How tight should they be? Joints that is!

[Jacob]

.... all glues give up in the end, and you don't really want the joint to depend on something with such a finite life.
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Yebbut you are talking hundreds of years........

We're never going to agree on that.

There are plenty of objects well over 100 years old which haven't needed gluing back together again!

 

[MikeG.]

.....There are plenty of objects well over 100 years old which haven't needed gluing back together again!

And plenty that have. Like I said, we aren't going to agree.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Years ago I dealt with scores upon scores of pieces of furniture between a few decades and a few centuries old, I don't remember ever seeing one that either didn't need reglueing or hadn't already been reglued.

 

[Jacob]

Years ago I dealt with scores upon scores of pieces of furniture between a few decades and a few centuries old, I don't remember ever seeing one that either didn't need reglueing or hadn't already been reglued.

What caused them to come apart? If it was glue failure did they just spontaneously deconstruct themselves?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Poor choice of timber, lack of proper seasoning, lack of adhesive, general poor workmanship .................................. and central heating.

 

[LBCarpentry]

We are blessed with many choices of advanced glue these days for different situations. I often use more than one type of glue on a project or even the same joint.