Of all woodworking techniques, clamping workpieces after gluing them is a constant source for (pleasant) stress and matching creativity.
I needed to clamp a whole series of pieces for my attic windows. The challenge was that the two pieces were cut at 45° angles, so there was no way to just clamp them and pray for the best. The pieces were joined by dowels, but this would apply also for biscuit joints or tenon-and-mortaise joints.
Before sawing out the parts, and after laying out the final form with a template, I fixed a block of wood on each side of the joint with screws in the scrap part of the workpiece. Rather than clamping the work piece, I clamped the two support blocks and pulled them strongly together.
