Old-World Light Bulb Load

Step 4 Gluing the Box

Because friction fit is never enough, the time arrived for me to glue the box together. I used Elmer's brand "Stainable Wood Glue", because I figured that I would probably end up with glue in a few random places and a stainable glue would probably help to hide it when the time came to stain the wood.

I started by taking the workpiece to the scroll saw and enlarging a couple corners to improve the fit under pressure. If anything, I may not have been aggressive enough in doing this, but it helped a lot.

I rolled out a sheet of aluminum foil, poured a little glue out onto a corner, and used a Q-tip to apply the glue to the mating surfaces of the box joint. As the process is rather time sensitive, I wasn't able to actually get pictures of this step in progress.

After the glue was applied and the box was assembled loose, I clamped it every which way and left it to sit for a few hours.