Description
Small Wooden Clamp
Traditional Hand‑Screw Clamp | Compact Bench Tool for Woodworking
This small wooden clamp is a classic hand‑screw style workshop tool designed for holding, gripping, and securing small workpieces during woodworking, carving, gluing, or assembly. With its wooden jaws, wooden screw incorporating a turned wooden handle, it represents the simple, reliable clamping technology used in workshops long before modern metal and composite clamps became common.
The compact size makes it ideal for fine joinery, model making, instrument work, and general bench tasks where a large clamp would be cumbersome. Despite its age and wear, the clamp still operates, with the screw turning freely and the threaded handle opening and closing as intended.
Key Features:
- Small wooden hand‑screw clamp — traditional design used in woodworking and joinery.
- Wooden clamping — gentle on workpieces and ideal for delicate or finished surfaces.
- Hand-cut wooden screw thread — 3 ½” throat provides tightening and controlled pressure.
- Turned wooden handle — comfortable grip, lovely patina and this and the thread all turned from one piece of wood.
- Collectable workshop tool — appealing to restorers, traditional woodworkers and collectors of antique wooden tools.
- Beautifully joints – a pair of hand-cut box joints make up the body of this clamp, one of which has a bit of movement in it
Condition
This clamp shows visible wear consistent with age and workshop use. The wooden jaws have marks and surface wear, and the steel screw shows light oxidation. The handle turns freely, and the jaws open and close correctly.
It has a broken metal screw in the outer edge of the body and another hole near it, implying it may have once been screwed to the workbench.
Structurally, I would not recommend use for heavy clamping without repairing the loose box joints, but it can clamp lighter work successfully. There are no cracks in the jaws or handle and the thread is in remarkable condition.