Making new and better CNC clamps (free templates) 

This is such a clever idea, Marius! I have been searching for a way to use dog holes on a woodworking bench without a tail vise, and I came here after "Zack of All Trades" referenced your idea for the cam system. Thank you for sharing this with us! Also, thank you for explaining WHY your first design did not work, and what little needed to be done to fix it. It's a good reminder to fully explore an idea before scrapping it (which I do all too often).

Marius, thanks for sharing your videos - I recently retired and finance tight - your videos give me some ideas and I have already made a number of the tools you have shown - Thanks - you are a very gifted young man - thanks

Hallo Marius ! Gratuliere zu deinem RU-vid Channel! Erfrischend zu sehen, das sich jemand in deinem alter sich so sehr für ein Hobby (obwohl es ist eigentlich viel mehr, als nur ein Hobby) interessieren kann. Respekt für dein Fleiss und Ausdauer. Deine Eltern können stolz auf dich sein! Keep up the good work! Grüsse aus Ungarn! 👍

Marius, your use of the calipers , I have never seen nor, never myself, thought of. This would be a great way to make a table saw cross cut sled. As I watched and learned of a very efficient way to hold work pieces squared, and secured to the cnc spoil board, I am amazed at the simplicity when your plan came together to the final outcome. Well done Pilgrim.

Marius I am not at all taking anything away from all the work and dedication you have put into yourself over the years, but I would really like to meet and congratulate your parents some day.

This is awesome. I have been searching for weeks trying to find a good clamp solution. This one is by far the most innovative and problematic. Thank you for sharing!

I have made and used your clamping system and it has worked great.I look forward to watching more of your video tutorials.Thanks for your hard work

I very much appreciate the fact that you always explain the WHY. I feel like I learn far more than the original topic....

Great video!! I have really learned a lot from you. I am 76 years old and have doing woodwork most of my life and I am still inspired still inspired by you and your ideas.

Thanks for sharing your design AND your thinking along the way! Watching you think through the issues that arise and your thorough method of working is as valuable as the final template.

I've been working at a small shop with a big CNC machine for ten years now, and I've made cams like your first version for some special stuff I've had to do. I resorted to screwing the handle down when it was tight and shimming with pieces of edge-banding when the fit wasn't perfect. I only rarely need things like this since we mostly work with much larger pieces (we make kitchen interiors) where the vacuum suction cups the machine comes with work excellently, but I'll keep this video in mind for when I do personal work :) It's a Holz-Her 7120 if you're curious, there are clips of similar machines on youtube. It might be old, but at least it's not a Masterwood 319 like we had before :D

I personally use this idea at my workshop, on a 1,5 x 2,5 mts CNC router. Works flawless. Congratulations for your videos.

Thank you for this. I've been struggling getting clamps to work for a specific project, this was extremely helpful and exactly what I needed.

Very well made and quality videos. I enjoy them all. Thank you Marius!

You sir are a genius! This is the best explanation I’ve seen of why the position of the pin is critical. Very generous of you to supply downloadable STL files. I’m just getting into 3D printing so I was able to import your STL into Fusion and 3D print a template, which I’ve used to transfer the design to some ply. Rather than copper pipe, I’ve 3D printed some pipes which just have a tiny tolerance, so they can turn in the dog holes. I used CA glue to bond these to the ply cam levers, and it’s working beautifully 😊. I thought about 3D printing the whole cam lever and pin, but it would have taken hours on my basic printer! Many thanks again and greetings from the uk.

The outtakes are really a great thing because they show that making such videos is by far not as easy as it looks, even when considering said outtakes, but they still give you a reminder which 99% of RU-vidrs prefers to hide. As for the board improvements of the X-Carve, I wonder if they'll offer boards now with these holes pre-drilled, mhm, gotta look that up.

This is wunderbar! I never knew cams could be used that way to hold things in place, only knew about their use in things like motors/translating movement. Definitely going to try putting to use.

Love the humor in your video's! Being a beginner CNCer I will appreciate the clamps. Thanks

I JUST bought a AVID 4896PRO and this will be my goto clamping system. Thanks for the education and corny humor. Well Done!

Marius, I look forward to each video from you. You are very talented. Thank you very much.

Absolut Klasse wieviel Arbeit Du in deine Videos steckst. Man merkt wirklich wie deine neuen Videos immer besser werden. Mach weiter so :D

Many thanks for sharing your project and kept the video posted. It helps me with my current clamp project for my CNC machine. Thanks!

Thanks Marius, i really enjoy watching your videos !

Thanks so much Marius, well thought of! I've just today be able to recreate (after some scaling to the templates to match a hole of 22mm on my setup) & they work WONDERFULL. Thanks for improving my workshop 🙂 Greetings from Belgium.

since you care about your English, it's ''so that they always have...' Such skill and honesty, can't wait to see what you're making in ten years.

Hi Marius - I love your videos, you simple but brilliant ideas, and your endless enthusiasm. It's amazing to see myself - an old goat - learn from a young but brilliant guy. I guess Jim is right - I would also like to congratulate your parents :-) Keep up the good work

Nice project. Love the editing.

Watched the vid. Made the cams. Worked perfectly. Thanks a million!

Thanks for explaining your design and for sharing the templates! Had a lot of Fun crafting a clamp today!

Watching this with headphones on I started to look for the ticking clock in my room. Soon realized it is in the video :D Excellent explanation of your cam-levers!

Wow! This is spectacular quality video. Very well done.

Marius - I really appreciate that you did not use the CNC to cut the holes, better skills demonstrated the way you did it. Nice video, thanks!

Great job. Good that you mentioned it could be used on just about any work table.

Very nice work. I look forward to making some of these hornberger clamps!

Great video and HUGE thanks for linking the template in the description!

Great explanation . . . I learned and was entertained, nice to see your twin helping !!!

Very clever. Love the Fullerton College t-shirt. I took woodworking classes there years ago and live nearby.

Great video. And fun editing! Great to see a new video from you!

Thanks for that Marius, I have been working on this all afternoon, I have re tensioned the gt3 belts and checked the steps per mm x and y. I had the x and y different values.. I have made them both the same and a 300mm circle came out perfectly. I will try your square suggestion tomorrow.. Made the clamps by the way, they are great! Thanks for your help.. Regards Peter

Wanted to say thanks for the templates! I struggled with the same problem you ran into (in a much more rudimentary shop). Way to go Bud, thank you!

Always great. Always educational. Thanks for sharing.

Another fun, informative and useful video. Thanks again.

I REALLY like the idea of the story stick and I'm glad you drilled the holes that way instead of by CNC. Not all of us have a CNC (yet). I would think that, potentially, this would be just as accurate, if not more so, than a CNC--especially if the machine "drifts" a bit and others have reported.

I just found this video some minutes ago. Thanks for explaining everything. I do not have a CNC but I'll try to cut out the templates as accurate as possible. I just started to make a "dog hole table" today so I was looking for a good clamping system. It seems I have found it. Thanks.

Greatly enjoy your videos. Great information and useful ideas. Thanks again

I love your editing (linke magically asking the wood to go trough the bandsaw) Great vidfeo.

Brilliant idea - well explained. Nice job !!!

nice job.. i love the bloopers after each vid ^^

Very impressed, you’re a remarkable young man, me thinks you’ll do very well in your studies.

Very-very useful, I go and make these today. Thanks man!

Great project. Thanks for the templates.

Bro thank you so much for this explanation, saw your ultimate video before this one and had the exact same issue. Thanks a million, you're an amazing human being!

Excellent idea and VERY informative (and entertaining) video! You just gained a subscriber.

Nice video and thanks for the explanation. For someone that’s new to all this it’s really helpful. 👍

superb work as always ! also the video (editing and montage ) are Very Nice! ! a pleasure to See ! also, super explanation of the Cam sistem !

Dude this is awesome!!! Needed these on the CNC today!! Brian

Hi, thanks for the free templates. Great video, as usual. Saludos desde Argentina!

It’s called involute. It’s a special shape where the contact point is perpendicular to the pivot point. It’s found in nature and gears. Great catch. I almost made that mistake and love the content.

Hi Marius, Thank you for templates, it helped me a lot :)

Thanks for the template, great job.

Thank you , excellent idea's on both clamping devices.

Good explanation on those rotating cam-locks. i tried making those a few years back and failed. Now I know why. Nice job!

Just what I was looking for. Thanks, man!

Thank you for such a great video, and... for the free plans. :)

You are a very clever young man Marius!

well done. great idea and well executed.

Thanks for making the file a download. Appreciated

So impressed, your a young modern Albert Einstein genius

It would be interresting to give you and Mathias Wandel the same woodworking task to solve. Just to see which one comes up with the smoothest solution. I really like the genious simplicity of your solutions. Keep it up 👍

Seven years ago but still super relevant. Thanks!

This is a fantastic tutorial! Thank you!

Thanks for the files!

Dude, that's awesome. Very useful

Fantastic video; love your setup. :)

Hallo Marius. Tolles Video! Danke fürs Teilen, deine Ideen, deine Erklärungen, deine kostenlosen PDFs und besonders für den Unterhaltungswert deiner Kommentare und Outtakes! Grüße von der Dt. Weinstraße, Robert

Excellent idea!

thanks for the templates! Great!

you do great videos and projects thanks

Very informative and entertaining. Thanx!

Cara que ideia maravilhosa parabéns me ajudou muito obrigado.

I Love Yor Movie Magic, :D Keep Up the Good Work, Outtakes *Thumbs Up*

Very hilarious video. Good job.

Love the video work!

Great work!

I need that cnc. Thanks for posting.

Vary nice work and enjoyed the video :)

Professional approach to business! Like!

I thing you will be in the Guinness World Records for "Best Woodworker".

Sehr Schön und auch lustig dazu! Vielen Dank, es hat mich sehr genutzt.

Awesome video man!

Well done, thank you for sharing 👍

Simply genius 😊👍🏼

Nice job Marius.

Excellent engineering

Nice idea, and great video.

Mario I really like your content and your ideas and creativity are fantastic. I want to continue seeing your evolution and I want you to continue sharing your experiences with us. 11:53 Take :good care of your eyes as they are invaluable. Cheers

Brilliant idea many thanks

I like that you are still using that Half shaved Brush :)

Nice stuff. I'm building similar Parf guide systems for my benches and tools with the same types of fence but tend to prefer using horizontal toggle clamps (i.e. Bessey STC-IHH25) instead of cam levers.

Nice work.....love the humor element. Hi from Australia(not Austria) haha!