6 Tips For Better Glue-ups

For some furniture projects, how well the final assembly or glue-up goes according to plan could determine their fate of success or ruin. Some glue-ups are more challenging than others, but seasoned woodworkers always approach each assembly with a great deal of care because they know from experience that some glue-up blunders are too costly to fix.

Dry-fitting, as we all know, is indispensable in each assembly job. In a complex glue-up like the speech bubble shelves shown in and that included dovetails and angled joinery, I would go as far as drawing up and testing the order