut that tighten the jaw.<\/p>\n<p>The clamp works beyond expectations, perfectly well for as often as I need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, my infrequent saw filing has been assisted by holding the blade between a pair of 1x2s placed carefully in my bench&#8217;s leg clamp. It had two problems. One, it took two men, a little boy, and a monkey to hold all the parts &#8220;just so&#8221; and get it clamped. Two, oh my aching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hand-tools","7":"category-shopmade","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8109,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/8109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}