Great video, with simple and effective ideas.

No mater how much you know, you can always learn something new. Thanks for those tips.

Thank you for this one. Well needed information. Last year I stopped at a yard sale and was looking at a couple black iron pipe clamps. A guy stopped and looked at them and pointed out one of the pipes was bent a little, which I had already noticed. Then he gave every reason why these are worthless and he'd never waste his money on them. After he finally shut up and walked away, I grabbed the two pipe clamps, and paid the $5.00 each and left. One pipe needed to be replaced. Still using them.

Sir you made a friend today. I just about live on KZfaq and get so tired of so many guys all full of themselves and also vulgar mouths. You sir are deeply appreciated because you are brilliant with very useful tips but also you are clearly a nice guy who just wants to help and without any arrogance. Thank you for that. Can’t wait to watch all your videos and heap on the thumbs ups!

Just ordered 4 bessey clamps + black pipes and some female couplers so I can put two pipes together (surprised you didnt show this one.. extend pipes for longer stuff with couplers). These seem so much stronger, longer lasting and largely better than the 2x to 3x clamps and so much more versatile.

I’m always surprised by the wealth of knowledge in each video. I’m stoked to start using pipe clamps as a vices. Friggen brilliant. Thanks for the shout out brother!

Izzy, you are just too clever for one man! LOL. I wish I was as clever and creative as you. When I die and come back in my next life, I want to come back like you! I didn't say AS YOU. I think you have that one reserved.

You always have really cool tips. Another thing you can do with pipe clamps is join 2 pipes together with a threaded coupler to make a really long clamp. I made a king size bed for my daughter. I put the pipes together to make clamps long enough to glue up the head and foot boards.

I usually figure if I can get one or two useful tips from a KZfaq video it is worthwhile watching. For this one, though the tips just kept flowing and so fast that it was hard to take them all in. I had to watch it three times to fully appreciate everything. Destined to be a classic.

I don't care what others say, these tips are great! Great ideas for buying pipes, never even thought about it.

I love my pipe clamps. Bought 8 Bessey's. I also bought 4 10 foot black 3/4 pipes and cut them in half with a sawsall. Since they are threaded on both ends, and you only need one end this gives me 8 pieces of pipe with threaded ends on all of them. Smooth out the ends with some sand paper and attach the heads, good to go. I wanted Parallel clamps, but I just couldn't afford them. I needed 48" clamps, and the Bessy's were fine. Also, buy the 10' not the little 4 foot sections, they cost just as much. Buy the longer one and cut it to size. For the pads, Bessy's came with rubber slip on pads. Those work fine. The cork covering, I might want to look into that. FInally, I wish I had your workbench. The size of it is great.

This one of the best ideas I've seen in a good while. Be safe.

thanks as all ways!

Thank you! I make walking sticks and this will help me clamp to carve, GREAT!!!

Some great tips here. Thanks.

Great tips. I find that liquid Goof Off on a rag takes the black coating of well. And If I'm super worried about the finish, I'll size the clamps close (within a couple of inches of the final panel size, and put blue painter's tape on the pipe. That also means any glue squeeze out just gets stripped off with the tape.

GREAT! video - as always, great information - Thanks for sharing

I use parallel bar clamps and I feel like they are superior in almost every category.

I just love my pipe clamps, and use them often. I learned a couple of new tricks today, and for that I thank you. 👍 I use Bessey 1/2" clamps. I like them because they have real crank handles, as opposed to the whimpy bars you often see in the lesser versions and they have 'extenders' on the bottom side that keep you from racking your knuckles as you crank down tension on the handles. Pipe clamps are designed to be used with BLACK pipe. Never forget this. Galvanized pipe is slightly larger in diameter than black pipe, making the tailstock harder to adjust and the galvanized zinc coating is quite soft, which can cause the tailstock to slip, losing your clamping pressure. Black pipe can be a pain in the tukus, but taking a moment once or twice a year to maintain the pipes themselves will insure proper...and happy... experiences. I use Izzy's method of buying pipe...slightly. If I need 12" clamps for gluing up stock for ... hmm, let's say legs, I will buy 24" pipes and cut them in half. I do keep at least a half dozen of each length (on the foot...like one foot, two foot, etc) up to 5' long and change the pipes out depending upon my needs. Don't pay too much attention to the pipe clamps haters. They just don't know how to use and/or care for a tool that dates back to Gramps time. Care for your headstock (the actual clamping pieces) and care for your black pipe, and you'll be a happy 'clamper'!

Thanks, never get enough knowledge. 40 plus years in the trade and still learning.

It’s not often I watch a video with something I’ve never seen or thought of. Everything in this was new and spectacular. Thanks for sharing!

I wanted to pipe up seeing this, yet I will clamp up. 🆙👍

I always love you ideas

Excellent video and process Thanks for sharing I'm glad to see you up and walking. Keep up the excellent creations...

Thanks for the great idea now I have to take the two 3 ft galvanized pipes back to Home Depot and get a 10-ft and get it threaded. This will save me some money

Do we want to see it!!?? Thanks for showing us!

Excellent video, Izzy - you never disappoint me. Art from Ohio

Uncle Henry's hack/jig is so freaking clever!! Definitely adding that to the clamping tool kit! The oxylic acid tip is definitely one of those OH CRAP, save your butt tips! Great video as always Izzy/Maggie!!

We use contact cement and thin blocks of pine or bass wood, 1/4”-3/8” is nice and it’s around the shop,,, always! Also a light sand on the face of the clamp helps the adhesive stick!

Great tips!

Dayum Izzy, awesome!

Well done!

im with you, pipe clamps are great. I am using that great idea to put gasket material on the clamps. Thanks

That TNT clamp rack is da bomb!

Way to go uncle Henry👍👍

😮 She rocking guns

lots of great tips thanks

Brilliant!

Another good reason for black pipe, it allows a better no slip grip by the clamp mechanism. The galvanized coating, being zinc, is soft, it gouges and slips, pushes up ridges of the zinc if you really tighten the clamp. then you have an even bigger job smoothing it out. Great tips, Izzy.

What a great video! Some excellent tips that I'll be using in my hand tool shop. Found a stashj of 36" abandonned galvanized pipes in the old shed here at the complex. Timfe to start threading 'em. 5-Stars love you shows and shop. Retired carpenter age 72 in Michigan.

LOVE IT!!

One additional idea for the clamp protection would be to use some cheap rubber "workshop" mat flooring -- ca. 10 bucks for (4) 25"x25" @ Harbor Freight ("Anti-Fatigue Foam Mat Set, 4 Pack"). Cut them to fit and glue or double-tape them on. Great for making vise clamp protectors, too, and even use them with pliers, etc., as needed.

Yo that pipe clamp rack is 🤯!

Awesome tips!!!

Hands down fantastic tips I will use. Thank you Izzy!

Thank you for another video full of great ideas, Izzy! The TNT system (and JLT) look fantastic. I like that they're modular/expandable. I may whip up a few of them with a few tweaks of my own. All the best, Andrew Thiessen

Great video & more excellent tips & tricks Izzy! Hope that all of you guys are doing well!

Seems like such an obvious thing to do ... yet never thought of mounting a pipe clamp to my workbench like that. (duhhh) Cheers Izz!!

I used a piece of belt rubber glued to end and tail pads. Great clamp ideas thanks for doing the videos.

Iv'e started a new drinking game, every time Izzy says system, take a shot! 🤣

Thank you Izzy, love your videos!

Awesome tips, thank you. Many blessings

Thanks Izzy and Maggy

Those tips are worth my sub

Thank you for sharing your tips and ticks.This will greatly help my shop!

Thanks for sharing those tips and the make!

Thanks you guys! Those tips will come in handy.

I been watching your videos since you were in a small garage ,making a table saw with a circular saw. Always great information. Thanks

Thank You Uncle Henry... Stealing this idea! Needed it many times. Thanks for sharing

Great video as always. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the tips Izzy. Always enjoy your content.

I learned a ton Mr. Swan, many thanks!

Some simply brilliant tips. Thanks.

Great Tips for pipe clamps. I will definitely be using some of these. Thanks for producing the great content

That’s exactly what I did years ago. I wanted different length clamps so I bought had them cut 10 footers, got 8’s & 2’s, 4’s & 3’s. Also if you need longer you can get couplers for in between multiple pieces. I have Home Depot thread both ends after they cut them. Great tip on the cork and double sided tape. A lot less than the pads you can buy. Plus the Harbor freight ones just fall off.

Love you videos and your humor. Great tips and some amazing projects.

Great tips! Thanks sir!

Fantastic tips, Izzy! Thanks a bunch! 😃 I still need to get some of them! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Love the clamp rack that’s fantastic.

Great information, thanks for sharing it with us.

Another great video. Thank you!

Great tips never thought about all the uses for pipe clamps thanks for sharing

Izzy is the man👍

Wonderful tips!! Gonna get me some pipe clamps!!

Idea fantastica.

Very nice info on pipe clamps. They really are very versatile and flexible with just a little thought and imagination.

Thank you for sharing these tips. This will make my woodworking tasks a bit easier

Very cool rack. I think I'll save the $600 and make my own. You can always glue up and remove them from the rack to glue more. This will work better then my wall mounted hanging rack system.

Thank you very much for these tips, love uncle Henry's tip, and the vice holding tip. My pipe clamps are going to get a whole to of use again.

Never seen any of these tips before and they were all fantastic and really useful. That TNT rack is nothing short of brilliant! Thanks for the link. BTW - I also like Andy's cork rubber, but it is pricey. A cost effective alternative is to use a Baler Belt and cut it into smaller pieces. I have Tractor Supply Co near me, and you can pick these up off the shelf and they are good grippy protection for all things vise related.

Great ideas for clamping

The second tip is so simple, it's brilliant!

Great video on pipe clamps. I'm really liking the pipe clamp rack. I shellac all my pipes to keep rust off.

I never would have thought of those uses for pipe clamps thanks

Thank you for your advices👍😁. Helps out a lot 👌😄

Thank you great ideas

Great tips. Thx.

Wonderful video! I learned some neat tricks! Thank you ❤

Great episode!

So innovative. As always, Izzy and Maggie, thank you for sharing 🌞

Great tips and useful to us old timers also.

Pipe panel clamp rack looks very cool

Great tips, gives me some other ideas to try myself. I always used the black pipe, but never thought about waxing the pipe. I’ll have to give that a try too! Just goes to show you can never stop learning better ideas from others! Provided your open minded enough to realize you don’t know everything and others just might have a better way to make your life easier and/or quicker if you’ll just take the time to listen to what someone else figured out you never did yourself! Sometimes ideas are so simple, you wonder why you never thought of it yourself too?

This is the best video I have ever seen on pipe clamps! Thank you!

Very cool tips. Thanks for your videos. They motivate and inspire.

Great video Izzy. You've given me a great info. and great ideas as always. Thank you so much Sir. God Bless Stay Safe.

I LOVE these ideas! I need more clamps (I mean, who doesn't). I will take your tips and tricks into account for sure. The add-on to the work bench is a GREAT idea! It also means I dont' need to buy a bunch of dog-hole tools. Great ideas... keep 'em coming!!

Excellent tips and ideas to ponder for work flow. Thank you 🎈

You never disappoint, Izzy :)

I have a tip for you! If you ever use concealed hinges and have a concealed hinge machine to cut the pocket holes in the back of the doors to install the hinges in? I worked for a company for 4 years that on certain doors would have a hinge that needed to be installed on a door in a higher spot than the normal setting. So the employees were taught to put a pencil mark on the back edge of the door to line up where the pocket drill bit would drill the hole at. After the holes were all drilled then a employee would go back through all the doors and have to sand those pencil marks off. Handling doors twice! One day I thought why are we putting pencil marks on the edge of the doors for? Move the pencil marks in 1/8-3/16” where the hinge machines drill bit will remove the pencil mark with cutting the hinge hole. Still no problem lining up the pencil line in the right place. I tried it and it worked perfectly! Showed the foreman that was speechless for a second or two. Then he smiled and said why didn’t anyone else all these years think of doing this sooner? Such simple methods are often over looked and not ever though about till someone comes along and thinks a little more how something could be done better and quicker saving time and money! Of course the foreman told the boss and my idea was then always used. But did I get anything for helping the company save time ? Nope, not even a thank you! Salved the same company $10,000.00 and the company never knew why they ended up with a huge surplus of money that year and at the Christmas party the employer split the 10 grand between the employer’s brown noses that really didn’t work very hard. Especially when the boss wasn’t around! Like the boss’s buddy that was supposed to be at work on time every morning to let the 35 employees in to start working. But the boss’s buddy would show up anywhere between a half hour to up to a hour late while employees sat in the parking lot waiting for someone to open the building. Of course this buddy also got a huge portion of the 10 grand I saved the company. Naturally when I got around to telling the boss how he got the extra surplus of money, still I didn’t even get a thank you! A simple thing of not letting employees be lazy and going and grabbing full 10-12 foot boards to cut up for projects and tossing the scraps on a large cart and when the cart got full of scraps it all was going down n the dumpster. When the boss put me in charge I stopped that practice and made the employee check the scrap pile on the cart first before going out and grabbing new full length boards. That $10,000.00 in just 1 year ought to give you a good idea how much wood was just going to the dump every week! Amazing though how some companies can waste materials and do other things that they could be doing better to make a better profit and yet they still have a profitable business. Just not as profitable as it could be!