Handi Quilter Sixteen clamps

If you mean the things in this picture

they're a standard item in bargain-hardware-stuff shops in the UK. It usually costs a pound for a packet of them, how many to the packet depending on the size of the clamp (from 1 to 8). So you should be able to get them for half Handi Quilter's price.

I use a pair of them, clamped to a table with a few inches of bungee in between, to hold my greatbass recorder upright when I'm playing it in pubs (or rather, when I'm not playing it). And I use lots of different sizes as gluing clamps.

The swivelling plastic bits at the tips tend to fall off. They could be better made.

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