"Larry W" wrote in message
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Dick Snyder wrote:
This post is sort of related to the one about carpenters glue solvent. I
made a mistake gluing two pieces of cherry with yellow glue. My first
instinct is to use water to soften the glue but I wonder if I will wreck
the
wood doing that.

What is your advice?

TIA.

Dick Snyder



If possible, for instance if this is a panel glue-up, just rip along the
glue
line and compensate for the loss of kerf thickness somewhere. In my own
experience, trying to separate 2 pieces glued with yellow glue is a crap
shoot. Whether you try softening the glue with water or some other
solvent,
there is still a good possibility that wood on either side will crack
before the glueline separates. If you can just rip or saw the glueline,
you will be in controll of what happens, with other methods there's
no way to be certain what will happen.
--
There are no stupid questions, but there are lots of stupid answers.

I have a piece of cherry 26" long edge glued at a 90 degree angle (actually
it is 85 degrees which is the problem!). I can't really rip the joint
without ruining both pieces of wood. I will glue up a test sample and try a
heat gun per Lew's suggestion to see what happens to the cherry.

Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland - lwasserm(a)sdf. lonestar. org