20-02-2022, 03:44 PM
I'm a bit late to the party here. As Nick suggested, we have a surprising secret when it comes to gluing frames together. The answer is that we hardly ever do. My feeling is that for the most part it's better to allow a bit of flexibility in the joints. I'd back that up by saying that we must have dismantled several hundred original assemblies and we've never found a trace of glue in any of them.
We do use glue for laminating curved sections and for putting together some complicated sub-assemblies. For these jobs we use a good-quality, exterior-grade PVA wood adhesive, such as Evo-Stik.
I think it was Derek who mentioned Gorilla Glue. It's perfectly true that it sticks very well, but my main objection to it is that it foams as it dries and this then sets to a very hard mess that's extremely difficult to remove.
We do use glue for laminating curved sections and for putting together some complicated sub-assemblies. For these jobs we use a good-quality, exterior-grade PVA wood adhesive, such as Evo-Stik.
I think it was Derek who mentioned Gorilla Glue. It's perfectly true that it sticks very well, but my main objection to it is that it foams as it dries and this then sets to a very hard mess that's extremely difficult to remove.