I know this sounds strange but the picture below will illustrate what happened. I made a cherry picture frame this weekend but during the clamping one of the corners slid up so the top of the face isnt flush. The problem with cleaning this up is tricky to me because i have cut bevels in the face of the frame. For the flat reveal i can use my block plane, but how do i flush up the bevel? Thanks
carefully use a chisle and blend over a distance? how did you fasten the corner. can you carefully separate itby breaking the glue line on the end grain? if that is possible reglue properly.
My thoughts are to take apart that joint from the back use a coping saw to get part way through and then drive a chisel in to split it. My concern is that even if you get it apart how are you going to get glue back in there. My more radical suggestion is use the miter saw and cut through all four joints and start over. The ends will be clean of glue and you won't lose much in size.
Miter gauge it at 45 degrees on a band saw very carefully and re-glue? technically it'll be out of square but for a picture frame i doubt anyone would pick it up
I agree with gfadvm a heat gun or if not available a hair dryer will heat up the glue, it will become soft again and release if you used woodworking glue.
without breaking the joint, the odds of making the error disappear are slim leaving it as unnoticeable as a missing front tooth.
If the miter joint is just butted (no spline/biscuit/tenon) then you should be able to use a hammer to break it, remembering to use a small scrap of wood as not to dent the frame
Using a dovetail saw, cut through the bad joint and through the opposite corner joint (to keep the angles the same.)
Reglue, reclamp.
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