I’ve been plagued with glue squeeze out with the building of my Tiny Trees. When attaching the legs to the aprons I always have glue squeeze out. These are floating tennon joinery using an 8 or 10 mm Festool Domino. At this point all of my wood is already sanded to 800 of 1000 and will be stained or just paste waxed after gluing so glue squeeze out is a problem. This just is not an application where I can scrape or cut it off…. It will ruin the finish. I’ve googled it until I have worn the keys off my iPad and haven’t found a suitable answer for the problem. So…. I always put a slight bevel on each domino end to make it go in the hole easier. About half way through this batch of 6 tables I decided to instead of putting the bevel on the dominos to put the bevel on the domino hole. I always have a Dremmel tool with a 1/4” sanding drum handy so I just gave each hole a couple of swipes to cut in about 1/8” bevel and the dim light went off in my head. Now when I’m assembling the tables and put a thin coat of glue on the domino the glue buildup stays in the void created by the bevel rather than squeezing out. I finished the tables with no squeeze out and a big smile on my face!
This additional 10 second to cut bevel should also work on dowels and regular mortise and tenons.
This additional 10 second to cut bevel should also work on dowels and regular mortise and tenons.
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