I am in the process of refinishing a small mahogany dropleaf table that has been in my wife's family since before the Civil War. My father-in-law had it refinished in 1929 and it has seen some very heavy duty since then.
My question concerns the mortise and tenon joints. The legs came off of the skirts relatively easily. I was able to remove the old hide glue from the tenons with a little judicious use of several scrapers.
The inside of the mortises are a different story. I have scraped the walls as well as I could within the limitations of the small size of the holes.
What would be the best glue to use to reassemble the legs and the skirts. I do not want to use hide. :-)
Pinning is also not really a good option.
I usually assemble with Titebond II but was wondering if something like Gorilla would be better in that it would expand and fill any voids left from the scraping and maybe it would adhere better to the insides of the mortises.
Thanks for any light shed on my query.