GLUING UP 119 



In applying the glue to the strips, perhaps you 

 have stood them endwise in a tin-tube of glue 

 standing that in hot water to keep it warm and 

 winding first one end of the joint and then reversing 

 it and winding the other; or, first having tied the 

 strips together at two or three points, you have 

 made use of a cardboard or tin device having a circle 

 of six triangular holes through which the unglued 

 strip-ends are thrust to keep them separated while 

 applying the glue to their individual inner surfaces, 

 as you intermittently glue for a short distance, slip 

 the separator along a bit, and wind. Then, after 

 the winding is completed, from butt to the smaller 

 end of the joint, you sight along the joint for ir- 

 regularities, and heat it again at these points, to 

 correct them by counter-bending. 



Again, we have tried gluing up and winding the 

 joints in separate halves, clamping each half till the 

 glue had thoroughly set, and then gluing the mating 

 halves together and clamping the whole against a 

 rigid, straight, heavy strip of wood with a lighter 

 clamping strip. This latter plan yielded pretty fair 

 results with some larger joints. 



But whatever of routine success others may have 

 achieved in pursuance of any of the above methods, 

 certain it is for us that way lies despair and wrath- 

 ful objurgation, nothwithstanding we are able to en- 

 dure all the preceding stress of splitting, straighten- 

 ing, and planing with unruffled placidity. 



