What's a long board clamp?

[Steve Maskery]

This is embarrassing. Yesterday I was looking through something I had written, and amongst the list I had written "long board clamp".

Now I don't know if that is a long board-clamp, or a long-board clamp. But I can't for the life of me remember why I wrote it! I've been into my workshop to see if I could find anything which would answer to that description, but I'm none the wiser.

Does anyone have any idea what I was on about? What on earth is a long board clamp?


Steve

 

[George_N]

What on earth is a long board clamp?


Steve

Issa clamp for yer long boards innit :lol:

 

[Alf]

Wild shot in the dark - maybe something of greater length than a short board clamp...?

 

[tiler99]

Perhaps you were bored for a long time while sorting out a clamp.

 

[Steve Maskery]

I should have known better on a Friday afternoon...
S

 

[Jake]

Clearly, an along-board clamp is one at right angles to your cross-board clamps*.


*quite what use it is, heaven knows.

 

[CHJ]

*quite what use it is, heaven knows.

Yeh, goes against the grain a bit don't it.

 

[Keith Smith]

It's a bit caulling to forget what you wrote :? :wink:

Keith

 

[Scrit]

A clamp that's been off school for too long and really should be out in the garden playing? :?

 

[DomValente]

You have a project in the near future which requires a clamp longer than any you have now.

Dom

 

[Steve Maskery]

](*,)

I'm going to have to delete this thread, aren't I?

:roll:
S

 

[DomValente]

So mine wasn't right then, that's what usually happens to me.

 

[woodbloke]

Steve - I would without a shadow of a doubt ask Steve Wright on R2, or even better ....'ask Elvis' .....



.....mind you, a long bored cramp would have been lying around not doing much for a while - Rob

 

[Scrit]

](*,)

I'm going to have to delete this thread, aren't I?

:roll:
S

 

[Jake]

Didn't just skip a comma? Long board, clamp...

 

[Steve Maskery]

It was in a list of jigs I had in a running order, so clearly it was something I have made in the past.

Anyway, thanks for the sensible answers, and I'm glad your Friday afternoon hasn't been wasted to the rest of you!

I'll be more careful what I ask in the future.

S

 

[cumbrian]

It's an anagram of "call bag damn poor". Does that help? :wink:

 

[Chris Knight]

Steve,
Was it your shooting board for veneer?

 

[Steve Maskery]

CHris, that was my first thought too, but I have that separately. I must be going (even more) bonkers. It's one thing writing stuff that no-one else understands, but when I start writing stuff that even I don't understand...

Thank you, anyway!
S

 

[Alf]

I should have known better on a Friday afternoon...

That was the other thing I almost said.

Sorry, Steve, but even on a Monday afternoon I think you'd be unlikely to get the right answer to this one. It'll probably come to you about 4 in the morning - six months from now, IME... :roll:

Cheers, Alf