Stan wrote:

Help! I've been building a dining room table that is 5ft square made of
hard maple. I've followed the directions in my FWW mags and books to
the letter. I've alternated the grain but with the climate change, my
table top has curled up ALOT. Now there are 4 separate areas where the
6inch wide boards, which were biscuited, glued, and clamped, have
become separated at the ends, perhaps 1 to 4 inches into the table from
the edge. A gap exists between 1/16 and 1/8". Now what? The only
thing I can think of is to somehow get glue back in this tiny crack and
then re-clamp. Please offer me your good suggestions. Thanks,
-Clueless

Several other pretty good responses...I'm leaning to that you may not
have had as straight an edge as desirable as well as the temperature may
have caused glue failure. Did the material have time to acclimatize to
the temperature before your glued it or was it still cold? It's not the
air temperature that's important as much as it is the material
temperature.

Also, if there was any visible gap or "rocking" that you had to pull up
w/ the clamps, that's not an adequate fitting prior to gluing--you need
it tightly fitting all along the length simply by hand w/o relying on
clamps to close any gaps.

The bowing may well be compounded by having left it laying flat on the
bench so that air circulation has been restricted on the one side
relative to the other--similar effect as having only finished one side.

Since it's still a new project, the suggestion to re-glue is probably
the best route to a good end product as it's unlikely you'll get a good
bond again and if it was, indeed, glue failure from cold weather, it'll
likely fail further sooner than later--and it would definitely be a
shame if that were just after you were completely finished and set it
inside...