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   roc | Jun 20, 2012 04:31am | #1

   wife . . . feedback (who does not like primitive style)

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   No doubt you will find some indentations too that perfectly reflect the face of your largest hammer or perhaps your spud bar.

   I wouldn't worry about it. It is just your wife expressing her views on "primitive" style.  She feels it  important to keep communication lines open.

   Seriously though . . .

   by the looks of the direction of the fibers of the wood that are still stuck on the board in the photo you have made a cross grain glue up.  Problem being that the block that fell off shrank across the grain (probably from heat in your shop if you are like many of us here) and the long board in the photo could not shrink in the same dimension but shrank some across ITs grain.  So . . . there was too much movement in the joint during and after the curing of the glue.

   Also it is critical with the type of glue you used to have a super good fit up, both boards very flat, so you couldn't slide a 2 thousandth (.002 inch ) feeler gauge between them.  With epoxy or maybe contact cement you might have got away with a poorly fitting cross grain glue up.

   Still, the cross grain boo boo is mostly what got you.

   Try it again by planing off the old glue, run the block and the frame component grain in the same direction and most importantly . . . hang the frame in your shop but DO NOT show it to your wife.

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