I’ve been building a podium of oak plywood edge joined to oak strips to form the 90 deg. corners.
For the glue I’ve been using Old Brown Glue; mainly, because as I noticed a mistake I could heat it and rejoin the pieces once the error was corrected.
Today through a stupid error on my part, the completed case fell from the assembly table to the floor, and the edge joined assemblies split apart.
I’ve never had this happen before (joints coming apart, even when abused) when using yellow glues.
So my questions are;
- is OBG not suitable for plywood/solid wood joinery, or,
- perhaps the strength of OBG is not the same as yellow glue;
- make a lower assembly table. As it is, I’m too crowded in my little shop.
I refluxed everything back together, but the public wants to know ……