Edge Gluing Hardwood covered Plywood

Just glue wider strips and use a router to flush them up. Quick and easy. It adds the same amout of time
always so you can predict exactly how long it will take.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

I have to admit I tried this, but have not yet built a router table, and found that as I ran the length of the 4 foot board I rocked the router a bit (only the 3/4 inch face to steady the router) and ended up gouging the strip. Help.

-- Things of the greatest worth are from the Earth. Ben Harper

If you do two pieces at once, clamp a 2×4 between the pieces to create more surface area for the router
to rest on. If only doing one piece make something to give you more support.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

nice one, i will give it a try

-- Things of the greatest worth are from the Earth. Ben Harper

Try ripping about 10 inches off of a nice factory edged piece of plywood and screw it to a 2×4 and clamp that
to the single piece of plywood you are edging. That should work.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

There are a couple things you can do…1) for the alignment issue and to create more gluing surface you could use a set of edge banding router bits to create the thick edge banding and the matching profile in the edge of the plywood..2) for trimming if you are having trouble using a router to flush trim then use side rabbet hand planes (like a Stanley 98 and 99 pair or Lie Nielson 98 99 pair)..you would be amazed at how fast and precise you can trim down the excess with these..plus you can set the depth so you only are trimming the edging and not even touching the plywood..now if your doing 1000 feet of edge banding at a time then that would be a different matter

-- Rich, Madison WI

I’ve recently seen a lot of router bits that cut matching profiles for applying edge banding to plywood. That might be an option if you were up for that…

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Brent,

Having the same problem you do, I purchased router bits to cut matching profiles on wood strips and plywood. They work well but you need a beefy router table. The main advantage is the fact that the pieces fit so snugly I can just put glue and knock them in without too many clamps.

Alin

-- -- Alin Dobra, Gainesville, Florida

I either T&G the pieces, or use splines.

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