Flying or Floating stringing clamps are unmounted and use adjacent strings to hold themselves in place. Please help our PATTERN PROJECT by sending historical info, corrections, variants, new patterns, pattern naming corrections, etc to the email address patterns at this domain name.

Flying/Floating Clamp Section Index

• Flying Start Overivew detailed look at installing the first set of tensioned main strings
• Jay Cee Method
• YULitle Method
• Quick Starting Clamp Method
• Starting Pin Method
• Double Starting Clamp
• Flying Cross Start 4 knot (2 piece) cross starts
• ATW for Flying Clamps index and issues with finding adjacent strings to clamp onto

In use since the 1970's, flying/floating clamps are usually found on very inexpensive stringing machines.