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Create Chamfered Edges and Glue Panels

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What happens here

To prevent water and insects from entering between board gaps in an outdoor setting, a chamfered edge design is chosen. This involves using a router to create a 45-degree bevel on the edges of each board. After chamfering, the boards are joined together using a biscuit joiner, inserting biscuits into slots cut on the edges to ensure precise alignment and prevent warping during glue-up. Titebond III waterproof wood glue is applied generously to the edges before clamping the boards tightly together to form the main panels (sides, top, and bottom) of the console. Excess glue squeeze-out is immediately wiped clean with a damp rag to prevent it from affecting future staining. Reinforcement strips are added to the ends of the glued panels to prevent cupping.

Goal: The prepared wood boards are chamfered on their edges and then glued together to form larger panels, using biscuits for alignment to ensure perfect flatness.

Tools and materials

  • Biscuit Joiner
  • Router
  • Shop Towels / Rags
  • Wood Clamps
  • Titebond III Ultimate Wood Glue Titebond
  • Wood Biscuits

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Oh, that's a tight fit right there. That's a real tight fit. So, let's talk texture. Originally, I was going to do these gap cleat spaced out. The problem with that is you have water, bugs, and all that stuff coming in there. So, that's out of here. The next idea that I have, which I think we're going to go with, is if we create a chamfer on the side. A chamfer is just a 45° straight bevel edge. We created on both of these boards going across. So, it'll create that look like, you know, when you have a tongue and groove cedar boards joined together, you'll get that look right there. I think it'll create a perfect amount of texture. These are about 5-in wide boards at this point. It's going to look awesome. We're going to throw it on the router cuz that's going to be the fastest way possible to keep it consistent, and then we'll start talking about glue. Woo! We are back. Because I got everything chamfered up here, we got to make sure that these suckers, when they're getting glued up, are perfectly flat. We can't afford to flatten things out as, you know, after the glue up because that'll ruin the chamfer. So, to make sure it doesn't get out of whack, we're going to get these biscuits, create a little slot in there, put that biscuit in there, and what that'll do is keep it in the same plane, so it'll save our butts when it comes to sanding. I just got to make sure I go get a wet rag because when wood glue squeezes out into these chamfer slots, I got to make sure that sucker's clean cuz stain will not get into it and sanding is going to be a bit Well, there we have it, folks. Nice, clean glue up, nice flat, got rid of all the glue, made sure we got a little reinforcement so this thing is not overly tightened and starting cupping out or bowing out. Got to let it rest overnight, tomorrow pop it out. I'm going to have to work through Saturday and Sunday to get all three panel glue up so that Monday we can start slapping this sucker together. We got to do the top and the bottom. I need more lumber. It's been about 3 days. The panels are

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