Prepare End Grain for Gluing

back side all right now when creating these hexagons or honeycomb shelves the end grain glue that's basically any time you see the side of you know and grain a piece of wood it's usually that the hardest glue up and the most difficult and the reason why is because the entire grain pattern of a piece of wood runs like straw so grab a handful of straws that's what it looks like and just like putting flowers like roses into a vase they tend to suck the water up when you put glue on top here let's say we glue these two pieces together there would be a lot of wood glue that would go into the end grain kind of like a straw and you would lose a lot of your strength before it actually dries up so one little tip that I've learned that doesn't guarantee a hundred percent strength but improves it significantly is if you clog these pores right away so all I'm doing is taking a little bit of wood glue and doing a little a fine layer on top it drives there really quickly I mean I'm pretty sure it's all gonna dry in about five minutes or so once it's dried and the pores are clogged and then at that point am I gonna put another layer of wood glue and then actually join them together so that's a little trick for you guys so they don't fall apart later now for the