Recently I was building a cabinet and one of the joints did not close up completely, leaving the thinnest little crack visible. The joint had a good fit, I just didn’t get clamping pressure where it needed to be. The solution, I knew, was to get some glue down in the that crack and reclamp the joint. So I scoured the local Woodcraft store and found a pair of little accordion-style bottles with long needle noses. At $4.50 for the pair, I figured it was a good risk. Well, they worked fine for the joint, even though I would have liked a needle nose with a much smaller opening. I was happy.

Then I started to make a box with three trays, and the glue bottle really showed its worth. All of those small parts needed glue, but a normal-size glue bottle put down too big a bead of glue. So  I tried the needle nose of my accordion bottle. It put down a perfectly sized bead of glue, and it’s very easy to control when the flow starts and stops. I was able to get all of the trays, including the dividers, together without any squeeze-out. The needle nose was also perfect for applying glue when gluing the lid lift on.

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