How to "rough in" front end alignment after rebuild?

The cheap cutting board trick worked like a charm, so for $8 and a handful of grease, I'm sold on that idea.
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I also tried the string method for measuring toe, and it worked, but halfway into it I realized that since my rear tires are wider than my fronts, that the plane created by the string coming from the rears was inaccurate. In other words, the string coming from the rears was already at an angle since it had to come in to meet the thinner tires up front.
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If I set toe-in to 1/16"-1/8", the actual toe-in would've been much more with the string being like that, so I set it at 0 for now. I set camber to -.5 and I'll check caster when I can drive it to my shop and have more room to turn the wheels. It's very tight in my garage at the moment. All in all this was MUCH easier than I thought it was going to be, thanks to all the help given here. In fact, this was probably one of the easier tasks I've done.
You don’t move the string to contact the front tires. What I did is use fishing string and a couple of heavy jack stands a couple of feet past each tire. Move the front jack stand sideways until the measurement from front and rear sides of the rear wheel are the same. This establishes a straight line relative to the rear wheels. Now you can adjust the tie rod to bring the front wheel 1/2 the desired toe in. You check this by measuring from front and back of the front wheel to the string. Repeat on the other side.