What is an HF clamp? Can you provide a URL?

While I'm here, anybody like the Bessey Supergrip? Seems expensive but
very useful.

Bessey's "Jig and Fixture clamp" and their "Legendary sliding arm
clamp" under the industrial and welding clamps section seem useful to
woodworkers, too.

http://www.americanclamping.com/prod...tal/SQ_STB.php

Even their c-clamps seem to be a notch above the competition.

What say y'all?

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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:02:23 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

I'm still ****ed that FWW didn't include HF clamps in their
testing. There must be 30% of us (if not more) here on the
Wreck who use 'em.

they only tested 48" clamps. the HF ones only go up to 36". however,
they missed bessey tradesman, a serious omission. (hmm, maybe
tradesmans only go to 40". shoulda altered the test. tradesman clamps
are too good a contender to ignore.)

they also neglected to comment on a design element that to me is a
major factor in the decision of what clamps to buy- that on all but
what they called "parallel jaw" bar clamps (the cabinet master type)
the gross and fine adjustments are at opposite ends of the clamp. to
compound the aggravation, the sliding head on bar clamps like to
rotate around the pipe out of alignment with the screw head. (can you
tell I'm not a big fan of pipe clamps?)

Bridger