Glue up

[Matt Murray]

Here is a question for all of you seasoned woodworkers. If my need is an 8/4 board and all is a lot of 4/4 boards can I glue the 4/4 to one another and end up with good results. I have a boatload of 4/4 walnut but need 8/4 for chairs. Thanks in advance. Matt

[James Phillips]

It will work, but the glue seam will show. You can mitigate this by matching color well

[Peter Quinn]

One option might be to split the 4/4 boards in half and fold them over on themselves, sort of the reverse of a book match, like closing a book rather than opening one. This may improve one glue line and gives you two pieces in the same color range. You can also tint the glue for a dark species like walnut, or buy some pretinted glue from tite bond for dark species.

[Ned Otter]

Matt -- this can also be done by cutting a groove in each 4/4 piece (after preparing stock for flatness), and then using a spline. Pat Warner (router specialist) uses this technique often.

The resulting thicker stock has awesome holding strength.