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If you ever add t-tracks to your jigs, you’ll likely need a clamp to hold your stock in place. They also work with t-tracks cut into the table tops of your machines. You can buy them, but they’re easy to make and they’ll feel like a million dollars every time you use them. To make one, you’ll need 4 pieces of stock and a 2x6 piece of scrap. We’ll glue the 4 pieces of stock together, leaving a gap in the center…which will later house our bolt. After things are dry, we’ll slice our block into 1/16 inch slices, using our thin strip jig. You’ll want 8 slices altogether.

We’ll make a form by cutting this shape out and add a piece of scrap to the edge with 3 screws. Each piece of strip will need to be trained, or flexed, but then we can squeeze the pieces together. I like to use a little water spray bottle to give me more time with the glue up. At the end we’ll sandwich our form together and I found adding a thin dowel gets a tighter area in the crook.

To finish, I round the edges and cut it to size. But the real secret to these is adding a couple strips of tracker runner to the bottom side of the hold down clamps. Not only does it grip your stock really well, but it also lightens the pressure needed to hold things down which, in turn, prevents denting the top of your stock.

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