2/26/2024 0 Comments Clamping for stiles and rails![]() I don't really know because I haven't used them. I have seen the clamps you are talking about but I never thought they would be as good for squaring a door as clamping the door into a fixed 90 degree corner. However, it would take a lot of doors for that amount of effort to pay off. At the end of the day if your panels are square, the door should be square unless you rack it. The Bessey kit is (2) 24" and (2) 40" with (4) grooved blocks. Jorgenson calls them Cabinet Master clamps. They have been selling them for 6 years(?). It is all about how many doors you are doing.Įither I didn't describe the setup correctly or you are not aware of these clamps. For just a few doors a month, I use the jig shown above. The ideal (or Unique) solution is the picture below. You would still need something to square the doors first. You can build a clamping table that has slotted rails to hold your clamps in position (had one of these in high school shop class), making life much easier. This is the $200 answer to your question. Pipe clamps tend to roll the pattern and you can end up with cupped doors. Bessey sells a set of four "stands" that hold the four clamps perpendicular. I would probably make this a flat surface so I could use the space for other purposes as well.ĭitch your pipe clamps for four Bessey or Jorgensen cabinet clamps. My current clamp lives at about a 30º incline. My fantasy clamp would have a UHMW table surface for easier glue cleanup and there would also be air clamps that exert pressure down while exerting pressure sideways. If I had the $2500 to invest again I would probably spend a day + $1000 worth of air pistons and do something along the lines of what contributor K suggests. We press the door on this frame and then lay it onto a Blanchard ground steel table we harvested from a printing press. The way the metal frame is produced, there is nothing to assure that the right side is in plane with the left as you get wider. It clamps and squares the door just fine but does not necessarily keep the door in one flat plane over the whole length of the clamp. ![]() I think it is the same one that contributor F alludes to. Works great.Ĭlick here for higher quality, full size image Use two quick clamps to pull the joints snug, then use a block that spans both stiles and a pipe clamp to pull the door square into the jig, pin the corners, remove the door from the jig and clamp with two clamps. Screw it to a bench, glue up the door and lay it face down in the jig. The movable cylinder ones are way too slow compared to this one when changing from one door size to another.įor a few doors, this simple jig works great. I think they are around 2500 for a new one, which is not too bad. It clamps and squares the door in one second. I have the Taylor door clamp and it works great. Is there a better way, maybe some jig that can be built that will clamp the door and square it too, while not taking my wallet or my space? I don't want to give the money or the shop space for an actual door clamping system. We clamp the door together with pipe clamps and then have to check for square and shoot. We outsource our doors, but we are set up to make them for little jobs or when we order one wrong.
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