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Rob Blaustein
04-02-2006, 5:09 PM
I'm wondering if I need to account for how much space glue takes up in a typical pocket hole joint. I'm about to cut some stretchers for a cabinet and will join them to panels that have already been finished. I plan to use Roo glue. So I'll have a joint that has the cut end of the plywood stretcher which might absorb some glue, butted to the finished panel which shouldn't absorb much. I want to make sure that the width of the carcass is the same on the top and bottom, so if the two glue lines took up a significant amount of space, I would just cut the stretchers that much shorter. Is this something I need to be concerned about?

Brian Hale
04-02-2006, 5:14 PM
You shouldn't need to worry about the glue line. In order for glue to join 2 pieces together they must make intimate contact, ie. no gap.

Brian :)