Clamping a Woodworking Project

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Hi, my name is Kevin and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to clamp up the glue up that we just performed. So with the biscuits in place and glued, you're going to want the clamping pressure coming on the joint, closing it up from top to bottom here. What we want to do is we want to put clamping calls and what clamping calls do is that they help distribute the pressure of the clamp and also keep the clamp from marring the actual work piece. It protects it as well as distributes pressure. You want to line this screw up coming with that pressure right in the middle there is really what you're aiming for. As you can see, we got the glue squeeze out which is letting us know that that we definitely got enough glue in there and that its coming out and that we're going to have a good, tight, solid joint there. So we've got this side done, the joints are nice and closed up. We got a little bit of squeeze out, that's good. So we'll flip it over and do the other side. All our joints look good; it looks closed up all the way along the edges there. With the case clamped up, what we want to do is we want to make sure that this box is perfectly square. And so the way that you do that is you pull a measurement from corner to corner and so you measure from the inside corner here to the inside corner here and we're measuring at twenty-five and a half. We pull that same measurement. Measuring off the same side of the tape, twenty-five and a half there and so with those two sides pulling the same measurement, we know that this box is square. If it were to be longer on one side than the other, what you would want to do is take a clamp, place it on the edges here and put a little pressure on the longer side. If it was measuring twenty-five and three-quarter and twenty-five and a half, you'd want to put an eighth of an inch of pressure on there and retake the measurement and make sure that its perfectly parallel.

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