Bart van Weperen's Page

Hi Bart

Hmm, I know how difficult it is to find long-reach clamps here. I searched all over the place, and in the end ordered mine from StewMac, but a few weeks ago I discovered a company that has good stuff. I bought some Klemmsia clamps from: http://shop.q-tools-ltd.eu It's an english company, but they have a branch in Germany, in Brackenheim. I think the sizes I bought should work for bridge clamping, I bought the sizes 200x150 and 200x195, the 15cm reach ones should work, the 19.5cm ones could be a bit long. Their prices are quite reasonable, the only fly in the ointment for you will be the shipping costs (€21.00 to Holland), in Germany it only costs €4.50! Their website is not very well designed, the easiest way to find the clamps is to select "Klemmsia" as manufacturer (Hersteller) Hope this has helped you a bit, let me know how you get on

Grahame

Hi Bart

Whatever happened to your search for clamps you asked me about a while ago? Did you have any success? just curious...Grahame

Looking forward to reading your answer, must be a long story .-)

Grahame

Bart,

I saw your thread about a Cuban Tres and I think I have some full size drawings I made several years ago.  I made the drawings based on an instrument owned by a client of mine who is a Cuban expatriot.  He apparently brought the instrument back with him.  I may be able to dig them out and make you a copy but I would have to mail you a paper copy as they are too big to scan and email.  If you are very interested, I can dig them out of my stacks of blue prints and look into having copies made.  I have never made one but I have repaired a couple.