Glue up question?

[Mark Hollingsworth]

I am using biscuits to glue a vertical piece(3/4 oak ply) to a horizontal piece(3/4 oak ply) and I got the slots off and had to make them bigger to make things line up correctly. This made my slots quite sloppy. Using typical yellow wood glue will this fill the gaps and hold ok or is there something else I need to do to fill these gaps such as making a sawdust/glue mix to fill the slots completely and cut new ones?

[Neil Lamens]

Hi Mark:

Not exactly sure how oversize your are, but think to place a piece of veneer on one side or both sides depending on super-sized slot and glue as usual.

That should get you going again.............Neil

[Steve Schoene]

You do need the veneer shims. Yellow glue has no gap filling properties. For a gap filling glue you need epoxy, and that's too messy for such a situation.

[Doug Shepard]

Glue a biscuit into the slot and let it dry, then trim it off with a flush cut saw and chisel. Then recut the new slot. The new slot will probably be partially in the first biscuit, but it will work.

[Justin James]

Glue a biscuit into the slot and let it dry, then trim it off with a flush cut saw and chisel. Then recut the new slot. The new slot will probably be partially in the first biscuit, but it will work.

Not that I'm admitting anything, you understand, but I've seen this solution used a number of times both in the shop and while doing installations; it has always worked well.