Vertical edge gluing
Edge gluing boards is always a challenge. Even if you’ve added biscuits to keep the pieces aligned, getting everything in place atop your bar clamps before the glue drips is stressful at best. I’ve found working vertically makes the process go a lot better. After cutting biscuit slots in all the pieces of my panel, I place the first piece in my bench vice before clamping two sets of opposing 1×2s near the ends. These create “tracks” for aligning the subsequent pieces. After applying glue and biscuits and stacking all the pieces for my panel, I transfer the assembly to the awaiting bar clamps. Finally, I remove the 1×2s to avoid accidentally gluing them in place.
—William Purcell,
Laurinburg, North Carolina
