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3D Printed Bar Clamp Rack: Hang Long Clamps Flat Against the Wall

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A bright home workshop scene, matte charcoal-gray 3D printed bar clamp rack brackets on a wall holding four long bar clamps flat and parallel

Introduction Bar clamps are the worst-shaped tools in the workshop to store. Long, top-heavy, with sliding jaws that wander and handles that snag, they defeat every casual system: leaned in a corner they domino, laid across a shelf they bury everything under them, and hung from one nail they swing and slowly walk their jaws … Read more

3D Printed Band Clamp Corner Blocks: Square Frames Without Crushed Corners

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A bright home workshop scene on a light oak workbench

Introduction A band clamp is the kindest way to pull a frame together — and it still manages to bruise it. The strap rounds each corner with all its force concentrated on a few millimeters of wood. Miter tips, the sharpest and most fragile part of the whole frame, get crushed, rounded over, or pushed … Read more