Anderson Ranch, Intro to Furniture Design (post 11 of ??). Day three, afternoon. After a yummy Korean lunch, the glue-up!
First I took the six boards of my tabletop and tried them in different configurations, to see if I felt strongly about grain lines matching up, etc. I mostly didn’t — the poplar wood is pretty simple and straightforward, and almost anything would have worked fine, I think. I watched some of the others with more complicated wood patterns, and they took a lot longer to figure out how they wanted to lay them out.
Then the instructor and I worked together to get glue on all the pieces and set them upright and glue them together, and then lay it out flat and clamp them all. I don’t think I could’ve actually done this on my own — I needed another pair of hands to manage all the pieces.
Once it was clamped, we set a timer — you want to give it enough time to set, but not so long that the excess glue gets really hard and difficult to scrape off. The instructor recommended an hour for this. So we got it clamped, and then went to work on something else…
