Features

• Patented profile rail for total control
• Non-slip locking device for steadfast clamping
• I-beam design for reduced flexing and bending
• Zinc finished drawn rail for durability
• Non-marring pads for a flawless workpiece

Product Description

This unique ball and socket system allows the application of direct pressure on nearly any irregular angle. The ES Set consists of (2) non-slip ball pieces and (2) socket pieces designed to work with the Bessey® TGK series. ... Read more

Features

• Clamping block & adapter - glue resistant reinforced fiberglass material.
• Clamping block with anti-slip, non-marring inlaid piece to protect delicate surfaces

Features

• Non marring pads
• Patented profile rail
• Non-slip locking device
• 1 beam design
• Zinc finished drawn rail

Product Description

K-Body/Block Set (2-24", 2-40" and 4 Blocks) ... Read more

Features

• One-year warranty
• Patented profile rail
• Nonslip locking device
• Zinc-finished drawn rail
• Nonmarring pads

Reviews (3)

For regular duty clamping, these can't be beat
The nice thing about the Bessey Tradesmen's, is that they are heavier duty than the competition, in the medium duty class, and you don't have to take out a second mortgage to afford a set of them. The locking mechanism works without any hassles, and the grip is strong. All in all a nice piece of equipment. A major competitor sells this model for less money, but it is also a lighter weight clamp. I like them all. Bessey makes great stuff, you can't go wrong with these. They are a great general purpose clamp. Highly recommended.

Its an extremely well designed tool.
I own several of these Bessey clamps in various lengths, and I think the world of them. I have never experienced the bar "bowing" like other clamp bars tend to do. With a reasonable pricetag, I think these are some of the better all-around clamps on the market.

A great clamp for around the house projects.
This clamp is the perfect little tool to have around your house when you're building or mending small drawers or chairs. This is not a heavy duty piece, but you can manually tighten it to the point where it damages your object. Its important to remember that it doesnt have cushions and you need to use some kind of wooden or hard rubber spacer to protect the surface of your object.

This clamp is the kind of tool that once you have it you'll wonder why you didnt buy one sooner. I have them in several different lengths and would be lost without them. ... Read more

Features

• Approx. Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Permits curved and circular cuts, unaffected by chips; leaves clean, burr-free cut edges
• For all kinds of sheet metal up to 1.2 mm gauge, aluminum, copper, plastics, printed circuit boards up to 2.0 mm
• Spring-action, self-opening nickel plated handles are plastic coated
• Length: 10 1/4"; cutting edge: 1 5/16"

Features

• Non marring pads
• Patented profile rail
• Non-slip locking device
• 1 beam design
• Zinc finished drawn rail

Reviews (3)

Bessey wins in medium duty as well
The nice thing about the Bessey Tradesmen's is that they are heavier duty than the competition, in the medium duty class, and you don't have to take out a second mortgage to afford a set of them. The locking mechanism works without any hassles, and the grip is strong. All in all a nice piece of equipment. A major competitor sells this model for less money, but it is also a lighter weight clamp. I like them all. Bessey makes great stuff, you can't go wrong with these. They are a great general-purpose clamp. Highly recommended.

Where was these clamps 8 years ago?
The clamps are made the right way stiff and sturdy. They are better than other clamps similar to this stile, stay away form the cheap clamps. I have the 6", 12", 18", 24", 30" clamps and I know I will buy some more, which I just ordered 6 more of the TGJ2.506 2 ½" x 6, little bit pricey, but WELL WORTH THE MONEY.

Bessey Bar Clamps Beat All
I have recently puchased several sizes of the Tradesman clamps offered by Bessey. I am delighted with their performance. The Bessey clamp is far superior to other bar clamp offerings from suppliers such as Jorgensen. The Bessey clamps have a much sturdier bar and larger clamp screw with ACME threads. They also come with protective plastic pads that do not marr the project. Jorgensen on the other hand requires you to purchase protective pads seperately and they tend to leave an oily mark. The Bessey clamps are simple to operate and the serated edge and set screw system work flawlessly. By far the most clamp for the money. ... Read more

Product Description

Used with Bessey® Tradesmen clamps and other bar clamps, these edge clamps can be mounted anywhere on the bar to provide added clamping power. ... Read more

Features

• Non marring pads
• Patented profile rail
• Non-slip locking device
• 1 beam design
• Zinc finished drawn rail

Reviews (3)

The Clamp of Choice
In my day to day tasks this clamp is the first thing I grab. Quick, strong, positive. I have some of those orange branded clamps and some days they are all applied (yes some days one can never can have enough), but the orange model has more give or deflection. Now that I have more than one model I can quickly feel the diffenrence. I like the larger diameter handles too. (The orange models have been modified with an epoxied on expander - feel no need for this with bessy.) I was given a thank-you gift of 4 new bessy 4"x15" that are also excellent. I'm a Bessy convert - I love'm.

Bessey wins in medium duty as well
The nice thing about the Bessey Tradesmen's is that they are heavier duty than the competition, in the medium duty class, and you don't have to take out a second mortgage to afford a set of them. The locking mechanism works without any hassles, and the grip is strong. All in all a nice piece of equipment. A major competitor sells this model for less money, but it is also a lighter weight clamp. I like them all. Bessey makes great stuff, you can't go wrong with these. They are a great general-purpose clamp. Highly recommended.

Every home should have at least two of these.
This clamp is the perfect little tool to have around your house when you're building or mending small drawers or chairs. This is not a heavy duty piece, but you can manually tighten it to the point where it damages your object. Its important to remember that it doesnt have cushions and you need to use some kind of wooden or hard rubber spacer to protect the surface of your object. ... Read more

Features

• Nuplaglas handle reduces vibration
• Specially designed urethane head
• Feet won't mar/damage material surfaces
• Outlasts conventional mallets 4 to 1
• Cush-N-Grip provides non-slip comfort

Product Description

Over 11 square inches of jaw surface; clamps flat, round or odd shapes; jaws encased in glue-resistant, non-marring polyamid; profiled rail minimizes flexing and bending; Acme thread for smooth action and long life; jaws reverse for use as a spreader; 550 pounds pressure, 12-inch opening. ... Read more

Features

• Jaws reverse for use as a spreader
• Clamps round or odd shapes
• Jaws encased in glue resistant, non-marring polyamid
• Profiled rail minimizes flexing and bending
• 550 pounds pressure

Reviews (2)

Super Clamp -- Bessey Quality at a Lower-than-K-Body Price!

First of all, I agree with everything the other reviewer said except for the idea that these clamps might not stand up in use by a professional cabinet shop.Used properly, the durability of these clamps should be as good as a K-Body.Of course, if you have an application where you're trying to squeeze warped panels together, you might want to use the K-Body style clamps, but in normal applications, these clamps are more than adequate.Remember that clamping too tightly will compromise the glue joint anyway (by squeezing out too much glue).

These clamps are first rate in fit and finish -- typical Bessey quality, and are lighter and easier to handle than the K-Body clamps.I use mine in nearly every project, and I highly recommend them.Try them!You won't be disappointed!

Excellent clamps with few drawbacks
I recenlty ordered a pair of these clamps, and let me say that they are excellent. Even clamping pressure, large jaws, and a neat little plastic "foot" at the end that flips down to hold the clamp securly on a flat surface. While not as expensive, strong or heavy as bessey's famous "k-body" clamps, these will do an excellent job as hold-down clamps for securing workpeices to benches while routing, sanding, cutting bisucits and the like. While most will say that a quick grip is fine for this, I would reply that for a few dollars more, you get so much more. These work excellent as assembly clamps, too. There glue-resistant surface and high pressure makes them great for truing doors, and glue-ups of small panels. While these would most likely not cut it for a professional woodwooker or cabinet maker, for the home shop owner, they are great deals for the price. ... Read more

Features

• Non marring pads
• Patented profile rail
• Non-slip locking device
• 1 beam design
• Zinc finished drawn rail

Reviews (4)

Bessey wins in medium duty as well
The nice thing about the Bessey Tradesmen's is that they are heavier duty than the competition, in the medium duty class, and you don't have to take out a second mortgage to afford a set of them. The locking mechanism works without any hassles, and the grip is strong. All in all a nice piece of equipment. A major competitor sells this model for less money, but it is also a lighter weight clamp. I like them all. Bessey makes great stuff, you can't go wrong with these. They are a great general-purpose clamp. Highly recommended.

Inspect it before you buy
The clamp looks great until you start look closer at it. If you look at the lower jaw you will notice that the hole for the hand screw is usually not drilled staight or in the center. When the screw is not straight it can cause the work to misalign as you tighten it or if it's not drilled in the center, can weaken the clamp. I still like the clamps but when I buy them I go to the store and inspect each one I buy. I don't mind spending extra for quality tools but I think Bessey can do better than this.

Not a bad Intermediate Clamp
This is a pretty decent clamp. If you need a real clamp though go with a K-body or a JORGENSEN Cabinet Master Clamp.

Works great when used with face frame clamps.

Great clamps!
You can never have enough clamps! While these may not be as good as the Bessey K-Body clamps they do work really well for most applications. Adjusting the clamp is really easy to do and alot more efficient then most bar clamps. ... Read more

Features

• Makes clamping easy
• Use on both wood and metal
• Quick one-hand action
• Non-marring, non-slip pads
• Quick one handed release

Reviews (7)

The design on paper sounds like a dream come true
I bought two of these, and when I purchased them, I thought what a great idea. I have the Quick Grips, and like the ease of use. When I saw that these took the quick grip principle and took it a step farther, with a screw vise, I jumped at buying them. I saw Norm Abrams on TV using the Bessey Super Grip clamp style, and then discovered these Powergrips. It seemed to me the Powergrips would be a better idea, than having to squeeze, adjust, and squeeze adjust, the way you do with vice grips, and the way the super grip Besseys work. I saw in an eariler taped show, that Norm felt the same way, he used the Powergrips also. He now uses the Super Grips, and I am sorry I didn't buy those instead.
Ok so onto the clamp. It has plenty of torque, but unfortunately, the little knob on the back of the clamp, which is designed to release the clamp for readjusting, turns out to be a little bear to work. It takes a decent amount of finagiling to get it to work. It is not that the button does not work, it is more of a feeling that the whole procedure is hanging up, due in part to the criticalness of the alignment of the shaft creating a binding. Not something you want to do, when you anticipated a quick grip release. Additionally, as others have mentioned, you have to be careful to leave a certain amount of thread distance open, so that when you want to release the clamp, you can. It is easy to simply pump up the quick grip feature, up to the edge of your work, then finish the job with the screw clamp. If you have that screw device, bottomed out, and you use it as a quick grip, their is no way to get that dysfunctional in the first place, release knob to let go. This clamp depends on unscrewing the clamp to release it. No problem as long as you remember to leave some thread space, and not bottom it out. It is a bad enough problem that you would have to hacksaw the clamp apart if you ever tightened it up that way. Logically, you could be prone to do that. It is natural, once you are accustomed to quick grips, that you squeeze the handle repeatedly until you tighten it up against your work surface. If you don't set the screw tightener with enough thread to do the release job, your screwed. The problem gets worse, when you realize that each time you release the clamp by unscrewing it, your are running it closer, and closer to the no thread situation. So you have to kind of be afraid of the clamp, and continually check to be sure you have not unthreaded it all the way.
I, like Norm Abrams, find the Supergrips to be more useful, for the above reasons. All in all, if the release knob was easier to use, and it was made in such a way, so that when tightened, the release knob would actually release the entire clamp, then it would be a winning situation.
My hat is off to Bessey for their entire clamping tool line, but they need to upgrade this design with a better release mechanism. Somewhere in the future, a pair of Supergrips will be in the making for me. I still use these powergrips, and do kind of like them, albeit I have to break my concentration while using them to make sure of not getting trapped without thread space, and not being able to use them with one hand, except to squeeze them together. That release knob on the back takes two hands to use. One on the clamps, and a separate one to work the knob area.
Enough said, don't let the concept fool you. Hope this helps.

Great Tool!
After reading some of the other reviews, I realized how clueless some people are in using tools. This clamp is a very specialized tool which does one thing better than any other clamp I've seen. It is meant for those occassions where you are holding something to be clamped in one hand and therefore only have your other hand to operate the clamp. The beauty of this clamp is that you use the squeeze lever to cinch the clamp securely to the items being clamped and then use the traditional screw mechanism to really tighten whatever it is your clamping. Contrary to another review, the lever is only meant to get the clamp tight enough to then use the screw mechanism where you get the full power of a traditional clamp. And yes, you do have to leave a few threads on the screw mechanism when you clamp anything so you can back the screw away from the clamped objects and then quick release. The first time you don't do that you'll see the problem you've created for yourself.
In summary, this is an exceptionally good specialized tool for one hand clamping jobs for use by "thinking" people

Overpriced, overdesigned
I love tools and that together with the look and feel of these and the fact that I spent so much should have guaranteed a positive review. Unfortunately, in actual use these are a pain. They are difficult to use one-handed. When adjusting you need to release with one hand while holding square to slide the other. When pumping them closed they don't really get that tight so you'll end out switching to the screw adjustment. I might forgive that but you also have to be careful to leave sufficient thread to release since unscrewing is the only release mechanism.

So, save your $$ and get the Bessey tradesman clamps. Just slip it into position while putting it on, and twist it tight. You can get several Tradesmen for the price of one Powergrip.

Not Quite as Advertised, But It Is Useful
I received one of these for Christmas and have used it some over the past two weeks. I quickly discovered, as did toolpig, that the clamp is difficult to release if you do not leave about 1/4" or more of thread showing on the handscrew before "pumping" it on tight. The combination of pumping it tight and then adding a half turn of screw makes it virtually immovable. The "one hand release" is something I haven't figured out yet. You MUST loosen the screw before you can release the thumb button to slide the body on the bar. It is a good clamp with great clamping pressure, but for the price, I expected much smoother operation. If you can live with the shortcomings outlined here and need more clamping pressure than "Quickgrip" clamps provide, get it.

Steroids will kill you eventually
I wrote in an earlier review that I would be buying more of these as I could afford them. Well I haven't and I won't be. Forty bucks for a clamp is not all that bad but I'm not as happy with them as I once was. One of my clamps completely stopped working. We all have to put up with lemons from time to time. I understand that. I find these clamps annoying. None of my guys will even use them anymore. It is so easy to get yourself in a bind where they won't release for anything. You have to plan ahead when you clamp with these bad boys. You have to leave yourself plenty of play in the threads to be able to back the screw off before you tighten with the one handed lever. Sound complicated ? It beats destroying your work to get the blasted thing off ! I like the regular tradesman clamps better for many reasons. ... Read more

Product Description

Angle Clips for Band Clamps. ... Read more

Features

• 3" capacity
• Sliding arm design infinitely adjustable up to 4"
• Does the work of 1", 2", 3" & 4" standard spring clamps
• Ergonomic Grips
• Soft pads for damage free clamping

Product Description

Designed for light-duty, these bar clamps are ideal for gluing and general purpose clamping. 2" throat & 3" throat. ... Read more

Features

• Lifetime warranty against defects and workmanship
• Replaces c-clamps
• Ergonomic wood grip handle
• Lighter duty clamp for delicate projects
• Protective cap prevents damage to material

Product Description

Patented profiled rails with serrated edges prevent buckling and slipping. And the ergonomically designed wooden handles offer positive clamping pressure. ... Read more

Features

• Non marring pads
• Patented profile rail
• Non-slip locking device
• 1 beam design
• Zinc finished drawn rail

Reviews (2)

Very good light duty bar clamp
If you are going to use this for clamping with any significant force, get a heavier clamp. Working with picture frames and similar light work, or in reduced lengths, this clamp will work well for you. When I stretch it out to ~15 inches and apply enough force to push 2 x 4's together on a biscuit, it flexes by bowing the I-beam in a semi-circular arc. This throws the jaws out of alignment and applies and off center force that causes the joints flex out of square.

In summary, if you are doing light work, this clamp is a great value. If you need moderate clamping force, save your money and buy a more appropriate clamp that won't flex on you.

An essential home craftsman's clamp.
This clamp is the perfect little tool to have around your house when you're building or mending small drawers or chairs. This is not a heavy duty piece, but you can manually tighten it to the point where it damages your object. Its important to remember that it doesnt have cushions and you need to use some kind of wooden or hard rubber spacer to protect the surface of your object. ... Read more

Product Description

Excellent for cabinetmaking, furniture assembly and framing, these clamps are designed to consistently hold and secure stock at a 90° angle. Clamps uneven thicknesses. ... Read more

Features

• Non marring pads
• Patented profile rail
• Non-slip locking device
• 1 beam design
• Zinc finished drawn rail