Woodworking Tips: Using Cauls and Playing Cards for Even Clamp Pressure
Woodworking Tips: Using Cauls and Playing Cards for Even Clamp Pressure
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George Vondriska teaches you a neat little trick for creating tighter biscuit joints on your shelving. After inserting the biscuits into their slots and filling them with glue, he likes to put two playing cards between the case side of a shelf that will be clamped and a flat caul. This will allow the glue to dry uniformly and seamlessly across the entire edge of the shelf.
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Hmm… thanks, George. It is these little "tricks of the trade" that I find so useful – things one would never think about on their own. Keep up the good work. Particularly like your live sessions.
Nice video. This is another example of how simple, straight-edged cauls with shims can be used as a substitute for cutting cauls with a "camber" (curve). Much easier.
Plane a camber on the timber!
Why the 3 degree angle on the clamp up 🤔
While I respect your professional opinion regarding the use of a Queen and a 4, personally I find that I get more lift when I use Jacks.
I guess these are what they call cauling cards. Ba dum tish
The Robert Bridges quote is great.
George may know stuff, but he is too much of a wise-ass. Good thing he works for a magazine where he doesn’t have to deal with the general public.
Octopi don’t have any hands
Painters tape top temporarily hold the caul. plane a camber into the caul so you don’t need to mess with the cards.
The simplest tricks are the most genius! Thanks.
Mostly, I use small, outdated HPL -samples. They are strong, thin (0.9mm) and free.
Hey. Have you ever considered trying the Tarkhavo planned woodworking course (do a search on google)? Ive heard some great things about it and my neighbor up the street built some pretty cool indoor climbing things for cats with it.
Good idea. When I’m getting low on cards, I just put a king and queen under the caul. When go to remove em, find 3 cards.
I used to run a euchre tournament so I had lots of used playing cards. I use them for shims all over the shop, to use as a spacer when you want to move that fence over just a smidge, to lift a plate in a router table or a zero clearance insert in the table saw a few thou
That is nice but you could use just about anything. Â I normally fold a sheet of printer paper over quite a few times
Does it have to be a queen and a four?
You would get a much better joint if you cut a dado and glue that. And faster to