My wife seems to think I have lost my mind over buying clamps of different sizes and types. Any time I am anywhere that has clamps to sell. You will find me looking them over hoping to find that one clamp that I could have used om my last project. It's not like I have a lot of clamps to begin with. Most of the stuff I had was lost a few years ago when my shop I had at the time was broken into.

I was lucky they left a few old hand tools and my old craftsman band saw. I never really tried to replace things. I had moved and had lost the old shed that was my shop. But time has passed and I have moved on with life, I found my self always coming back to wanting to make things from wood. Then my grandson some how got me to build him a cookie tin banjo. From that point on I started my road back to wood working. Being disabled I don't have the money I did when I was working. also no longer have that discount I had for working for Sears, so slowly I have been adding tools when I can and finding ways round things when I don't have the right tools at the time.

I can't say my wife has ever said no, unless the check book was low on me buying a new tool ever so often. It's just that she does not and for some reason can't understand my need for clamps. or my need for a drill press. I just chuckle to myself as I load a few new clamps into the cart knowing it going to be a never ending battle, and hope she does not see the small set of brad-point bits hiding in there until it's to late.

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http://www.prchestnut.webs.com/

Never can you have too many.

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Ron Dudelston
Site Administrator

Above and Beyond WoodWorks

nope, it's like eating peanuts you can't just have one

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http://www.prchestnut.webs.com/

Nope - end of comment  

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Fred
aka Pop's Shop
www.pops-shop.com
EX-21 (Presently on the floor. Using my 6-year old 788 ! ! ! ! !
'Soooooo many patterns - sooooo little time'

Nope you can't have too many clamps.

Since the picture was taken, I have put a clamp rack under that table and all of the pipe clamps are now stored there. I have also added about 10 more of them and probably that many more of the quick grip clamps.

You just have to keep adding to them.

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John Moody
Site Administrator


John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com

dang I would love to have a few pipe clamps.

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http://www.prchestnut.webs.com/

If you find that the number of clamps you have prevents bringing in another tool or project then you need a larger shop, but no you cant have too many clamps!

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WOW - sounds like we ALL agree on this subject

Mike - bigger shop might just be the idea  

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Fred
aka Pop's Shop
www.pops-shop.com
EX-21 (Presently on the floor. Using my 6-year old 788 ! ! ! ! !
'Soooooo many patterns - sooooo little time'