“You Can _Never_ Have Enough Clamps”

This is a project for a friend's birthday. She received a dart board as a gift and inquired about having a backboard behind it to protect her finished wall in the garage. Rather than just a cut-piece of unfinished plywood, we had settled on a more decorative design with molding around the edge. Here's the 4×4' piece of plywood, which Clare has stained, with a piece of “glass bead” glued to the edge and clamped. (I didn't want to use nails and pre-drill a bunch of holes so the molding wouldn't split.) Then the challenge was how to clamp the molding … since the molding isn't exactly flat on top. In the end I turned another piece of molding upside-down and pressed the complementary shapes together. Voila! Fortunately, I had enough clamps for this 4-foot edge. Of course, more than nine would have been better… and it would be even cooler if all the clamps were the same…
» The finished project
» The sign in Ben Napier's workshop
» For “Home Town” fans: The Scotsman Woodshop

Looking back
1 year ago: “Last morning [Travel day]”
2 years ago: “Silvery Checkerspot [Filler]”
3 years ago: “Anesthesia”
4 years ago: “San Francisco — Day 3”
5 years ago: “Eastern Pondhawk (♂) on a very sad day…”
6 years ago: “What's next, asking for a volunteer to fly it?”
7 years ago: “Orange Sulphur (first of the year)”
8 years ago: “Jars in a kitchen window”
9 years ago: “In the shade of an old, oak tree”

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