Double Sided Bench Clamp

Love the bench clamp. Pulls a great vacuum and holds the guitar well. I'd love to see a version at some point that has two valves–one for the bench-side vacuum seal and another for the guitar-side vacuum. This would enable the bench clamp to remain mounted when you're using it vertically and want to adjust the position of your guitar body. Otherwise an excellent tool.

Hi Dan, thanks for reaching out! So far, I’ve only had a couple opportunities to use the clamp. It works very well for acoustic guitar builds. I’ve been thinking of making a jig that would allow the clamp to be used at various angles which would make it a lot more versatile. I made a couple tele style electric guitars since and found it not so useful because the disc is too large for solid bodies. One other inconvenience is the outer gaskets easily slip out of their grooves

I’ve used it quite a bit! Works very well but I would offer this comment “ the round gasket material has rolled or slipped and few times, I think because the ends of the gasket slightly pull away from each other” perhaps a few drops of glue placed on the ends of the gasket and a few around the perimeter might help? I will try that on my clamp before I use it next never thought about that until you asked! Thanks for asking! Sometime down the road I’d like to buy one of the bridge clamps! I currently use a plywood homemade one pretty ugly but it works😀