C-clamp

This article is about the clamp used to hold together two workpieces. For clamps used to secure stage lighting instruments, see C-clamp (stagecraft). For the Chicago band, see C-Clamp (band).

A C-clamp or G-clamp or G-cramp is a type of clamp device typically used to hold a wood or metal workpiece, and often used in, but are not limited to, carpentry and welding. Often believed that these clamps are called "C" clamps because of their C-shaped frame, or also often called C-clamps or G-clamps[1] because including the screw part, they are shaped like an uppercase letter G. However, in fact, they were originally called a carriage maker's clamp, or Carriage Clamp.

An open G-clamp
  1. ^ http://www.technologystudent.com/equip1/cramp1.htm, Information on G-clamps.