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I was looking around Lee Valleys web site and saw something like this but they wanted over $20.00 for two if them, I am making a coffee table for myself at the moment that is going to be mechanical fastener free and they would have come in handy, not wanting to pay that price I naturally made my own! Having made them out of off cuts from the coffee table that would have been sent to a fire pit sometime this summer I got them for "free". Their not hard to make at all, very quick and easy. I just drew out a rough design and used my tape measure to get a radius on the clamping area, cut them out with the bandsaw, used the edge sander to smooth them a bit and there you have it! No more fiddling with multiple clamps at once to try and get your mitres glued up. I went with a radius rather than a 45 degree angle or something because I would like to be able to reuse these in future projects that may be a 22.5 or something different all together and I also found it gives me more choice where i put the clamp, if I need to move it one way or the other to help close up the mitre while in glue. Oh, and they work great!