Festool quick clamps

[bonesbr549]

I needed some clamps for the mft and went to woodcraft to pick up a couple of the regular clams and noticed the quick clamps.  I struggled because you pay twice as much for the quick clamps.  I bought two and I have to admit they are sweet.  They are made extremely well kinda reminds me of little bessy's.  Anyway imo they are worth the money. 

 

[jonny round boy]

This is based on nothing more than pure guesswork, but based on the similarity of both the quick-clamps and the standard clamps to Bessey's, I strongly suspect that both are made by Bessey for Festool.

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

Pretty sure they are.

 

[Frank-Jan]

...   I struggled because you pay twice as much for the quick clamps.  ...

The price difference with the regular clamps made me postpone the purchase more than a few times (at the time  it was 4x the price (the price for the regular clamps is for 2 of them).

I did end up getting two of them and like them a lot. However, in some cases prefer other clamps, because the swiveling movement of the clamping mechanism sometimes causes the pieces being clamped to shift a bit and making allignment difficult.

 

[honeydoman]

I have sets of both, and yes the quicks are very good for a lot of uses and the screw downs are good to have for other applications.  I , if you have bucks buy sets of both... that s the way I started with the bessy clamps bought 2 of the 32" and now I have 24 of them (different lengths) !