Glued Edge Banding to the Wrong Sides!!

[Bugsysiegals]

Well I'm a magnet for mistakes.  I started my 2nd shop cabinet and was excited that in two days I had all the edge edge banding glued and flush trimmed.  I was really looking forward to using the DF 500 and assembling the carcass much quicker than it took me on the 1st cabinet when I realized my side panels and middle partition had the edge banding glued to the top/bottom rather than front/rear!! SMH

Since they're shop cabinets I can salvage the exterior panels by not gluing edge banding to the sides of the top/bottom panels and adding edge banding to the front/rear of the side panels but unfortunately I'm going to have to cut the edge banding off the partition and ruin a nice piece of 3/4" Walnut.

On the bright side, I'm glad I'm making these mistakes now on shop cabinets rather than some important project.  Lesson learned, label the panels with their names AND which side is up!  ;D

 

[tjbnwi]

You should be able to set up the track saw so you trim just the edge banding off without affecting the panel size. 

You’re not the first one to have edge banding issues.....

Tom

 

[ChuckM]

[oops]

Been there, done that.

For complex projects with demanding glue-ups, or using newly learned techniques in an important build, I use Old Brown Glue -- for its long working time and reversible properties: https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/tools/supplies/adhesives/glue/69158-old-brown-glue (Cdn price shown).

 

[Cheese]

I keep blue, green & yellow masking tape at the ready to quickly differentiate between items. Any important specifics are added with a Sharpie.

 

[Bugsysiegals]

Mistakes really suck but I’m usually able to shake my head, laugh about it, and move forward enjoying the journey. 

I labeled the pieces with date time of glue up so I could make sure I gave it 24 hours which I thought was a good practice but didn’t label the orientation which I thought would be trivial ... I guess it’s not so trivial after all. 

Thanks for sharing these tips ... hopefully these will help form good habits which minimize mistakes in the future.

 

[morts10n]

It is a good practice to use arrows and notes that signify "up",  "front", etc.
Also a simple "x" with a sharpie will help you edgeband the proper edge at some later time when your focus has changed

 

[PaulMarcel]

I have a 100lbs-heavy bag for boxing and a set of aerial straps to work off the frustration of making a mistake (which is, after all, normal, human, etc.) Then I usually go in with a clear head and a glass of Cabernet to think through "fixes" or "improvements". Usually, the improvements catch my attention and I spend too much time learning to achieve them. I think my woodworking knowledge is exclusively from "mistake resolution". Knowing that mistakes don't make me wanna punch a wall as much.

 

[WastedP]

It is a good practice to use arrows and notes that signify "up",  "front", etc.
Also a simple "x" with a sharpie will help you edgeband the proper edge at some later time when your focus has changed

Everyone seems to develop their own marking system.  Even when they work for me, and I have shown them the system I use in the shop.  I found a small stack of parts that were all labelled "SM" on the end.  For that kind of material, both sides are planed, and one side is graded to be the face.  That side is indicated with a ^ mark, pointing at the good side.  When I asked the guy what "SM" meant, he said that he had planed the Wrong Side, and flipped them over into a cull pile.  I still have some of those boards set aside, but their maker left the building long ago.

For edgebanding, I stick a piece of wide painter's tape on the panel and draw a simple sketch of the rectangle with hash marks for the edgebanded sides.  The memory of the pain of sawing off grain-matched solid wood edge is enough to convince me that labelling is worth the trouble.

 

[Bugsysiegals]

Thanks for the support everybody!

I was going to trim the edge banding with the TS55 but decided to use the Incra fence on the table saw instead.  It can be adjusted in increments of 0.05mm but I decided to do 3 iterations of 0.10mm which was still like a surgeon scalpel!!

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