Gluing and Clamping Archives | Woodworking

Dovetail Drawer Assembly Clamping Blocks

March 10, 2016 By Bruce Kieffer & filed under Gluing and Clamping, Plans and Projects, Skill Building, Woodshop Projects.

Half blind dovetailed drawers are great, but clamping the joints properly can be challenging. Using clamping blocks that apply pressure exactly where the dovetail pins and tails join is crucial. These simple-to-make clamping blocks do the trick. I’ll show you how… Read More

Measuring Wood Glue Assembly Time

January 29, 2015 By Bruce Kieffer & filed under Gluing and Clamping, Skill Building.

Woodworking adhesives are not created equal, and because of this I use several different glues, based upon manufacturer’s guidance as well as my own assumptions and experience about how each glue performs in certain circumstances. There are a number of criteria that help me decide which… Read More

6 Tips for Cleaning Up Glue Squeeze-Out

December 10, 2014 By Bruce Kieffer & filed under Gluing and Clamping, Skill Building.

Whenever you clamp a woodworking project together, some glue is bound to squeeze out between the pieces. Tom Caspar shows you six ways to minimize the mess. Read More

Gluing Up Panels

February 25, 2014 By Bruce Kieffer & filed under Gluing and Clamping, Skill Building.

Gluing up panels is a must-have skill in woodworking. From table tops to raised panels there are plenty of times you’ll need to glue boards edge to edge. When you do you want the panel flat, with rock solid glue joints. Here’s the recipe for making… Read More

Stopped-Cut Bent Lamination

May 16, 2012 By Bruce Kieffer & filed under Gluing and Clamping, Skill Building.

My family lives in Northern Michigan, where we get tons of snow. While we love to cross country ski in the woods, we also like to go for walks out on the snow-covered road. I wanted to pull my two-and-a-half year old daughter in something a bit… Read More

Repair Veneer on an Antique

May 2, 2012 By Bruce Kieffer & filed under Gluing and Clamping, Skill Building.

A recent restoration job required that I replace the badly damaged oak veneer on the top of an antique table. The piece was an old salesman sample of a sewing table. Back in the day,salesmen would bring these scale models on sales calls. This sample was from the White Sewing… Read More

A Guide to Veneering Wood: Part 3

September 6, 2011 By Bruce Kieffer & filed under Gluing and Clamping, Skill Building.

This is the final installment of a three-part story, each showing a different way of applying veneer to a substrate. The first article showed how to use contact cement to attach veneer to a substrate, part 2 showed using clamps and cauls, and this… Read More

A Guide to Veneering Wood: Part 2

August 9, 2011 By Bruce Kieffer & filed under Gluing and Clamping, Skill Building.

This is the second part of a three-part story, each showing a different way of applying veneer to a substrate (Click here to read part one). This story focuses on using clamps, cauls and wood glue to do the work. The same essentials are true using… Read More

A Guide to Veneering Wood: Part 1

June 13, 2011 By Bruce Kieffer & filed under Gluing and Clamping, Skill Building.

This is the first in a three-part story, each showing a different way of applying veneer to a substrate. When veneering wood, it is important to remember a couple of things. First, and foremost, veneer always needs to be counterbalanced, meaning, ALWAYS apply veneer to both sides of the substrate. Read More

End Joining Long Boards

May 17, 2011 By Bruce Kieffer & filed under Gluing and Clamping, Skill Building.

This trick is also great for clamping together all kinds of odd shaped hard-to-clamp joints, and useful a when you need a longer clamp than you have. The Problem. Every so often we are all faced with a “how the heck do I clamp this” situation. Read More