It was extremely satisfying watching you use that plane sir!

Well done! I'm using similar clamps but with size 84 rubber bands which are 1/2 inch wide. I also used my bench grinder and quickly ground a groove in the end of the clamp handles to help keep the band from sliding off. Great idea and thanks for sharing!

Oh, I also just found your channel and love it. Keep up the great work. Definitely building a bench bull. I saw all the great uses for it in your black and decker workmate upgrade video.

I don't understand the thumbs down. BIG THUMBS UP ON THIS ONE! Great job!

Nice tip , I have a dozen bandy clamps and like them but this help all my other spring clamps do the same thing

Great idea for a more permanent clamp I used the metal 1$ clamp from Home Depot And strips of bicycle inner tube crazy glued around the metal tips and you put the plastic covers back over the ends the work fantastic

Just found your channel. Great idea. I was trying to think how to do this two days ago. Now I know.. Thanks a bunch. subbed

Nice work, Marty and also nice to see a little love for Sun Microsystems (I'm a software engineer since mid-80's).

I'm working on a coffee table and put on some walnut edge banding this weekend, and like you, I prefer a plane to trim the banding over a router. I first take the banding through my drum sander to get it within 1/8 or about 3mm proud of the thickness of the sheet glue and then take it down flush with a no. 62 LN. Walnut is just such a pleasure to work with. I too saw those bandiclamps but decided to use my parallel clamps instead. If it weren't for the difference in grain pattern, you'd never know I edge banded the plywood. I mitered the banding and it was the first time I've used my Kapex for miter joints and I was amazed at how accurate it was. I did have to use my lion miter to dial in the very last joint though. Grizzly has those framing miters on sale now. If you've never used one, they're a pleasure to use and give you a lot of control.

Love it Marty. I have looked at the Rockler clamps too, and was really turned off by the high price. Great alternative!

I enjoyed your presentation. at the beginning having never seen you I thought "oh man this is going to a little boring" BUT I was wrong and you just saved my some impulse buying money. Thank you very much for that. I'm going to buy some rubber bands. I've subscribed and will be watching you from time to time. Oh I also liked the hand plane concept.

I have 8 of the Rockler clamps. I was just about to order 12 more when I saw your video. This makes a lot more sense than spending $15 each for the Rocker clamps. Thanks for the idea.

Great tip…….you have a nice “calm” shop going.

On my way to HD, if not there will hit HF for the clamps. Then on to staples for rubber bands. Thanks for the tip and sharing!

Brilliant solution Marty!

I'm building a sofa table for my house as practice for a coffee table I want to build next. I just put some oak trim on the edge of a sheet of plywood. I wish I would have seen this before. But now I know, and I can use it on the more important project.

Excellent idea Marty. I got a bag of clamps that look identical a few years ago here in New Zealand. I'm definitely pinching that idea! :-)

Great idea Marty. Thanks.

Very creative job. Congratulations.

Thanks so much, you made it very clear and simple. Quite useful!

Great job. This video just goes to show that it's the operator, not the tools.

Great idea. If you use Theraband latex excise bands instead of elastics they would last a lot longer, won't dry up and you can cut them to any length and width you want. You can also get them in different strengths. And relatively inexpensive. And they are handy around the shop for so many other things.

That's a very clever idea!

Bench Bull, fair to HF, excellent tip. Enjoyed your HF plane video but this one had me hitting the subscribe button. Good voice and great style of presentation. Keep up the good work on your channel.

thanks Marty. great idea as usual.

Nice results Marty. I've purchased same clamps from HD (Canada), but you beat me to doing the rubber bands test.

Great Idea Marty! You remind me of Paul Sellers. He always has a "poor mans" version of a tool. Nice job tuning that HF plane too. Its tricky with that double screw adjuster.

Very innovative!

I've been wanting to buy those clamps at HD they are a bunch in a bag at a very decent price compare to the one in HF, thanks for the tips great video to learn :)

Nice idea - thanks

Nice video...great tips

On a separate note - I threw a bag of those HDX clamps in our camping trailer. I use them for all kinds of things when we are out.

Another Great tip Marty Thank You for this. You are going to make me a big of HF LOL, one just opened up about 10 miles from where I live so I think I need to make a road trip, also swing by HD and see if my HD has the bag of clamps you bought. So I see you use the Titebound standard glue, do you like that better than type 11 or 111. I am not sure what part of the country you are from but I have noticed that depending where you live HD products can be a hit or miss at times. That is the big box store where I live unless I want to travel a little bit. Thanks for your videos as I am learning and enjoyed these very much. Steve

no sh#t!- ive been pondering how to make a diy version of those bandy clamps for the longest time..i tried epoxying a couple rubberbands to the inside of the clip but that was a mess..haha thats awesome marty thanks for sharing that.gonna give this a try for sure..and now i have to go.to harbor freight and buy the 33. for a rainy day when I know I have a few hours to kill I'll do some fine-tuning once then again that's an awesome idea man

What is the material for the bench bull? Looks like 3 pieces of 4x4? Glued and screwed or just glued or dowel or ? Thanks

I just wish I could find a clever non-bag way to store the HD/HF clamps. Thanks for the idea - off to Staples now.

Made my own using broccoli bands... does the job

Just thinking about it for a second will tell there will not be enough clamping pressure pushing out all of the gapping.

I HAVE A LOVE- HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH ROUTERS. LEARNING TO USE HAND TOOLS IS INVALUABLE. GREAT IDEA WITH THE NEW AND IMPROVED(LESS EXPENSE) "BACKE CLAMP".DOCMEBANE, N.C.

I did that exact same experiment about a month ago. I didn't like the way the rubber bands stretched so I purchased some Big Ass rubber bands made out of silicon, (yep, that's what they're called) from Amazon, cut them up and zip tied them to the clamps. They work just fine. Still much more inexpensive than Rockler. Let's see whatcha come up with for the bench cookie hack. (Hint, I made mine out of scrap wood and old mouse pads)

Wow awesome idea. I wont be ordering bandiy clamps now

Hi, I like the rubber band trick, but you may want to change the title just a little bit to let non-subscribers know that this is a part 2 of what would seem to be a clamp comparison video. I was expecting to see Harbor Freight Spring Clamps, not HDX Spring Clamps.

I believe that the plane doesn't dig into the melamine, but I don't understand why. Please explain.

Wouldn't it have been easier to just stretch those large rubber bands all the way around the shelf. that way you could do two sides at once. Yes I know that this video was about the comparison of band clamps. But why use clamps at all if not needed.