Thread: Progress

Looks like good progress is being made. What kind of glue are you using? I use Titebond 3 and find that it works very well. Particularly on end grain cutting boards where a lot of glue is used.

Cheap parfix PVA. It could also have been too old. Either way it is not up to the job with lots of joints failing.

Cheers Paul

Originally Posted by betchern0t

Cheap parfix PVA. It could also have been too old. Either way it is not up to the job with lots of joints failing.

Ouch. I'd be worried they are going to continue coming apart after the boxes are sent to the client. What are you going to do?

Agree with Jack - I’d be concerned about further joint failures.

Are the failures just at the corners or also along the side-to-side joins? If just at the corners could you disassemble with steam, clean upthe edges and reglue with a fresh bottle of glue, making sure to clamp together firmly as PVA has no gap-filling qualities to speak of?

Since glue is one of the cheapest components of woodwork I’d bin any old stuff - but that’s just my preference.

Hope you can fix these, betchern0t!

Regards,

Brian

Thanks for the kind words.

I think they will be right now. Part of the problem was extra stress from machining or dropping incomplete pieces. For example one broke doing edge trimming to bring the lid back to the size of the box. My technique wasn't right and so it was bouncing. The old glue was tossed a little while ago.

The recipients are family and their friends so if they break I will fix them. Probably what I would do is exposed dowells. drill down across all laminars in the side and put in a dowell and then diagonally across the corners. But the other thing is that since they are all assembled now they are much less likely to break because they are mechanically stronger - the walls and floor dissipate<sp?> any forces and support each other.

On the cost, so far I have spent about $AU10 per box on timber, a bit of sand paper and glue. So yes glue is still the cheapest. The biggest though is the time invested. The timber started as rough sawn.

I am officially the last of the cheapskates. I am not planning to charge the person - youngest son - who commissioned me. As I have said elsewhere my skills aren't up to charging yet. Although I have noticed the effect of the almost $2000 I have just spent on routing and table saw in terms of my accuracy.

Cheers Paul