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 for a solid wood product not to deform, 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 is assembled, it is covered with an upper profile pipe, and a mating unit is bolted 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.
Wooden fixtures never lose their relevance and never go out of fashion. They are highly environmentally friendly, natural, and can be used to construct almost any piece of furniture. They serve long time and lend themselves well to restoration. You can make stools, doors, steps from wood with your own hands. For production, the craftsman needs numerous tools that allow him to work with the material. These are carpentry weims. They are familiar to everyone, but their size is much larger.
Why do we need joiner's wires?
Production wooden products Doing it yourself is not an easy job, requiring high precision work and the ability to work with tools. Do-it-yourself carpentry clamps should not be called a press, since they are not equipped with a mechanism for drying the glue. They are a large and powerful clamp.
Joiner's weims are used for the following cases:
- gluing parts with an unusual shape;
- fixing facing edges;
- assemblies of ply and boards, timber;
- designing frames, frames of furniture, chairs;
- cladding of relief, flat and volumetric surfaces;
- wood splicing;
- assembly of frame products (windows, doors);
- production of steps, stairs.
Hand made product
Making clamps with your own hands is not a difficult task. The design of the weim is based on a load-bearing beam with high strength. A profile pipe is used for this purpose. It has a square or rectangular cross-section. More load-bearing beam DIY weaves are made from metal corner or a piece. The last option allows you to build a high-quality structure of the wedge, but it will turn out to be very heavy.
The main condition for using the material is its high strength and resistance to stress. A do-it-yourself wedge should not be deformed during use. When making clamps, you need to pay attention to the strength of the stops, which will experience high loads.
What materials will be needed
To build homemade clamp, first you need to collect necessary materials and tools. To work you will need:
- profile pipe, metal corner or channel;
- fastening elements: nuts, screws, self-tapping screws;
- stops;
- building level and squares;
- metal welding machine;
- wooden spacers.
Do-it-yourself carpentry clamps must be strong and strong, otherwise, with great effort, you can bend or break the structure. To prevent this from happening, the stops must be resistant to heavy loads and be well fixed to the beam. It is necessary to make sure that they can easily move in the longitudinal direction. To be able to process workpieces big size with your own hands, you need to fix the clamps on the clamps so that they can be moved.
Fastening elements must also have high strength. It is better to give preference to reinforced construction and nuts. Due to the high load, store materials quickly break down. In order for the carpentry clamps designed by yourself to be of high quality and effective, you should order fasteners and stops from a turning workshop.
Instructions for performing the work
All work on producing a rim with your own hands involves several stages:
- Preparation profile pipe. Its length is 1.2 m.
- Assembly of bolted structures. It will be convenient to weld the clamp elements together. For assembly on corners whose length is 250 cm, a channel is attached at the same distance.
- The edge of 1 channel and the short corner should be perpendicular to each other, and located between the long fragments. Under the nuts it is necessary to place spacers, the thickness of which is 1 cm.
- Processing of joints by welding. The internal joint between the short angle and the channel is not processed. If this condition is not met, the seam resulting from welding will create problems when gluing wooden workpieces.
- Making clamps from a metal rod. Its diameter is 5 cm. A 1 cm hole is drilled at the end of the screw. 2 ball bearings are installed inside it to reduce friction.
- Welding the nut. The screw must be parallel to the profile. If this rule is not followed, the part will be clamped with pushing.
- Making clamps from the corner and securing them. For fixation, holes are drilled in the material, the diameter of which is 1.2 cm. Pins are inserted here, allowing you to change the position of the workpiece during the manufacture of a wooden product.
Stops are welded to the bottom of the resulting structure, thanks to which it will be stable. When making the wedge with your own hands, you need to ensure that all the parts are parallel. A building level is used for this. Welding seams should be small. In the process of fastening parts, it is important to ensure that the metal does not deform during heating.
Features of making a simple wedge from self-tapping screws and timber
Sometimes the master needs large clamp for the manufacture of one product. This does not require a permanent structure. You can make disposable weims with your own hands. To make the tool you will need:
- wooden beam;
- durable long self-tapping screws;
- jigsaw or hacksaw;
- screwdriver;
- carpenter's axe.
To properly build a structure, you first need to make a drawing of it. The technology for making a simple wedge is as follows:
- wooden elements are laid horizontally on a flat surface;
- place the workpiece. The distance between elements is 40 cm;
- on both sides of it, a long beam is placed strictly parallel, fixed to the crossbars using self-tapping screws;
- to compress the workpiece, the clamp is wedged with special wedges;
- As soon as the product sticks together, the clamp should be disassembled. Its elements can be further used for different purposes.
Do-it-yourself carpentry clamps - great tool for the manufacture of doors, steps, window frames. Even if a person does not produce furniture, he can significantly reduce the cost of renovating his home.
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, the press clamp is made from, namely, a metal corner and a 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.