Homemade plywood clamps for gluing furniture tiles were suggested to us by our subscriber Yuri Yuzhaninov. For their manufacture, 30 mm birch plywood was used. I made it to fit my size 67cm, but it can be made wider.
In principle, everything is clear from the photographs
The base of the vimes are strips of plywood 70 mm wide, 30-40 mm thick and as long as you require, as mentioned above, Yuri’s was 670 mm. In these strips, using a drill and a jigsaw (band saw), grooves are cut in increments of 20-30 mm - no more than half the thickness of the workpiece.
Now let's take a closer look at the second part of the mount - the stops. Front stop- this is a stationary part consisting of a block with a glued nut into which a bolt or piece of a stud is screwed. On one side of which there is a movable lining so as not to wrinkle the shield. And on the second one a handle-twist is welded on. This element is glued to the frame using two “cheeks” coated with glue and reinforced (tightened) with self-tapping screws. 
The second stop is reversible. It also consists of a pair of cheeks, which are connected at the bottom with a screw (it is inserted into the slots in the frame and can be thrown over them, changing the width of the board being glued together). In the upper part, between the cheeks, the same plywood gasket is glued as on the front stop. 
Well, in conclusion, photos of Vime at work. When gluing, it is advisable to place strips of adhesive tape between them and the blanks, otherwise it will be difficult to remove them from the shield.
In this article you will find detailed instructions on production vaims with your own hands.
If you are making furniture from, then you can’t do without joiner's wedge. You don't have to buy it for this. You can make a clamp for gluing with your own hands.
What is a vayma and why is it needed?
A clamp is a structure for assembling and gluing wooden products. Joiner's frame consists of metal frame, with movable and fixed stops. In other words, a clamp is the same clamp, only larger and more powerful.
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What is vayma made from?
Of course, you can try to make a joiner's band from wood, but this will be completely different and you will not be able to achieve maximum results when gluing, for example. Therefore, the press clamp is made from, namely, a metal corner and a channel.
What you need to make your own wedge:
- corner 75 mm 2.5 m - 2 pcs
- corner 75 mm, 1 m - 1 piece
- channel 70 mm 1 m - 4 pcs
- metal rod with thread - 4 pcs
- M36 nuts - 12 pcs.
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Weapon manufacturing process
So let's start making do-it-yourself wires.
First, we’ll assemble the structure with bolts to make it easier to cook. We attach the channel to the 2.5 m corners at the same distance.
We place the short corner along the edge of the first channel perpendicularly between the long corners. It should be welded strictly at 90 degrees, since when gluing doors it is very important point(so that the diagonal matches).
After this, we scald all the joints and joints. IMPORTANT: no need to boil internal joint short corner with channel! Otherwise weld will interfere in the future when gluing wooden products.
Now let's start placing the knobs. There will be 4 of them and they will be made of a metal rod with threads. To do this, we make 4 holes in the upper corner opposite each channel. After this, weld 2 nuts on each side of the corner.
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We weld another nut at the top of each knob to make it convenient to turn them.
Then we weld supports in the lower part so that the structure stands on its own.
Like this do-it-yourself carpentry lining was the final result. Of course it needs to be cleaned and painted, but I think the essence of making door gluing press And wooden shields revealed.
Below is a video showing detailed process production of this weim.
This tool was made Alexey Vagin from Berezniki. The source material was a Soviet shelving system that had been lying around in the garage for many years.
It is represented by several long racks that were placed from floor to ceiling. The thickness of the metal is quite decent - 2 mm. The length of each profile reached 1220 mm. The pitch between the holes was 35 mm. 
Stops for the shelves were attached to them with hooks; the shelves themselves were not preserved over the years. The photo shows a shelf support with hooks. 
In the process of becoming familiar with the wisdom of carpentry, the idea was born to make a clamp from these profiles for gluing furniture panels.
In principle, everything is already ready: take it and use it, except for one thing. The holes in the profile were not along the entire length. The 330 mm ends were deprived of these holes, which significantly reduced the length of the wedge. 
I had to improve it. Given the absence of a grinder, I had to work with my head and then with a drill. Drilled several holes in a row 
and removed the jumpers between them with a washer, which he hit with a hammer. 
Not very aesthetically pleasing, but angrily, the main thing is that the stops are fixed.
To begin with, for testing, the wedge principle of clamping was used, that is, the parts were placed on the frame between the clamps that were most suitable in terms of distance. And then, using wedges, they pressed them against each other and left them to dry. 
The wedges were moved using a pistol clamp, which turned out to be a fairly convenient method. 
Subsequently, it is planned to simplify the clamping process by welding nuts into the holders into which the bolts will be screwed. By tightening the bolts, high-quality clamping will be achieved.
The design in this (wedge) configuration has already been tested. The results were considered satisfactory.
Natural wood and how construction material, and as a material for making furniture does not lose its relevance. Unfortunately, there are not many places left on the planet where trees grow, from the trunks of which one can make solid door leaves, countertops, or even wide window sill boards. Such a simple device as a wedge allows you to make glued blanks for home and garden furniture with your own hands.
Technology for the production of laminated wood panels
Even if the material (log thickness) allows for the production of wide products, they further application raises a number of questions. Things made from solid wood are very difficult to use. Those who have worked extensively with wood know very well what a “propeller board” is.
In order to wooden product solid wood has not been deformed, the material must first be thoroughly dried and, preferably, kept for at least a month in the room where it will be located. This condition is practically impossible to fulfill when we are dealing with door leaf or a window sill board - humidity, temperature changes will inevitably lead to deformation of the product.
Elements made from laminated wood do not have these disadvantages. Bars are taken from the same or different ones, assembled into a single block and glued. In order for the wooden blanks to become a single whole, a special device is used - a clamp. You can easily assemble a fully functional device with your own hands.
A simple wema, assembled “on the knee”
Sometimes there are situations when some type of work needs to be done once. Suppose it is decided to arrange a table made of laminated spruce in the gazebo at the dacha. Does it make sense to buy expensive factory-made clamps? In such cases, a simple, in a sense disposable, wedge is made with your own hands. Drawings of the device are shown below.
In order to glue an array of blanks together once, you will need long self-tapping screws, a screwdriver, a hacksaw and a carpenter's hatchet.
The blanks are laid on a series of transverse beams (beams every 40...45 cm). On both sides of the workpiece, parallel to it, long longitudinal beams (equal in height to the workpiece) are laid and attached to the crossbars with self-tapping screws. On top, again, the upper transverse bars are fastened with self-tapping screws. That's all the vayma, made with your own hands.
To compress the workpiece, all that remains is, as shown in the diagram, to wedge it with specially planed wooden wedges. After the product is ready, the clamp can be disassembled and the material can be used at your discretion.
Steel profile wedge
But sometimes craftsmen assemble wires no worse than factory ones. Here's one option:
The clamping screw is first unscrewed until it stops. The slats are glued and placed on the clamp, starting from the clamping unit. After the array blank has been assembled, it is covered with the top profile pipe, a mating unit is secured with bolts into one of the pairs of holes (depending on the width of the future array).
By rotating the clamping bolt, the workpiece is compressed from the sides. The design of the clamp is made in such a way that the upper and lower pipes are also strongly pressed against each other when the screw is tightened, which makes the future workpiece perfectly flat. This kind of banding, made with your own hands, allows you to make any products - from cutting boards to the door panels.
