The LOML has another project. An old, pine rolling taboret cabinet needs a larger top, and it needs to match other dark furniture. So I built a walnut new top for it, and need to attach that to the present pine cabinet top.
The new top is 36"L x 18"W. The old top is 20"L x 13"W, so there's not a huge difference in width of the two pieces, but they are two different wood species.
Can I just glue the new top onto the old one, or do I need to account for wood movement? Do two different wood species expand/contract at different rates (or different enough to cause cracking)? I've never tried gluing two different species of that size on top of each other.
The tougher job will be refinishing the present cabinet to match the new top once a dark stain is put on it, but that's a whole other issue.
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