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How do you clean up your glue squeeze out? I have tried wiping it down but it just smears a stain across the wood, or a damp paper towel but that can leave an even uglier stain. Let it dry and shave it off? That's the only way I can avoid the staining but always risk a nick or gouge in the finishes. Any tried and true methods out there?

Using LMI white glue and Titebond original.

larry

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Let it dry for about 15 minutes then it will sort of roll off with a scraper or a blunt chisel.

What Paul Sez, I sometimes use scrap bracing sharpened on the belt sander, to give me a chisel like device to remove the glue.

So grab a scrap of brace material about half the size of a tone bar and have at it. If you haven't thought about it, introducing water onto the glue joint should be done with great care if at all. You could easily cause weakening or washing away of the glue at the brace edge.

Get what you can, sand a bit when you are done once it's dry, and it's beautiful.

Ooops, here is something else I do, keep a roll of paper towels handy. I wipe the scraped glue onto a paper towel to clean the scraper and control where that glue ends up.Dickey38730.7838310185

[QUOTE=Pwoolson] Let it dry for about 15 minutes then it will sort of roll off with a scraper or a blunt chisel. [/QUOTE]

Worked great, I had not been giving it enough time.

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Larry,

My number one glue squeeze out tool is a McDonalds straw. A straw works great for collecting glue. It conforms to cracks and corners and removes glue quite well. Just take the straw and push it along the glue line. All the glue gets pushed up inside the straw protecting your wood and anything else from squeeze out. Give it a try and see what you think!

John

For braces I like to apply just enough glue to get a little squeeze out. I let it dry completely and take it off with a sharp chisel. Works great. I have often found it awkward to try and clean up the glue when things are clamped on the go-deck. So this method of waiting until it dries has worked well for me.

Josh

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Okay, I'd heard of Elshaw's straw idea, and now Josh's let 'er dry idea. Heck, and Larry sez Paul's idea fifteen minutes works, so hey, that's three ways to skin that cat.

Anyone besides me ever seen brick laid up where the mortar gets left just squeezed out to harden? It can be done very uniformly too and is interesting. Just too bizarre for my tastes. I'm glad we clean up the squeeze out on our guitars at some point.

I wait about 10 minutes and use a glue clearing chisel, but I NEVER sharpen it. I find it works great when it is a little dull and has very little chance of digging into the top (or back).

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Here's what they do at Taylor, like Brock.

http://taylorguitars.com/see-hear/

Go to Factory Fridays, then More to page 2, and look at the bracing video. The glue clearing happens about 3/4 of the way through it. Kinda looks like the guy on the line has done this maybe a couple hundred thousand times.

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