On Feb 28, 15:47, Mike Weaver wrote: 

Joe Dolinar writes: 

 I have edge glued, but have never face glued stock.   This appears to be a pret
ty tricky task, considering that the boards are probably very slippery with glue
 on them.   For those who have tried this (or even if you didn't) are there any 
"tricks" for making this process easier (Mike W?)?  I just spread the glue evenl
y, and clamped it. I did have to keep an eye on things as I tightened the clamps
, but other than that, I didn't use any tricks. The sliding wasn't that bad with
 Excel (poly) glue. 

The worst joint had one side about 1/16" off, but I had made the boards large en
ough so that I had some leeway. After gluing, planing to size wasn't tough. I tr
immed to length after gluing. 

Maybe I just got lucky? 

I'm inclined to think so, or maybe you're just better than you give yourself cre
dit for...   :-)

I've just did this too.   Some thoughts:

1)   don't try to face join more than 2 pieces at once.   I did three,
and keeping the middle one in line is a bitch. 

2)   you need a mess o' clamps.   I used something like 8 clamps on
a 3 foot length, and it likely would have been better with more.

3)   use cauls to spread the clamping force.

4)   have some extra hands around to help with keeping everything
in line, holding the cauls in place, tightening the clamps, et al.

5)   allow something extra in the width department, so you can
fix it if things do come disaligned in clamping (gotta admit I got more than 1/1
6th offset - fortunately I was working with some leftovers, and I decided to glu
e 'em up as-is, rather than cutting close to width first.   Lucky choice   :-)

John

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