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Darrel Friesen
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50 clamps had a material cost of about $150 and it took me about a week to build. It was quite a project but I am glad I bit the bullet and got it done. I felt like I had given every other method a fair chance and they all had short comings. The thing that really forced me to go this route was building a replacement body for a 1931 Martin O-18 that had no bindings. I wanted zero gaps on the joints since they were exposed.


Not sure how you cut the mortises for the bars on your cam clamps, but after having built a lot, I found it super easy to cut the mortises on my table saw using a tenon jig and then filling the back of the mortise with a glued in spacer. Very quick compared to how I originally did them. Hope that makes sense.
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SteveSmith wrote:
A lot of us use fiberglass rods. I've been using mine for over 10 years and never had one break. Mine are 3/16" and came from a kite supply store. They provide about 7 lbs of force each. Get the rubber tips too if you go this route.

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I picked up a bunch of 7/16" x 5/16" x 24" fiberglass bars at a LeeValley sale a lot of years ago for $0.60 each on sale. I have a bag of cork bits I use with them and have been too lazy to rubber tip or anything yet. Best go bars ever according to me. :)
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I use a go bar deck for several things, but for gluing on backs I sometimes use pipe insulation.


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Darrel Friesen wrote:
Not sure how you cut the mortises for the bars on your cam clamps, but after having built a lot, I found it super easy to cut the mortises on my table saw using a tenon jig and then filling the back of the mortise with a glued in spacer. Very quick compared to how I originally did them. Hope that makes sense.


Darrel, that makes perfect sense and has some similarity to my method. I built up with 3 layers of 1/4" baltic birch plywood. Lots of little pieces of plywood and spacers to deal with but the process was kind of fun.
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I started using some UHMW 3/8" as clamping aids. Cut to the sharp of the guitar body with a 1/4" overhang. Works very well and allows me to clamp more consistently with both pressure and overall surface area. I could effectively reduce the number of clamps.


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