In this article you will find detailed instructions on production vaims with your own hands.
If you are making furniture from, then you can’t do without joiner's wedge. You don't have to buy it for this. You can make a clamp for gluing with your own hands.
What is a vayma and why is it needed?
A clamp is a structure for assembling and gluing wooden products. The joiner's frame consists of a metal frame with movable and fixed stops. In other words, a clamp is the same clamp, only larger and more powerful.
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What is vayma made from?
Of course, you can try to make a joiner’s lining from wood, but this will be completely different and will not be achieved maximum results when gluing, for example, you will not succeed. Therefore, press weima is made from, namely from metal corner and channel.
What you need to make your own wedge:
- corner 75 mm 2.5 m - 2 pcs
- corner 75 mm, 1 m - 1 piece
- channel 70 mm 1 m - 4 pcs
- metal rod with thread - 4 pcs
- M36 nuts - 12 pcs.
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Weapon manufacturing process
So let's start making do-it-yourself wires.
First, we’ll assemble the structure with bolts to make it easier to cook. We attach the channel to the 2.5 m corners at the same distance.
We place the short corner along the edge of the first channel perpendicularly between the long corners. It should be welded strictly at 90 degrees, since when gluing doors it is very important point(so that the diagonal matches).
After this, we scald all the joints and joints. IMPORTANT: no need to boil internal joint short corner with channel! Otherwise weld will interfere in the future when gluing wooden products.
Now let's start placing the knobs. There will be 4 of them and they will be made of a metal rod with threads. To do this, we make 4 holes in the upper corner opposite each channel. After this, weld 2 nuts on each side of the corner.
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We weld another nut at the top of each knob to make it convenient to turn them.
Then we weld supports in the lower part so that the structure stands on its own.
Like this do-it-yourself carpentry lining was the final result. Of course it needs to be cleaned and painted, but I think the essence of making door gluing press And wooden shields revealed.
Below is a video showing detailed process production of this weim.
Sometimes a home craftsman needs to assemble bars or boards into a shield himself. Of course, you can buy the necessary wire for this job (and this option will be more than correct), but this requires certain finances, considerable ones, and also an hour of searching. In connection with this, in a number of options it is more expedient to construct a mount, at least for reasons of efficiency. The most important thing is that she fulfills the task assigned to her.
I needed to make a durable door leaf non-standard sizes For . The blanks for it were planed boards, polished and calibrated in thickness, but different widths. In addition to them, an additional block was also needed. Glue, N96 biscuit dowels, as well as a lamellar milling machine and others necessary tools I had them in the workshop, but, unfortunately, I haven’t acquired a rim yet. However, what remained from the construction site were bars with a cross section of 50x50 mm, from which it was decided to assemble the device.
I selected the bars for the device based on the dimensions of the blank panel (900x2000 mm). I assembled the device on the floor. Having laid the first row of five transverse bars parallel to each other, approximately 1.2 m long in increments of 45 cm, I connected them on one side with a longitudinal bar slightly longer than 2 m, using self-tapping screws Ø6x90 mm. The second longitudinal bar is adjustable. It is fastened in place each time: a set of bonding boards is laid close to the first beam, then expansion wedges (I prepared five pairs) and a second longitudinal beam.
The expanding wedges being pushed towards each other create quite a lot of force, so another row of three transverse bars was attached to the top of the first longitudinal beam, which also keep the shield from bending when tightened. These bars, like the second longitudinal one, are unscrewed when readjusting the device, but only on one side, and are removed to the side by rotating on the remaining screws.
The device turned out to be quite convenient, and it can be used to hold together boards up to 100 cm wide. When the band is not in use, it easily folds and takes up very little space when stored.
Before joining the next elements of the shield, I selected grooves for biscuit dowels in their joining edges. Vaima prepared for the operation: he placed a longitudinal thrust block and laid a film over the transverse bars at the new joint so as not to stain the floor with glue.
By gluing the dowels into the grooves of one of the elements...
... coated the grooves of the other element and the joining edges with glue. Then I joined the elements, laying them on the bottom row of transverse bars of the clamp. This must be done quickly before the glue thickens.
This tool was made Alexey Vagin from Berezniki. As source material a Soviet shelving system was used, which long years laying around in the garage.
It is represented by several long racks that were placed from floor to ceiling. The thickness of the metal is quite decent - 2 mm. The length of each profile reached 1220 mm. The pitch between the holes was 35 mm. 
Stops for the shelves were attached to them with hooks; the shelves themselves were not preserved over the years. The photo shows a shelf support with hooks. 
In the process of becoming familiar with the wisdom of carpentry, the idea was born to make a clamp from these profiles for gluing furniture panels.
In principle, everything is already ready: take it and use it, except for one thing. The holes in the profile were not along the entire length. The 330 mm ends were deprived of these holes, which significantly reduced the length of the wedge. 
I had to improve it. Given the absence of a grinder, I had to work with my head and then with a drill. Drilled several holes in a row 
and removed the jumpers between them with a washer, which he hit with a hammer. 
Not very aesthetically pleasing, but angrily, the main thing is that the stops are fixed.
To begin with, for testing, the wedge principle of clamping was used, that is, the parts were placed on the frame between the clamps that were most suitable in terms of distance. And then, using wedges, they pressed them against each other and left them to dry. 
The wedges were moved using a pistol clamp, which turned out to be a fairly convenient method. 
Subsequently, it is planned to simplify the clamping process by welding nuts into the holders into which the bolts will be screwed. By tightening the bolts, high-quality clamping will be achieved.
The design in this (wedge) configuration has already been tested. The results were considered satisfactory.
Natural wood and how construction material, and as a material for making furniture does not lose its relevance. Unfortunately, there are not many places left on the planet where trees grow, from the trunks of which one can make solid door leaves, countertops, or even wide window sill boards. Such a simple device as a wedge allows you to make glued blanks for home and garden furniture with your own hands.
Technology for the production of laminated wood panels
Even if the material (log thickness) allows for the production of wide products, their further use raises a number of questions. Things made from one piece solid wood Well, they are very capricious in operation. Those who have worked extensively with wood know very well what a “propeller board” is.
In order to wooden product solid wood has not been deformed, the material must first be thoroughly dried and, preferably, kept for at least a month in the room where it will be located. This condition practically impossible when we are dealing with door leaf or a window sill board - humidity, temperature changes will inevitably lead to deformation of the product.
Elements made from laminated wood do not have these disadvantages. Bars are taken from the same or different ones, assembled into a single block and glued. In order to wooden blanks become one, is used special device- vayma. You can easily assemble a fully functional device with your own hands.
A simple wema, assembled “on the knee”
Sometimes there are situations when some type of work needs to be done once. Suppose it is decided to arrange a table made of laminated spruce in the gazebo at the dacha. Does it make sense to buy expensive factory-made clamps? In such cases, a simple, in a sense disposable, wedge is made with your own hands. Drawings of the device are shown below.
In order to glue an array of blanks together once, you will need long self-tapping screws, a screwdriver, a hacksaw and a carpenter's hatchet.
Workpieces are stacked in a row cross beams(beam every 40...45 cm). On both sides of the workpiece, parallel to it, long longitudinal beams (equal in height to the workpiece) are laid and attached to the crossbars with self-tapping screws. On top, again, the upper transverse bars are fastened with self-tapping screws. That's all the vayma, made with your own hands.
To compress the workpiece, all that remains is, as shown in the diagram, to wedge it with specially planed wooden wedges. After the product is ready, the clamp can be disassembled and the material can be used at your discretion.
Steel profile wedge
But sometimes craftsmen assemble wires no worse than factory ones. Here's one option:
The clamping screw is first unscrewed until it stops. The slats are glued and placed on the clamp, starting from the clamping unit. After the array blank has been assembled, it is covered with the top profile pipe, a mating unit is secured with bolts into one of the pairs of holes (depending on the width of the future array).
By rotating the clamping bolt, the workpiece is compressed from the sides. The design of the clamp is made in such a way that the upper and lower pipes are also strongly pressed against each other when the screw is tightened, which makes the future workpiece perfectly flat. This kind of banding, made with your own hands, allows you to make any products - from cutting boards to the door panels.