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You never have enough clamps, but you can have the right five kinds. Parallel clamps for panels, a right-angle clamp for carcases, holdfasts for the bench, and one that holds what nothing else will.
A circular saw guide rail system with an uncertain supply chain. What it did well, and the track guide that is easy to buy today.
An Australian vacuum clamping system sold direct. How vacuum workholding works, and the Amazon-available alternative.
A pushblock that grips the offcut, the keeper and the fence face at once. Awkward to set up, and the reason narrow rips stop being frightening.
The parallel clamp that undercuts Bessey. Slightly less refined, considerably cheaper, and clamps need to be bought in numbers.
A face clamp bent through 90 degrees, with 5 inches of reach. It solves one specific problem in pocket-hole assembly and does nothing else.
A clamp that drops into a plate flush with your bench top, holds work down from above and gets out of the way when it is done.
A long handle, a non-slip pad and a replaceable heel. It is a better shape than the offcut you have been using, and that is the whole pitch.
Leigh sells hold-downs direct for its own jigs. If you want general-purpose bench hold-downs today, the answer is a pair of holdfasts.
A featherboard that sticks to the cast iron instead of living in the mitre slot. Switch on, switch off, move it anywhere on the table.
A steel pin epoxied into your own zero-clearance insert. It is a riving knife for saws that never had one, and it costs less than a blade.
Torquata is Timbecon's house brand, sold direct in Australia. The Kreg Accu-Cut is the track guide you can order today.
A foot-operated clamping horse that puts 2,200 lb on a workpiece and folds flat. It holds things no vice can, and it is heavy.
Veritas sells its straight-edge guide through Lee Valley only. The Kreg Accu-Cut is the track system you can order today, and it works differently.
The K-Body REVO is the clamp most cabinetmakers end up standardising on. Here is what the 1,700 lb jaw actually buys you, and why you cannot own just two.
Kreg's Automaxx corner clamp squares up boxes, drawers and cabinets without a third hand — as long as you accept its price and its bulk.