Alpha JackClamp Review and Giveaway
JackClamp Woodworking Bar Clamp
Lowell Thomas Tool, Inc. recently sent me the new JackClamp to review and also giveaway to two lucky winners! The JackClamp is a new generation woodworking bar clamp that uses two parallel bars instead of one. The additional bar makes this new bar clamp extremely versatile and easy to use.
The JackClamp can be used in several ways. It can be used as a traditional clamp to clamp together multiple items for cutting, fastening, sanding and any situation requiring traditional clamps. It can also be used as a spreader, jack or hoist.
Quality Construction
I was very impressed with the quality and durability of the JackClamp. It’s quite obvious the minute you pick up the jacks as they are quite heavy and very stiff. Many of the jacks on the market today are fairly light and flexible but not the JackClamp.
Clamping Force
The JackClamp has really great clamping force that’s easy to apply with the grip handles. Once I clamped down a piece of wood on my steel table saw I wasn’t able to pry it loose. The effective clamping force is likely a result of the stiff bars and quality construction.
2nd Set Of Hands
One of the features that really caught my eye was using the JackClamp as a temporary support while installing upper kitchen cabinets. As you can see in the photo I positioned the JackClamp on the kitchen counter and used to to apply support to the front edge of an upper kitchen cabinet. This just shows how versatile the JackClamp can be.
Overall Thoughts
I must say I have a huge collection of bar clamps and I thought these clamps would just be one more of the same thing I already own. Boy was I wrong! As I said these are very well built clamps with some really cool features that allow you to clamp, lift and hoist in several different configurations. I think these are a great clamp to have in your shop and I also think you’ll see these in many shops to come!
Where To Buy JackClamp
If you’re interested in owning the new JackClamp then you can buy them directly from Lowell Thomas Tool, Inc. or from Amazon.
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This can be useful in many projects. My husband is in the preocess of building a small greenhouse. Im sure this could help!
Good tool, thanks for the chance to win it.
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I am currently doing side jobs of building wooden swingsets. This would definitly come in handy when I’m putting the frames together.
I wonder if this could be used to clamp chairs which need rungs re-glued!
We would use it to in building a shelf for my husband!
I would use this in our fence replacement project. sharonaquilino(at)hotmail(dot)com
My sweetie is always making something (usually a surprise for me!).
The last was a bookcase for my birthday! I don’t know what he’s up to now but he was talking about needing new clamps and this one sounds wonderful!
My husband is passionate about woodworking and he would use this on many of his projects.
I would use it on our deck project we are doing at the back of our house.
Thanks for the great giveaway, this would have come in handy dozens of times over the last 18 months… and probably dozens more in the next 18. My honeydo list never gets any shorter, no matter how many things I check off!
Nice — lends itself well to “thinking outside the box”, re using it as an adjustable prop in addition to all the slightly-more-obvious clamping tasks that come to mind. Also like the implied sturdy construction, the inherent stiffness of the double-bar approach. I have some shelving that needs to be re-attached to the wall with stronger bonds than the original installation used, and I would use this as a “prop” first.
my husband would love to win this
my hub is going to be building new entry way steps im sure he could use this :)
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Well I’m the engineer/fixer in the family even though female the jack clamp would be perfect in assistance.
This would come in handy for me since I build a lot of custom furniture.
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If I won these, I’d give them to hubby. Among his many projects in our 89 year old house, I’m willing to bet they’d come in handy for building kitchen cabinets.
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I would use the JackClamp for building furniture.
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My husband could use this on the gazebo he is building. He is also going to build one for my son’s house.
Building some kids rocking chairs :)
We are clumping clumsily onward / diy and clamps help hold the projects together.
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I just got my clamps and am in woodworkers heaven.I do not see how I got by without this great tool. I keep discovering new ways to use the JackClamp and am amazed every time I use it.I build furniture and would love to have a couple of these with a bar 60″ long.I will never buy another clamp except the JackClamp.Showed it to a national store and he is very interested in carry them in all their stores……Kingman AZ