Vintage Clamp and Scrap Wood Business Card Holder

DIY Rustic Clamp and Wood Card Holder

8/24/2017

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We just finished a large clamp and cement book holder. We love the look but also wanted to try a tiny version with a wood base. It seemed like it would be the perfect place to hold our business cards!

Learn how to make a unique c-clamp and wood holder for small cards. This would be great in an office, home or workshop!

Materials and Tools:

Scrap Wood (we picked up this scrap at Woodcraft and it was labeled Ziricote)
Small C-Clamp
Danish Oil (Amazon)
WD-40 (Amazon)
Epoxy (Amazon)
Dremel (Amazon)
Dremel 194 High Speed Cutting Bit (Amazon)

Measure where you want to cut your scrap piece of wood. Make an outline of where the clamp will be placed. We really love the look of this two-tone piece of live edge wood.

Use a Dremel with wood attachment bit to remove the wood where the clamp will sit.

Our tiny vintage clamp was very rusty so we sprayed it down with some WD-40 and now it it turns easily.

Finish the wood by wiping on danish oil.

To keep the clamp in place, we mixed up a two-part epoxy. I added a little purple glow powered because I thought it would look cool, but you can't see it in the final piece.

Pour the epoxy around the clamp.

The epoxy really made a strong hold!

This would look great in an office...

...or in a workshop. Which is where it will live!

This turned out better than I expected! I was not too sure how the Dremel would do carving out the wood, but I was really surprised at how easy it was to handle and get a nice cut in the wood. It's not perfect, but this is a handmade DIY and I love it! We have run into many occasions when we need to hand out our business card from the garage, so this is the perfect place to keep them.

Please note: We are not sponsored by any of the companies/products that we used. These products were picked and bought by us.

FYI: We are not professionals, and we don’t claim to be. This is what we found worked for our project. Yours may need a little different approach. Safety first!

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