Spike Carlsen

Use Old Credit Cards to Spread Glue

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The most common ways to spread glue onto your woodworking projects are with your index finger or a brush, but you may not know that you can also neatly spread glue with your old unwanted credit cards. Spike Carlsen teaches you how to make this simple tool using pinking shears to cut off the side of a credit card and use the serrated edge to spread the glue evenly onto any wood surface.

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One Response to “Use Old Credit Cards to Spread Glue”

  1. jterry8112

    Great idea to use pinking shears to make the serrations, as long as my wife does not catch me with them. Old credit cards are hard to come by, the plastic hotel room keys will work just as well.

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