Jonathan conrad
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Up until recently, I always glued and screwed everything I built: tables, shelves, boxes, outdoor chairs, etc. But, recently I decided to build a nice little box...10"x10" for my 1 year old son to store the poplar 2" letter blocks I made him. So I bought some 4" wide oak boards (never used oak before, only pine because I'm cheap), glued the edges to make an 8" board, and built a beautiful box with no screws or nails. 1 week later, it started to fall a part, piece by piece. Here's my question...
1. How do you ensure a tight bond between the 2 pieces of wood? I've done this with pine plenty and never had problems, but this time I used a wood glue specifically for hard woods instead of the typical yellow wood glue. I also built the box in my garage (don't have a shop) and it was winter so the temp was probably around 45 degrees.
2. How do you get all the run-off glue OFF your piece of work before it dries so that you can stain the wood without seeing the glue spots? For this box, I didn't clamp the pieces together as tight as I usually do because I was more worried about keeping excess glue off the wood (probably a bad idea in hind sight)
1. How do you ensure a tight bond between the 2 pieces of wood? I've done this with pine plenty and never had problems, but this time I used a wood glue specifically for hard woods instead of the typical yellow wood glue. I also built the box in my garage (don't have a shop) and it was winter so the temp was probably around 45 degrees.
2. How do you get all the run-off glue OFF your piece of work before it dries so that you can stain the wood without seeing the glue spots? For this box, I didn't clamp the pieces together as tight as I usually do because I was more worried about keeping excess glue off the wood (probably a bad idea in hind sight)