Journeymans Work Exam

Very well done! Can you define paper glue up?

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The joinery looks great. And like Christopher, I’m curious about the “paper glue up”.

-- Pat

Guten Tag This piece looks awesome, beautiful simple lines and joinery. It must be the area in which you live that inspires your woodworking. My great great grandfather who was a cabinetmaker was from Bavaria. There must be something in the water. Please explain the paper glue up process. I’d like to try it on the flag cases that I make if possible.

-- Don

Excelent craftsmanship! I too am curious about “paper glue up”.

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beautiful piece. nice clean lines! I like it!

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ok, ok…. i will describe the paper glue up, now that i am holding you all in suspense. ;-)

Its actually pretty straight forward or quite simple really, but I am having a hard time thinking of how i can describe it.

hmmm, now how best to do this a visual aid would be the best way, but I will try with text first.

So you have the what I call a Munton holding the glass in the frame…

well anyway you simply first glue some paper on to the munton, let dry, cut to fit, then glue the munton onto the side of the frame. all with normal wood glue (pvac) glue.

Ok I got some pics here they should say a thousand words

First an overall view, from a piece that I built recently…. with a frame and paper glue up (this is how I call it or translate it from german)

now the detail:

So as you can see in the second pic the munton is holding the glass in and paper is glued in between… and viola! You have what I call a paper glue up! you have a piece of glass/filling of what ever that can be replaced without any sort of visible screws… and when done right the glass vibrates not and it simply looks good in my opinion! It holds just as good as glued normally with out paper, but when you remove the munton to replace the glass then it should break off where the paper is and not tear into the wood of the frame… it can be that the munton needs also to be replaced afterwords, but it is only a small piece of wood anyway, and worth the effort.

I hope this cleared up any questions, if not, I will make a better sketch with the hand and try again.

-- Nicholas, Journeyman Cabinetmaker, Partenkirchen, Germany

Very impressive work! Thanks for sharing.

God bless
Tom

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Great piece. Thanks for explaining your “paper glue up”. That’s a great idea.

-- - Jim, Vancouver,WA

Nice job, thanks for the paper glue lesson, great idea!! You surely passed that exam:=))

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