The C-clamps hanging on your garage walls with 16d nails or snuggled between the 2 x 4 framing sitting on fire blocks collecting cobwebs can be a dude’s best friend. Let’s say you’re working on a project that lies flat on your table and is too wide to get enough pressure in the middle to hold it down nice and secure to the table. Your woodworking clamps won’t reach far enough to suck it down for whatever operation you want to do. Be it dadoing, rabbeting, gluing, or drilling shelf holes, you need your work to be tight to the table to prevent misalignment and ultimate chaos in the machining or gluing process. Using cawls and clamps at each end, you can get your pieces flat and snug to each other to get even pressure for machining or gluing. Read More