How to Use Rockler Deluxe Panel Clamps

Flat panels and flush joints are easy to achieve with our Deluxe Panel Clamps to keep things in line. Each clamp sandwiches your panel between two rigid steel cauls, forcing the joints flush and ensuring flat results. This saves you loads of sanding time, and ensures a nice, level surface without dips and high spots. Thoughtfully engineered from thick steel with scissor-action couplers that apply pressure from all sides, they're perfect for gluing up table tops, wide door panels and thick bench tops. With no bowing under pressure, there is no need to stagger your clamps top and bottom. The clamps are easily adjusted for stock up to 3'' thick and can clamp a panel up to 36'' wide. Buy as many as you need—two is a great starting point.

[bigsparky]

Nice system, it's on the pricey side. Just to expensive for me, Rockler has a lot of nice things. Just to pricey

[johnhupp]

A bargain compared to Woodpeckers clampzilla.

[thefalcon]

Hire that guy to do some of your other ads and instructional videos! Great job - makes me want to go purchase those clamps

[joequillun]

I have "brand X" clamping devices similar to these, and needed your video for instructions. It helped. Thanx.

[garagemonkeysan]

Great video, clear instructions. Cool clamps. Mahalo for sharing! : )

[newyorkpaddy]

Magnetic feet, where do you get those?

[enriqueguiterrez]

Where to get the magnetic feet from? Great video. Just bought two pairs since they were $50 off.

[TravisPickle]

what is the recommended spacing between clamp bars, for example on a 6 feet * 24 inch panel? is there a min panel or max panel thickness?

[dominiquereplogle]

where can I find that small square you are using at the beginning?

[wandiwoodworks]

Those look like they work great. I can't bring myself to buy them though because they are really expensive compared to other clamps.

[flt]

These are intriguing but I doubt they'll work well. There are a lot of reviews of the same design clamp at Woodcraft. The problems are 1) the force on the cauls is almost entirely tension, with only a tiny fraction of the clamping force being translated into sandwiching force on the top and bottom of the panel, and 2) what sandwiching force there is will be concentrated on the clamp edges of the panel, not the glue joint that's in the middle (I don't care how "rigid" those cauls promise to be - they will flex just like anything else if the panel wants to buckle). Traditional cauls work because you clamp them from the top and bottom, you don't pull them from the ends.