: I am gluing up some 1/8" cherry to use as a deck in a Wee
: Lassie. I recalled a clamp that i learned many years ago from a
: colleage when I was teaching. It is called the "Spanish
: Luthiers clamp". I is very inexpensive and it allows you to
: glue up several very thin pieces of wood edge to edge. I have
: used waxed paper here, but I will use packing tape on the bottom
: strips and the wedges next time. I consists of three lower
: battens, three wedges and some string. Pieces to be glued up
: arranged on the lower battens and the glue applied tot he edges.
: Then the string is wrapped around the battens in a figure 8
: pattern and finally the wedges shoved into the figure 8's.

Hi John,
Thanks for telling me the name of that technique, I've used the same for years for clamping for edge gluing, never heard that name. Though it's the same basic thing as a Spanish windlass, rope and sticks to tighten something.
They're not really Spanish, everyone comes up with the idea at some point. :)

Mike Savage
South West Cork