Gluing jig

[Papasombre]

Hi guys
In my last project, I had a lot of half hexagons to be glued in a definite pattern.
Here is difficult ($$) to buy a bag of elastic bands and their quality does not allow more than one use.
This is a boring job so, using some scrap I made a jig to glue the pieces in the right way.

Three pieces of agglomerated were laminated to make the basic jig. Using 4 screws I placed two fixed jaws, made out of MDF, on one face of the jig and a piece of HPL in between them. The pieces on the bottom of the jig were installed so as to have room for C clamps during the gluing process.
The C clamp holds into position a mobile jaw that I made from surplus material.
An oily rag passed over the HPL avoids the piece adhesion to the jig. I can make two assemblies in one operation and I can use the jig to glue rhombs also.
I think that other jaws can be made for a different polygon than hexagons.

[Herb Stoops]

Good show, Alex, It is so simple I think I could build one and a good way to use that scrap .
Herb

[roxanne562001]

Nice jig

[old55]

Nicely done Alex.

[honesttjohn]

Just think what that guy could do here with our material and tool availability. Hats off to you Alex!!