Project Assembly
Find out how to get the best results when gluing and assembling your project. These tips will get you through tricky clamp-ups, keep your project square and level, and help you account for wood movement.
Most of us apply linear thinking to project building: Cut parts to size, fasten them together, and then apply finish.
Gluing up and clamping a project proves just as critical as the machining and finishing stages, so take the time to get it right.
Before building projects with truly square corners you're proud of, you need the proper tools and setups.
A river runs through this stunning table made with natural-edge slabs and a pour of epoxy resin.
Cut 12 equal bevels the length of a cylinder with a simple tablesaw jig. This technique was used in WOOD issue 259 (March 2019) to bevel salt and pepper shakers.
I recently built a freestanding cabinet with carefully fitted doors and a base with legs. When I moved it from my shop to my living rooms, the doors bound. What’s going on?
I need to glue two beveled edges together, but have a hard time applying firm pressure on the joint to force the slightly wavy outer edges of the bevels to match.
I’ve built small projects with delicate, difficult-to-clamp parts. Is there some fast-setting adhesive that will allow me to use hand pressure to clamp until the glue “grabs?”
The glue-ups for the curved arms on my Morris chair seemed to go well, but when I took them out of the forms, there was springback. Should I be doing something differently?
Tip of the Day
May your clamp exceed your grasp
My hand strength is not what it used to be, making it hard to tighten clamps. So I applied the... read more