Here I am using a shoe lace and pen to form a tourniquet clamp. The pen is used to tighten up the tourniquet. The black clamp is used just to hold the pen so the tourniquet does not loosen up. If you look closer, the "bow" of my box is at the upper right and there is a small 60 degree equilateral triangle piece there that I used to measure the "squareness" (or 60 degree-ness) of the three corners. I also clamped a couple of larger boards to my work surface separated at a 60 degree angle, which is actually the first thing I did when I started this glue-up operation. I also used cut pieces of plastic bags to keep the glue from sticking my work piece to my work surfaces.
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