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Assembly question.

I have a 31" x 22" red cedar glue up. The 22" sides are the end grains. I want to attach 4" vertical sides along the 22" sides with rabbet joinery. I was planning on gluing the entire 22" joint. Is that too long when considering expansion? Any ideas opinions, or alternate assembly ideas...
- Temp626
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- Jan 8, 2019
- glueup rabbet wood expansion wood movement woodglue
- Replies: 17
- Forum: General Woodworking
Seasonal Humidity Change

It's time to start paying attention to humidity (or lack of it), especially if you're working with thin wood that will stay inside a heated environment in the winter when it's finished. If you have a Samsung Galaxy S4 cellphone you have a hygrometer included along with its barometer and...
- Mark Fogleman
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- Nov 6, 2014
- humidity wood movement
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Workshop Discussion
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Platform Bed Design

I am looking to start this project in the next couple of weeks and thought I would throw it out there to get everyone's advice. Here is the bed plan I am looking to "copy" (I have a queen bed) http://www.workbenchmagazine.com/main/wb309-bed01.html I'm new to all this and have only made coffee...
- stal023
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- Feb 27, 2014
- bed wood wood movement
- Replies: 15
- Forum: General Woodworking
Reggie's PM on moderated post in "Wood movement" thread

Earlier today, I soft deleted Reggie's post, and sent him a PM explaining why: In other words, there was nothing wrong per se with Reggie's post, but it's sort of pointless to moderate Jeff's post and then leave the content intact in a reply. This is what Reggie sent in response to some of the...
- Bas
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- Feb 14, 2010
- moderated post reggie thread wood movement
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Moderators and Administrator's Discussion