Like exterior joints on your house, 45 the joint and overlap the 45's. The
joint appears to stay closed as it opens.


"Eric Cathell" wrote in message
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I have a deck that I am working on. Evidently the wood was majorly wet when
I put it down. On some of the boards the butt seams which were tight, have
gapped in some cases enourmously. A couple of them I replaced with
extras(after letting them sit in the sun for the day). However I cannot
replace all of them.


When I was younger I think I remember my father showing me a trick where
you take scrap wood of the type you are working with. cutting it up to get
sawdust, then mixing the sawdust in woodglue to an appropriate
consistency.....does anyone know of a technique like this? and more
importantly do you think it would work in this instance?

Eric