Tom Sweeney
05-07-2003, 9:45 PM
OK I'm doing a glue up for a cutting board - Yeah the same one.
Anyway I have a section where I have 3" cherry & maple pieces glued together end to end.
I miscalculated by a hair when dimenshioning the wood & the cherry came out a little thicker, which would not work at all for the glue up. I didn't realize it till I already cut the pieces to 3" long. My solution is to glue them all together & then plane them out to the same thickness. The actual thickness is not critical - just that the cherry & maple peices are equal. then I will finish gluing it to the board.
I drilled holes & inserted dowels & then end glued the pieces together. The next problem is that the dowel holes aren't exactly straight - I don't have a running drill press yet. so the pieces are sort of cocked to each other like the picture I'm attaching. I dry fitted everything together then clamped it all together & used cauls on all four sides to force the wood to be more even. I left it that way for a few days & then just glued it up tonight. I know the wood & dowels will have some memory & try to pull upart but since the pieces are so small & I used the dowels & titebond II glue do you think it will hold?
Man that was a long question - sorry. here is the very hastely drawn pic of what I am talking about next to what the board looks like to give you an idea of what I mean.<br>
<img src="http://www.realtymarketing.com/images/boardGlueup2.gif" align="left">
<img src="http://www.realtymarketing.com/images/cuttingboard.jpg"><br><br>
Anyway I have a section where I have 3" cherry & maple pieces glued together end to end.
I miscalculated by a hair when dimenshioning the wood & the cherry came out a little thicker, which would not work at all for the glue up. I didn't realize it till I already cut the pieces to 3" long. My solution is to glue them all together & then plane them out to the same thickness. The actual thickness is not critical - just that the cherry & maple peices are equal. then I will finish gluing it to the board.
I drilled holes & inserted dowels & then end glued the pieces together. The next problem is that the dowel holes aren't exactly straight - I don't have a running drill press yet. so the pieces are sort of cocked to each other like the picture I'm attaching. I dry fitted everything together then clamped it all together & used cauls on all four sides to force the wood to be more even. I left it that way for a few days & then just glued it up tonight. I know the wood & dowels will have some memory & try to pull upart but since the pieces are so small & I used the dowels & titebond II glue do you think it will hold?
Man that was a long question - sorry. here is the very hastely drawn pic of what I am talking about next to what the board looks like to give you an idea of what I mean.<br>
<img src="http://www.realtymarketing.com/images/boardGlueup2.gif" align="left">
<img src="http://www.realtymarketing.com/images/cuttingboard.jpg"><br><br>