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| Adam |  No winnerApril 8th, 2008 02:15 PM Glue squeeze out is a tricky situation. Some people try to clean-up the excess glue "fresh" with a moist cloth and end up thinning trace amounts of glue and sending it DEEP into the surrounding wood grain. Other people try to use small quantities of glue, avoiding much if any squeeze out, but often resulting in weaker glue-starved joints. Sanding is interesting, in that some of the glue can heat up slightly and be forced deeper into the wood grain. My method of attack has been to use various shaped hand scrapers to precisely remove any dry - excess glue. The squeeze out can be leveled quickly using a standard straight-bladed rectangular hand scraper. I then use a slightly moistened clean rag, run across the glued area, to quickly determine where any left over glue might be hiding. A curved blade scraper is gently applied to "spoon out" the affected areas. Then, a pad sander (hand or power) can be applied to smooth out the area and knock down the raised grain caused by the moist cloth glue detection step. |
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