Who waits the 30 minutes?

[Bob McGovern]

Well-jointed edges form a really strong butt-joint in under five minutes. Tight-fitting M&T or dovetail joints swell and lock almost instantly with water-based glues. I glue up panels vertically and spread glue with the higher board -- which also creates a nice initial tack. I try hard to unclamp in half an hour, to chisel off the soft "string of pearls" squeeze out. Also found many woods develop startling shadow lines if clamped overnight: my glueups take place near large windows facing morning sun.

Last week, I went from raw beech to 19 glued-up door panels in one long day. Glue up in batches of six or seven, rotate them thru as fast as possible. Nice thing about vertical gluing, it leaves you plenty of shop room to work in.

[Benjimin Young]

I use my whole body to spread the glue..... It seems to end up every where my lips hair arms all over my clothes. Clamps well did you ever make a mistake and want to reorient the wood and you cant budge it HMMM.

I thought I was the only one with a special glue-up wardrobe

[Steve Clardy]

I use offcuts for spreading glue after its applied.

About the size of popcicle sticks.

I pull clamps usually in 30 minutes.

[Dennis Peacock]

Yea....I had a mistake about 1 year ago with glue.

I edge glued a piece of alder to an edge of 3/4" plywood. Clamped it up, let it set for about 20 minutes...realized my mistake that I glued it to the wrong side of the plywood and I had to Chisel the wood, little by little, from the edge of the plywood. Stuff held on there good.