Rather than purchasing a number of band clamps or big hose clamps for assembling segmented rings for the bowls I turn, I use 1⁄8-in.-dia. cord, twisted tight with a 1⁄4-in. dowel. I use a diamond-braid cord with a 40-lb. working load, available at home centers. The cord and dowels are cheap, so I can clamp an entire series of rings at once.
— Al Weinzapfel, Evansville, Ind.
From FWW #267
Drawings by Dan Thornton
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This is an old nautical technique called a spanish windlass when rope tightened with a bar twisted around and lashed to itself was the natural way before snazzy clamps were invented.
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