"toller" wrote in message
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"Charlie Self" wrote in message
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toller asks:

What is an edge glued board?

Boards glued edge-to-edge, not end-to-end or face glued.

So they are 8" panels made up of smaller boards?
Why would these exist?
They can't be scrap, and it doesn't make sense to put labor in to making
them.


See the post about skip planing. Commercial outfits which make such
excellent furniture have scanners looking at the boards and automated saws
cutting out the knots and defects. Tends to make a lot of shorter and
narrower pieces which are subsequently finger joined and glued into longer
and wider boards. Some make a virtue out of it by flaunting the glueups on
tabletops and other surfaces. It makes a piece with greater rigidity than
plywood suitable for shelving, too.