I am making four chairs with arms and an upholstered seat. The backs consist of six curved and tapered slats mortisied into the rear seat rail and into the underside of the crest rail, so lots and lots of mortises and tenons. I sanded all the parts by machine and hand to 220 grit before the glue-up. All parts are curly maple. Inevetably, there is a little glue squeeze out here and there (ok, quite a few places), visible even after I wiped away the glue when it was still wet. My question is this: is there a nifty power tool that I do not have that can make the cleaning up of all the million joints easier? I’ve tried a sharp chisel and a card scraper, but both leave a finish worse that before I used them. I can alsways hand sand, but man am I sick of sanding these chairs! Thanks.
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maple is tight grain - so if you used a yellow or white glue - it should have cleaned up after clamping. There really isn't any tool that I know of other then hand sanding to clean off the glue - I have seen some people use blue painters tape to protect the woodwork before glue up.
SA
I think Westchester has given you the right word, albeit not good news. You might try using a utility knife blade (not in the holder) as a scraper. It's trapizoidal shape might be easier to use with a delicate touch. Otherwise, sanding. You may need to do both scrape then sand.
Thanks Steve and Westchester.
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