Wood Clamps
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 HEAVY DUTY 6 NEW 3 4 GLUING PIPE CLAMPS wood bar Glue  US $28.99
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 6 New F Bar Clamps 36 Woodworking Wood Cabinet Tools US $24.99
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 42 Bar Clamps 6 NEW HUGE Woodworking F Wood Wholesale US $42.88
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Quick-Grip 546 Mini Bar Clamp List Price: $20.06 Sale Price: $10.00  |
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These Quick-Grip® Mini Bar Clamps are the best woodworking accessories to hit the market since sandpaper! They are designed to clamp with one hand, so you can hold your work in the other. Use these Mini Bar Clamps once - and you'll never want to use C-clamps again... |
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Bessey BPC-34 3/4-Inch H Style Pipe Clamp List Price: $13.39 Sale Price: $13.39 |
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The "H" shaped foot assembly stabilizes the clamp in two dimensions giving dual-axis stability to the work piece and industry leading clearance from the work surface. |
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IRWIN SET150 6-Piece Clamp Set List Price: $88.42 Sale Price: $51.50 |
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This Irwin SET150 6-piece clamp set is a great value. Included in this set are 2 12-inch Quick Change Quick-Grips which can be used as a regular bar clamp and can convert into a spreader as well. You also get 2 6-inch mini bar clamps which are great for your smaller clamping needs... |
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Wolfcraft 3415405 Right Angle Clamp List Price: $22.99 Sale Price: $16.99 |
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The Wolfcraft Right Angle Clamp is a durable aluminum tool that is very effective for making cabinets or box-frames, and functions as a third hand for the every handyman. It's useful function of an assembly aid helps in the alignment and clamping of parts for nailing, welding, and screwing... |
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Bessey LHS-10 10-Inch Wood Handscrew Clamp List Price: $28.23 Sale Price: $27.99 |
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An old-world traditional design used by wood wrights & shipbuilders that still proves to be a popular tool among cabinetmakers today. The traditionally designed hard maple jaws feature modern steel hardware... |
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Bessey VAS23 Vario Angle Strap Clamp List Price: $51.42 Sale Price: $29.61 |
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Irregular shapes, unusual objects, picture frames or circular work are no match for this innovative new Bessey clamp. With a 23 long x 1" wide, high tensile strength polyester "no stretch" strap that winds up for safe and easy management, and four unique "vario-angles" that exert continuous pressure on the joints, this is more than just a strap clamp... |
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Jorgensen 50 Pony 3/4-Inch Pipe Clamp Fixture List Price: $19.76 Sale Price: $11.48 |
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The best ideas are often the simplest, which explains why Jorgenson is well known among woodworkers as the maker of some of the best clamps available, and their 3/4-inch steel bar clamp is no exception... |
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Irwin Industrial Tools 536QCN Next Generation 36-Inch Clamp and Spreader List Price: $39.99 Sale Price: $27.87 |
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Quick change spring loaded screw. Heat treated black oxide carbon steel I beam bar. Removable resin pads. Patented locking swivel jaw conforms to uneven work surfaces. Quick release trigger provides 1 handed use... |
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Wolfcraft 3681404 One-Hand Ratcheting Band Clamp List Price: $35.99 Sale Price: $26.29 |
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The Wolfcraft Ratcheting Band Clamp is the ideal clamping aid for gluing picture frames, furniture, shelves and other workpieces. Featuring self-adjusting corners to hold various angles, and a true one-hand ratcheting, this tool makes clamping fast and easy... |
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Jorgensen Size 0 4-1/2-Inch Handscrews Wood Clamp List Price: $25.73 Sale Price: $14.96 |
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Adjustable Clamp #0 Handscrew Clamps The Adjustable Clamp Company was incorporated in 1903, by Adele V Holman, to manufacture genuine Jorgensen Handscrews. Today 5 generations later great-great-grandson Douglas Holman is President of the company... |
wood sculpture question?
where do i start.. what tools do i get? is there a wood sculpture 'bible'?
do i need clamps to Hold Down the wood.
i want to start off small but is it easier to go big so room for error and all that..
thanks in advance...
If you have had no previous experience in carving anything, I would suggest that maybe you try your hand at carving plaster of paris. Get a paper milk carton to use as a form to pour yourself a block.Tearing away the paper once the plaster sets.. Plaster is quite inexpensive. and can be purchased in a variety of amounts. It differs from wood in that wood has a grain to contend with,but my suggestion is meant to get you some quick experience in subtractive sculpture before tackling wood. Plaster can be carved with an inexpensive preferably locking blade Pocket Knife. Even when dull and the plaster will definitely make it dull but still usable for plaster.. Tools for carving wood can range from a whittling knife for small things, dremels for small work pnuematic for larger, files, rasps, riffles, to Wood Carving hand chisels, hand saws, electric chainsaws, Sand Paper emery paper, paper finger nail boards or whatever implement that one might find useful. For instance people would burn out logs to start the carving of dug-out canoes before using an adzes or adzes like tool to finish. Clamps can be used when needed, wooden braces to fit the need of the moment can be built from scrap lumber..To get involved with larger work an investment will have to be made in tools.There are sites that sell them
Here is a link to a site, although it isn't what I would chose to carve it will give you more information than I can here. He suggest basswood which is a very good wood to carve. Different woods will have different characteristic,good and bad for carving. Learn which is which.
http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/cabin/2094/webdoc5.html
And there are many more sites.
I would also suggest looking at the work of other carvers to see what can be done. The carving that I have done and have a preference in doing is in a more abstracted style after having learned to carve realistically using plaster.blocks. I found the work of the British sculptor Henry Moore.to be inspiring. Some of his work being large wooden pieces all of his work being based upon his same sense of form. Be careful ,work safely,but know that you will get cut.it comes with the territory. Be careful token and carving and don't get carried away. Good luck and most of all enjoy yourself. Artwork is work, but should be an enjoyable work.
