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View Poll Results: Is a glued dovetail joint stronger than an unglued dovetail?

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  1. #1
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    Default Is a Glued Dovetail Joint Stronger Than An Unglued Dovetail

    Well Kiddies,

    That's the question.

    What's your opinion.


    The answer is here

    http://www.amgron.clara.net/dovetail...ltestindex.htm
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    An interesting result. Of course, many of my dovetails are so slack that without glue the whole drawer would just fall apart.
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    Glued has to be stronger. pure physics.
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    This is one interesting read. I do agree with Ernknot that theoretically glue should be stronger. Does anyone have any idea why the results were what they were?
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    Interesting.

    But what they didn't test was repeditive loads. The unglued joins failed by deformation, the pins actually slid and compressed. That indicates there was movement before the actual failure. If that was repeated the join is going to work loose. The glued join failed suddenly when the faces of the pins sheared off, there would have been no movement before the failure.

    So yes I can believe their results, but they aren't a real life test. You dont hook a winch to your drawer fronts and see if you can pull them off. Instead they get pulled and pushed 20 times a day untill they possibly work loose.

    SO back in the real world I suspect the glued joints will actually last longer in service.

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    Ermmmmm

    .......................Flawed experiment. A glued dovetail is definately stronger!!!

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    OK, today I'm going to build a picture frame and try unglued butt joints. That should be really strong.
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    How can you tell from the reference? They don't give any figures for load that the glued dovetail failed at, only that it was less for wide-angle glued dovetails. What load did narrow angled glued dovetails fail out? By inference, it was greater than the unglued ones.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gumby
    OK, today I'm going to build a picture frame and try unglued butt joints. That should be really strong.
    If'n yer stick it tergether with a coupla 3" nails at the appropriate angles then its dovetailed. Strong wifout any glue too.
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    To answer that just ask yourself if you would make someone a chest of drawers and just tap them in with no glue and then deliver it to them that way

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    The test only applied force in a single, constant direction.

    If lateral force or varied direction force was applied the results would have been diferent.
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    Quote Originally Posted by echnidna
    Well Kiddies,

    That's the question.

    What's your opinion.


    The answer is here

    http://www.amgron.clara.net/dovetail...ltestindex.htm
    Hi Echidna,

    Yep, I've seen that web page too, but note the date: 1958

    Since then modern glues have come a long way, and now materially bond with the timber and itself (well, for the first glue-up anyway), so I'd still stay with my vote of glued D/Ts being stronger than a purely mechanical attachment.

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    Didn’t have the patience to read the whole thing. It was written in 1958 right? Please don’t tell me glue makes it weaker.
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    I see there are many disbelievers on this forum

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    a

    real

    treat

    for

    you

    all

    they

    are

    having

    a

    recruitment

    drive

    just

    for

    other

    non-believers


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    Hi all,

    The two panels in the picture are not from a matched pair, please note the last tail so this could be bs.

    I like the the idea of glued dovetail joints


    Regards Mike

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