Hey. Good clamps are pretty expensive.
This is $140 worth in 4 clamps. And I got them at Lowe's.... Irwin makes decent stuff in my experience. But not crazy expensive.
I'm going to have to make a handful of guitars so I can cost average these investments in tools. Otherwise, at the end of this little project, I'm going to have a $2500 guitar that plays like a $25 guitar.
I should go back and make a ledger of all guitar related expenses. Yeah, I'll do that. Anyway, this is a very exciting picture of clamped wood :

I actually really like the big ones. They have those chunky block ends which are perfect for this application. They even have stops at the end of the bars that double as feet when laid out like I have them.
I've got a bit of a low corner, which may be a huge problem, or may not make any difference at all. Seems to me that the latter is more probable.