I like your style RW, it's unique and entertaining, right up there with Per and Tinker.
Also like your taste in radio programs.
Clamps.
I've been boxing out a laminated ply beam running across my living room ceiling. I put 3/4 oak on the bottom of the beam, shimmed level and secured with pocket screws through the sides of the beam. Then I scribe and fit the side pieces to the ceiling and glue them to the lower piece of oak (there are spacer blocks at the top of the beam to keep the sides plumb).
The other day as I finished installing the clamps and my wife was looking on and there are so many clamps you can barely see the oak, I remarked that I might finally have enough clamps. She said, "and that's why we don't have...x,y,z"