I appreciate you sharing your Bar Clamp instructions with us.... What a great way to clamp up a top or other thick items..... It's very cheap to make and easy to build..... Thank You!

Absolute Genius Sergio! This is one of the best projects I've seen and one of the next I will make. It's ideal for building panels for my beehives. Being more familiar with inches than metric, I converted your measurements. So, for anyone else that would prefer to do so: Boards 26.75" long (actually, as long as you need), ripped on the centerline to make 2 pieces 1.5" X 1.75" less your saw kerf. Holes are 3/8", first one at 1", 9 more at 2.75" ea, leaving 1" past the last hole. It "should" be better to stack two boards for drilling and then drop a 3/8-16 x 6" Carriage Bolt into the first hole drilled. I believe this will eliminate the problem of hole misalignment. After drilling, re-drill the top boards with a 13/32 bit if you have one, or just hog them out with the 3/8" bit so the bolt is loose in the hole as Sergio did. Wedges are from a 1X4 and 6" long. Finally, I'll make a couple of pieces shaped like a ladies beach hat, about 4" long and 1.5" wide, drilled in the hat "crown" for a loose fit on the end bolts and placed behind the glue-up. it will distribute the pressure and not leave screw marks on the job. I'll make these from Baltic Birch, same thickness as the job stock.

The best, and very well explained, video on shopmade bar clamps so far!

One of the smartest woodworking ideas on KZread. Cost saving, effective, and easy. Thank you. I will definitely make them!

Those wedges are a fantastic idea. Thanks for sharing the idea!

You my friend have a way of giving instructions so that I can understand what you are doing and I can copy your wonderful jigs.

Simple, cheap, and exactly what I was looking for a description of how to make. Thanks.

the best thing about this clamp is, it has 2 sides, top and bottom so you can press the board equally from all sides. I just made this one today and gonna try it out tomorow, thanks sergio ! :D tips, if you have wider board just make 3 or 4 clamps like this so you can have the max result

Thanks Sergio. Great Idea, I'll have to give these a go for some of my projects. Nice work !

Simple and cheap, very clever! Your instructions are also very practical - keep up the good work!

Once again, THANK U Sergio. U r the top!

Great Job! Thanks for sharing! I love your approach to making tools and jigs!

Thanks for refreshing old classic ;)

Simple, yet practical. Inexpensive and effective. Another great video! THANKS!

This is just the job to enable me to complete a project I'm doing. This is a great video, thanks.

Excellent ! Simple, inexpensive, and very effective! Thanks for sharing

simple clamps that do two jobs in one. good idea, well done.

Wow, these clamps are really easy to make! Great idea, thank you for sharing it!

I'm loving what you do here. I haven't watched your video all of them but I'm so glad that found your video. Keep up good work!!

Very good idea Sergio! I am making a set today with left over 2X6's - Thank you for sharing.

This is simple idea, the best kind in a shop. Thanks so much.

Thank you this is the simplest homemade bar clamps I've known! Great idea!

Thank you, easy to follow, and clever. I will definitely make my own.

These clamps are an excellent tool, thanks for showing this idea.

Thank you for your video. It is brilliant and will save me a lot of money buying clamps.

Great instructional video! I'm definitely going to make a set of clamps like these. Thank you!

thank you for this tutorial : I was about to spend a lot of money for long clamps and you offer a cheap and efficient solution... Very cool !!!

They look very useful. I'm going to make some of these next time I need to glue up a panel. Thanks for sharing!

Sergio, Thank you so much! , just what I have been looking for!

This is a great project to do at home. With this kind of clamps i can make cutting tables, chessboards, and much more gluing wood projects. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

Thank you Sergio, another outstanding solution to a common problem.

Great GREAT solution for beginners like me. So cheap and easy. thanks for sharin this idea

It takes a smart man to come up with such a great and simple idea !! Thank you !! This goes on my list of things to make !! Thank you very much !!

Excellent idea and instruction video!

Great clamps and you explained them very well!!! Thanks for sharing your idea!

Excellent, thank you!

Another great idea. Awesome job. I'm going to make these. Thankyou!

Clever ! Two thumbs up :)

Brilliant! Thank you!

Fabulous!!! Can't wait to make my own set!!!

great video, very informative without talking for an hour about every little detail. love the idea and I will have to make these myself for my shop.

This clamp are fantastic thanks.

great video...going to make these today very simple but effective thankyou for sharing

Excellent idea ! Very clever! I will definitely use this concept. Thank you

I'm glueing together a workbench table-top and didn't want to spend huge amounts of money on a couple of clamps that I'll use 2 times in my life. This is a real money saver and I'm sure this is just as good! Also it squeezes the boards on both dimensions! Very smart! Thanks :)

Nice idea Sergio. I like it

I will try these clamps, makes sense to me to do it that way - thank you !

Perfect! Bravo!

I've been looking for a cheap but effective alternative for expensive bar clamps and have seen your other videos on the subject. they have given me several ideas for my own designs. thanks for posting them.

Just a idea for you, the next time you go to make a set of these clamps. After you make the marks where you are going to drill the holes for the bolts to come through, double the boards up & secure them with either some tape or F-clamp & then drill the hole. That way you are sure to have matching bolt holes! That way you save on your drill time & effort in making them. So, basically drill both pieces at the same time. 😁 Thank you for posting the how-to make video!!

Great idea Sergio. Muchas Gracias. Really simple idea but so useful once you see it. Good on you for sharing.

Brilliant idea I love it ..... thanks Anthony

Perfect for what I'm going to do in which I was thinking of long darn clamps, thanks for the idea. :)

excellent idea and that gives me an idea for other similar clamps

That was amazing. You are a genius!

Great idea, keep them coming Sergio!

Nicely done.....I like that it keeps the edges tight and the top kept level. Bravo!

That's great ingenuity. Honestly, I'm impressed.

Very effective and inexpensive. Also a good use of the various left over pieces from other projects. An excellent idea for the average do-it-yourself woodworker with limited funds. Easy to store, lightweight and very flexible. I especially like the ability to apply pressure in both the 'x' and 'z' directions. Also very simple to spread the pressure by adding additional clamps. I will definitely be adding several sets of these clamps to my workshop clamp supply. One can never have to many clamps. Thanks for sharing your good idea. Nice job producing the video also.

Thank-you for making things simple.

Eres un genio Sergio!! Gracias!

Excellent. Simple to make, very cheap and yet effective.

You have shown how a man can make thing happen with a little ingenuity and a lot of want to. I really liked your wedges to make the project tight. Keep up the good work.

You are very clever! Thanks for sharing this idea!

Sergio! Thanks, thanks, thanks! Excellent!

Great idea, will save lot of money.

This is genius! Thanks! Going to give this a try for my desk.

Thank you very much, I need to go make these right now. You have saved me a tonne of money. Good clamps cost a lot of money. So appreciated.

Excellent! I will try this. Thank you!

I'm very short on bar clamps, but who ever has enough! I've been looking at several good videos on making "traditional" bar clamps and I was going to make some. Your idea is ingenious! I will be making several with different lengths. Thanx for the good videos you're producing.

Las ideas geniales casi siempre son sencillas, Gracias hombre!

Thanks for sharing. I'm definitely going to make some of these simple clamps.

fantastic!!!! thanks so much I have used them!!!

This is cheap and very efficient! I really love it, very helpfull

Thank you for posting. I made mine yesterday for a project and they worked out perfectly. I made mine with a few changes. The bars were shaped into tapered cauls so when bolted down on the ends, the bars flatten out the boards. I also added pivot blocks to the bolts, so that only one wedge was required to tighten. I used a 10mm drill bit for 3/8" diameter bolts, which provided just enough wiggle room for the bolts to be inserted. Next improvement will be adding rotating feet to the bottom of the lower bar so they stand up and can be stored away easily. Thank you again.

@wholegrain27

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Question. Did you taper both the top and bottom bar, or just the top??? I was thinking the same, for a panel about 4 wide, but was thinking the bottom bar should be flat.

Brillante, Thank you

This is so good. Thanks for posting.

Thank you for solving a continual problem I’m having; I don’t want to invest a lot of money buying expensive clamps for large glue ups. Your idea is simple, very effective and extremely versatile. Thank you for sharing this excellent idea!

At last! Clamps that can be done by a weekend DIYer. Thank you! I really need this design to help make my block board drainage board for my kitchen.

@WoodworkingwithDIYtools

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Yes, everybody can make this bar clamps easily and fast :D

what a great idea. thank you.

Thank you for sharing your very good and very practical panel clamp design, thanks again.

Very clever! Thank you for sharing this idea!

Util y elegante. Gracias Sergio

Ingenious, simple and effective

I love your videos. Your solutions are easy, inexpensive and effective. Thank you

Awesome video mate, just what I was looking for..Thanks!

Thanks for posting. Very well explained too. Thumbs up

Excellent : simple cheap and effective Thanks

I wish, when making these videos, they would include the suggested wood to use. I love these projects and I am ALSO NEW to woodworking.

Nice!!! Thanks Sergio.

I like this idea. That works very well in the shop when we need to clamp down a temporary fence while we are making our shop's work table.

That is awesome Sergio ! I am definitely making a set

wow! you are amazing! so clever! just by watching 2 video, I've learnt more about wood work than i did my entire life.

Very good idea! I will use this in the future! Thanks for making this video!

This was great! Many thanks for sharing this simple, yet brilliant, idea! I have now subscribed.

Great clamps easy to make and cheap, thanks for sharing

Awesome Sergio By far the best and easiest and cheapest idea I have seen! Thank you so much!

Muchos gracias. Very nice work. Great idea. Thank you.

Brilliant work! Thank you

Amazing. You never cease to amaze me. Another great video