On Nov 10, 5:26*pm, (Larry W) wrote:
In article ,

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.
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* *There are no stupid questions, but there are lots of stupid answers.

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

I'll Jump in with Larry on this. If you have extra width to work
with, rip through the glue joint and re-do it. I recently restored
an antique elm claw -foot table that had several cracks in the glue
joints (likely animal glue) in the top. After some careful measuring
and head scratching I ended up ripping through the joints and re-glued
them. In this case, I had to compensate for width with the edge trim
but it worked quite well. If width is an issue, you might be able to
use a thin-kerf blade.

RonB