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    Tips & Techniques

    Apr 06, 2022 3 minutes

    SQUEEZEOUT-FREE GLUING

    ’ve always struggled with cleaning up the squeezeout from gluing mitre joints. When I was working on a mitred box recently though, I was struck with an idea. Once I was ready to make the mitre cuts, I took some painters tape and laid it on the edges of my workpeices, overhanging where I was going to make the cut. After making the mitres on the table saw, I had a perfect “zero-clearance” tape right up

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