Scrape or Plane after initial glue up

[Glenn Samuels]

I've glued up 2 panels 24 x 36 of African Mahogany. I used Hide glue and was able to clean one side but the reverse side has glue squeeze. Will I damage my new LV BU planer to clean the glue or should I go to a scraper?

[Brian Ashton]

I just use a sharp paint scraper - preferably while the glue is still relatively soft.

[David Weaver]

Get most of it off with a scraper or a chisel then plane it clean. The plane won't mind it much, but there's no reason to gunk up the sole slowly shaving thin bits of glue off of the boards.

[Jim Koepke]

This is only one of the reasons some beater tools are in my shop. They can do jobs like this without worries. Most of the time a beater chisel is used if there is heavy squeeze out. It is then followed by one of my beater planes.

jtk

[Prashun Patel]

This is IMHO a great reason to get a $5 block plane on ebay. I prefer a beater plane to a beater chisel, because you can be a little rougher with it with relatively less fear of tear out.

[glenn bradley]

I'm in the scraper camp. Once the glue is off the exposed surface, you can plane, sand, scrape or do whatever your final preparation is before finishing.

[Jim Koepke]

This is IMHO a great reason to get a $5 block plane on ebay. I prefer a beater plane to a beater chisel, because you can be a little rougher with it with relatively less fear of tear out.

My statement should have been a bit more clarified. If the squeeze out is rather light, then a plane is fine. My chisels come out when there is good size blobs of squeeze out or if working into a corner.

jtk

[Bobby O'Neal]

I'm with Prashun on this one. With minimal or maximum squeeze out I am always comfortable attacking it with a block plane that I don't have a lot of sentiment with.

[Chris Fournier]

I'd never choose the plane or chisel for this task, I save them for more important and worthy efforts. A paint or card scraper is cheaper, faster to use and easier to sharpen.

[Jeff Heath]

My small chisel plane excels at this very task. If you don't want to buy one, you can easily make a block of wood that will hold a chisel at the correct angle to be efficient. One swipe and done.

Jeff

[Trevor Walsh]

For me it depends on the wood, you won't hurt the tools, but I'd rather potentially nick a scraper that sharpens up in a second with a file rather than a plane that it honed perfect. If I have squeeze out it always gets the heavy scraper first.

[Harold Burrell]

I use one of these:

http://www.reddevil.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=827

It actually is quite a beast when it comes to removing glue.

[Bill Fleming]

I use one of these from Lee Valley, have had it for some time and love it....

http://www.leevalley.com/US/Wood/page.aspx?p=32664&cat=1,41182

[Matthew N. Masail]

I say get a 5$ block plane anyway.. it's great to have and you get to buy a new tool! :D

I use mine also on MDF and stuff like that.

[Harold Burrell]

I use one of these from Lee Valley, have had it for some time and love it....

http://www.leevalley.com/US/Wood/page.aspx?p=32664&cat=1,41182

oooh...I'm thinking that it wouldn't be all that hard to make one of them...

[Sam Babbage]

At a shop I worked at forr five years we had an old beater #4 dedicated to this purpose, don't think it was ever sharpened...

A paint or card is great if the glue is still soft, but doesn't work if it has gone off, like in the exceedingly common occurrence of getting a panel glued up late so it can be worked the next day.