QUICK-GRIP Bar Clamps for Woodworking, One-Handed, Heavy-Duty, 12" (1964712)

Great value for money and really easy to use the clamp. It has such good quality and utility and holds it. It’s a great functionality and gift.

I'm a hardcore woodworker. I've used these heavy duty clamps for about 20 years. The only thing better than one of these clamps is several of them. With a little practice you can routinely reach for one of these clamps with one hand (while the other hand is holding a couple pieces of wood together), flip the clamp upside down, press the release trigger, and gravity will slam it shut. Then you can torque it as tight as you want with the big trigger. These clamps can squeeze as hard as a screw clamp, but they're 10 times faster and don't mar the wood. A friend of mine at work said he wouldn't buy these because the jaws are plastic. He is a fool who will never know what he's missing. These clamps are incredible tools. I recommend, and I'm certain you won't regret your purchase.

Heavy duty clamps, work well.

I evaluated many similar products before settling on this more expensive name-brand clamp. I am very happy with the decision. This is solidly made, and works very well.

I ended up with eight of these for a very involved roofing project. The 2x6x16 lumber used was from a big box store, poorly dried and warped horribly when left out while building the lean to roof. Used these to 'straighten' the rafters using both clamp and spreader configuations during sheathing installation, fix the rafter bird mouth cut to the 4x6 header while fastening with screws to maintain a tight joint. These work wetted by the rain as well as they do dry, although I did blow them down with compressed air after removal. These clamp TIGHT with little to no flex of the bar between the ends. Impressive quality!

I love the size and strength of this clamp. It works well for holding work down to a bench. Sometimes the jaw pad falls off when bumped and the bar doesn’t slide as smoothly as my comparable Dewalt clamps, making it a little more cumbersome to operate one handed.

This clamp/spreader is impressive! I needed a tool to stretch replacement chair slings that I installed on my patio chairs. Previous attempts with cheaper spreaders had failed. I even tried to use a scissor jack for a car, and bent it before the slings would stretch enough to fit the bars back into the chair frame. This Irwin Heavy Duty clamp/spreader did the job! It worked well for my patio chair application and I'm sure that I'll get plenty of additional use from this tool for years to come!

I store them clamped to an overhead garage truss so it is out of the way. Definitely stronger grip than the smaller sizes, so much I need to ensure I don’t over tighten them. So simple to use my young son knows them well.