What ideas do you have to help me with this glue up?

Toss the band clamp and use cabinet clamps instead. If needed, put wax paper on top/bottom and use cauls to clamp in plane. But, if the edges are square, it shouldn't want to pull out of plane anyway.

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When you say "cabinet clamps" are you referring to something like my Bessey K body clamps? The thing I like about the band clamp concept is that you get nearly simultaneous pressure in the horizontal and vertical directions to prevent the mitered edges from sliding. This isn't a huge tabletop as you saw from my original posting so I won't have a lot of room for clamps though there is room for two on the horizontal size and two on the vertical side.

Dick Snyder wrote: ...

Yes. No larger than it is, two on each side will be all you need.

For alignment, the biscuits should put everything pretty much in place and keep it close; if the joints are accurate the pressure from the opposing sides will bring the four corners together as they are brought together gradually. Until completely tight, a judicious mallet tap should be all the persuasion required to make a last "tweak" if needed.

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Yep. That worked fine. Thanks.

Dick

Dick Snyder wrote: ...

Great--glad to hear it.

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