glue up question

It should go away when your sand it Mike,if you feel better about it you can use a damp sponge and wipe of the excess just be careful not to take it out of the joints.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

It’ll be there and be a dark brown if it was Titebond III. But it will sand off if not too deeply in the grain. Next time wash off with a damp sponge before it sets up.

Jim beat me to it.

cool thanks for the info guys, I also learned to glue up only a few pieces at a time, much easier that way. I think I might have to plane it to make the joints line up, they are not off that far, but far enough to annoy me.

Mike, if the initial alignment of the pieces on your cutting boards are anything like mine, then you’ll end up sanding away far more than just the excess glue!!

Yes bill I think I will be doing a lot of sanding! Hey would the glue mess up the blades on a planer?

Mike, dried glue will do a number on your planer blades if the glue bubbles are still really bumpy and raised. If theyre semi smooth you can run it through the planer, just not if its an end grain board.

-- "there aren’t many hand tools as awe-inspiring as the #8 jointer. I mean, it just reeks of cast iron heft and hubris" - Smitty

You can run glue through a planer, but I heavily recommend scraping off any blobs before putting it through. Dull them up very, very fast hitting those hardened glue blobs, and you might get some tearout if the glue carries some wood with it.
Titebond III is not that fast. What temperature is the room you are working in?
It is however very strong, and that is why you might get tearout on the planer in addition to dull blades if you do not take the blobs off before planing.

One side note: don’t forget, if you are planing with a blade planer, make sure all the grain is going with the blade rotation on that cutting board.

-- Paul, Tennessee, http://www.tsunamiguitars.com

yeah scraped all the blobs of glue off, I might actually be able to sand it down, the difference between the boards is less than half a credit card, the rest of the ones that I glued up are just about dead on flat, but the first few…not so pretty. nope there is no end grain, this is the kit I bought http://www.woodcraft.com/Product/2083205/33694/Cutting-Board-Kit--Milled.aspx I am thinking about putting some kind of dark wood as a border around it any ideas?

A cabinet scraper will remove material faster than sandpaper, taking the glue off and leaving a flat, smooth surface that you won’t even have to sand.

-- Every day above ground is a good day!!!

cool thanks CJ I will look into one of those. Heard they were good.

Mike