woodworking weights

hackberry jake · January 25, 2015, 12:29:59 AM

I have had an old brass boat anchor for a long time that I use for weight in glue-ups and whatnot. Me and the wife went flea market shopping today and I picked up another neat weight. An old 50 lb scale calibration weight.
the boat anchor on the left and scale weight on right.

Bill Gaiche · January 25, 2015, 10:16:59 AM

All you need now is a boat. bg

hackberry jake · January 25, 2015, 10:00:48 PM

I have seen where a lot of woodworkers use bricks. I definately need to get me some bricks.

Just Me · January 26, 2015, 06:36:22 AM

I use sandbags, cheap and do not dent the wood. I have used the forks on my tractor on a couple of occasions as well when I really needed some weight.

WDH · January 26, 2015, 07:19:46 AM

Don't use sweetgum :D.

Dan_Shade · January 26, 2015, 07:28:19 AM

if you do glueups that require lots of down pressure, check out vacuum bags and also "go decks"

jueston · January 26, 2015, 08:06:34 AM

i saw a video on youtube where a guy made a box out of plywood and filled it with a few bricks, it was convenient since it had a handle, and you could vary the weight by adding or removing bricks, and the bottom was mostly flat so it could push down on a large area with even pressure.

hackberry jake · January 26, 2015, 11:00:42 PM

Quote from: Dan_Shade on January 26, 2015, 07:28:19 AM
if you do glueups that require lots of down pressure, check out vacuum bags and also "go decks"

I checked into these. Pretty neat, I never would have thought of that. And a word to the wise... They are "go-bar decks". A google search for "go decks" brings up a site called "godeckyourself"...

JohnM · January 28, 2015, 09:36:39 AM

Quote from: jueston on January 26, 2015, 08:06:34 AM
i saw a video on youtube where a guy made a box out of plywood and filled it with a few bricks, it was convenient since it had a handle

This thread just reminded me that I have 'tons' (not literally but seems that way) of old lead window weights sitting around and have never known what I would do with them. I think jueston gave me my answer.

Ironically I made a canoe anchor out of three of the weights a couple of years ago. :D