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MFS, Multi-Routing Template System, Page Twelve.
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Using the MFS as a clamping aid.
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Using the MFS for squaring glue ups is one more great way to eliminate more fixtures form the shop. The MFT by itself is very useful to for clamping, add the MFS profiles and your clamping options are greatly increased. With the MFS flexibility there is no need to build your own wooden squaring jigs and fixtures to fit different projects.
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The MFS profiles offer a lot of options for different configurations, the one shown here what I use most often for clamping face frames. Once the profiles are clamped to the MFT they provide a sturdy squaring fixture.
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Clamps can be added almost any place needed to square the frame.
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Both the MFS 400 and 700 sets were used in the configuration shown above. A much simpler version for smaller projects can be made from the MFS 400 set. The profiles are clamped against the MFT fence, making a perfect right angle clamping jig, as seen in this picture.
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Squaring is not the only way to use the MFS to aid in clamping, I've used my profiles as cauls. With clamps from below the MFT the profiles can be clamped, pressing the stock down onto the bars of the parallel clamps, giving me flat glue ups.
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The profiles can be quickly put together to make a custom clamping jig and when the glue dries, take them apart for the next project.
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