First time that happened - with good glue anyway. Am in the last stages of putting together my latest router jig, the one for routing chess pieces. Went to the shop to trim of excess, and to cut a few more pieces to size that need to be glued on.
Trimmed a bit off the body of the jig, set it down, it broke. I broke my jig. LOL I had glued some stacked pieces of 1/2" ply as a center splacer. It was one of those joints that failed. I looked at th e pieces, and apparently what happened was I put glue on one side, and just smeared a tiny bit on the other side, then clamped. There was enough glue to pull wood off the glued to piece, but only in a few spots. Way glue starved apparently, from the very start. I was wiping excess glue off with my finger, and I guess I swiped that across the piece I wanted to glue to get the glue off my finger, and didn't add more. I guess from now on I'll have to be more careful, and just wipe my gluey fingers on my pants. Ah well, it wouldn't have been ready until tomorrow anyway, so no time lost.
JOAT I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do them.
- Picasso