$50 of tools gets a $20 gift card, $100 gets $40, $150 gets $60, and $200 gets $80.
I was able to pick up $201 in K-Bodies at the Berlin HD, which will get me an $80 card. The $80 card will be used for supplies that I would have purchased anyway for an upcoming repaint.
Of course, if there's nothing you need that can be purchased with a BORG gift card, the sale isn't that great. Buying unnecessary crap just 'cause it's on sale kind of negates the benefits.
On another note, have you been to Harris lately? If so, how's the red oak and maple stock look?
This is all true, I even called the phone number on the rebate form to verify that clamps count as "hand tools". Although I'm not sure you can continue to mail in it multiple times (Don't want to be tempted to spend another $200 anyhow)..
The guy said basically anything in the tools section that didn't run on batteries or have a cord qualified for the rebate.. so this is a pretty good sale/promotion.
Now if one were to buy $200 worth of K-bodies and then use the $80 gift card to buy $80 more of K-bodies, they would get $280 worth of K-bodies for $200. This is equivalent to a little over 28% off sale (as opposed to the 50 some % off previously on Jorgy's - of course most evryone interested can get in on the K-body "sale" :)
How do you get the stinking UPC code from the clamps? The only UPC on the ones I've seen are glued to the handles, and I'm not sure God could get them off in one piece.
I was worried about that myself as the UPC's on the Bessey's I've had for a while couldn't be scraped off in one piece. This time I just picked the clamps that had UPC's that were easy to remove.
So what size clamps are the most useful. I have 2 50" and 4 31". Should I add some 12" and 24" clamps to the mix? Maybe some 40" ones. Which ones do you guys find most useful?
When I started wooddorking I bought only 36" Jorgy bar clamps, thinking you could always use a longer clamp where a shorter one would do. It didn't take too long to cure me of that. When clamping a stop block to the TS fence, a 6" clamp works much better than a 36". ;-)
For bar clamps I have 4 36", 3 24", 4 18", 7 12" & 1 4". This mix is usually enough for the stuff I do.
BTW, I bought two of these. They are a different color than my Jorgys but seem to work fine. $5 for 24".
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6" is on sale for $3.
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I use the 31's and 24's most often, as I use K-bodies most often for perfectly square doors. I have some 40's that usually substitute for
31's.
It all depends on what YOU make!
For casework, I've always had good luck with any pipe or bar clamp that will fit, as the mechanical joinery does enough to keep things square, so I've never bought 50" K-bodies.
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:11:27 GMT, B a r r y B u r k e J r . pixelated:
For the poor sots who missed the Woodcraft Ripo^H^H^H^HSale, HFT is having a clamp sale. Their lifetime-guaranteed Pittsburgh line of bar clamps is on sale at half price thru 11/10/03.
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