Chris Livingston
10-05-2006, 1:23 PM
I’ve been woodworking most of my life and I guess I have always taken the glue up stage for granted…until recently.
I’m making a two-tower entertainment center to surround my widescreen TV and the tower consist of several frames made by using loose tenons to connect 4/4 maple with panels in between (see attached pic). My problem is that as soon as I add the glue, I’m using the “slower” setting Titebond, and get all six rails with their panels glued I have a very hard time getting things square because the glue has already started to set by the time I brush on the last bit. This makes it really hard to shift things into the correct place, get both sides even with each other so they are not racked, and clamp it all up.
I screwed some aluminum angle to my work bench to help square things but they get out of square when I’m using the rubber mallet to knock things into place so I may have to use wood.
What slow setting glue do you guys use on complicated glue-ups? Is there some secret setup I don’t know about for squaring everything?
Any help you guys can provide would be most appreciated.
Chris
I’m making a two-tower entertainment center to surround my widescreen TV and the tower consist of several frames made by using loose tenons to connect 4/4 maple with panels in between (see attached pic). My problem is that as soon as I add the glue, I’m using the “slower” setting Titebond, and get all six rails with their panels glued I have a very hard time getting things square because the glue has already started to set by the time I brush on the last bit. This makes it really hard to shift things into the correct place, get both sides even with each other so they are not racked, and clamp it all up.
I screwed some aluminum angle to my work bench to help square things but they get out of square when I’m using the rubber mallet to knock things into place so I may have to use wood.
What slow setting glue do you guys use on complicated glue-ups? Is there some secret setup I don’t know about for squaring everything?
Any help you guys can provide would be most appreciated.
Chris