Woodworking: 97 Tips and Tricks for Workshop design and how to use must have woodworking tools for beginners by Karl Winkler & Karl Winkler

Author:Karl Winkler & Karl Winkler [Winkler, Karl]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-09-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23 Clamping Tips and Tricks

Most woodworking professionals have only the imprecise idea of how much clamping force to put on when gluing boards. Even those obsessives who depend on on dial calipers and feeler gauges when cutting and planing wood frequently judge clamping pressure simply by the amount of glue that squashes out. The consequences are occasional joint let-downs and awkward gaps between boards on the ends of tabletops. Throughout my career in wood technology I’ve done technical studies of glue joints using diverse types of glue, different clamping pressures, different grain orientations and different species of wood. I’ll take up you’re using yellow (polyvinyl acetate—PVA) glue and I’ll try to answer the following questions:

What is the optimum force when clamping soft and hard woods?

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