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I haven't seen it mentioned here, but is the new Festool Vacuum Clamp system available in the US? It's a bit more expensive than a few cam clamps and fibreglass rods so I think I'll have to pass!

See it here: Festool Vaccum clamp

Colin

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Colin, I haven't seen it available over here. That's ridiculously expensive, just like all their other stuff. Not that some of it isn't great stuff, but a lot of it just isn't worth it.

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Mike

"The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh." The Stranger

Holy Cow!

Talk about paying for a name.

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Waddy

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Seems that Festool is intern becoming the vacuum people.....

I think they're going for that 'doesn't know how it works and thinks you get what you pay for' crowd. Vacuum clamps and pumps are dirt-simple, commodity hardware.

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Bob Garrish
Former Canonized Purveyor of Fine CNC Luthier Services

For anyone interested in adding vacuum to their shop, Charles Fox wrote a great article in issue #88 of the GAL publication on the subject. I took his class earlier this year and came home and duplicated his methods for under $200 - pump and all. I can firmly hold a guitar body vertically for working on the sides or horizontally for working on the top or back and any additional fixtures are easy to make when the need arises.

Chuck

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