Framing joints with boatwright methods

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I'm taking a chance here by offering an idea from another craft. But necessity, being the mother of invention, made me reach across the shop to another bench for help.
I was framing with a particularly soft and flat profiled moulding and ended up using a newly acquired strap clamp to hold the frame together. I had used a dab of cyanoacrylate on each corner. Once it was all in place I was afraid to drive the V nails in as it was a flat profiled moulding as well. I said to myself, "If this were a flattie of a skipjack I could just sweat a little thin cyano into the joints." Bing. Wood is wood. I reached for the thin formula (I use thick for butt joints) and let some run onto the joint from the back of the frame. The capilliary action drew it deep into the miter joint, filling into the grain of the wood, and even filled the minor gaps as it would on one of my models. The glue won't run out the fronet joints because those are very tight. As far as strength, I was able to shortly drive my V-nails without any shifting. It became a a tight and timely assembly. That frame could have been delivered on an "as you wait" basis.
I have no clue as to the originality of this but it was new to me and extremely useful for my limited space.

I hope you all still know me when I buy the old Brumley Road gerneral store and convert it into my ship/gallery.
 
It's the stuff that, if you have any on your fingers and scratch your bare butt, you'll glue yourself together!! :eek: It's called Super Glue and the cyanoacrylate is the active ingredient that makes it bond almost instantly. (I guess.)

Framerguy
 
Sounds like you're speaking from experience, Tom.
What a picture! :D
 
Yeah, laugh if you want, but that stuff is really STRONG!!

(Took me forever to get those uprooted hairs off my fingerprints!!)
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