How To Remove Wood Glue In Four Easy Ways

 

This is how to remove wood glue in four easy ways. In this post, I’ll show you four ways to remove wood glue from your projects, if you find yourself needing to clean up the excess after gluing.

Wood Glue Removal for Woodworkers

Sometimes, despite your best efforts, accidentally have some dried wood glue on your boards or projects after you glue something together. This happens to everyone, and you need a couple of good methods to make that excess wood glue go away.

I’m going to show you four really good methods coming up, and each one of them deals with the problem with a different level of aggression. For example, if you have a lot of wood glue to remove, sandpaper just isn’t going to cut it, so you’ll need a better way.

The nice thing about having four different ways to remove dried wood glue is that you can pick the one that makes the most sense for your Woodworking project, and it will be quick and easy.

Planer or Jointer

This first method is the most aggressive of the mall, and it’s reserved for those times when you glue something together and really make a mess of it, but the boards are still flat. In times like this, you may just be able to use your jointer or planer.

Especially if you are gluing several pieces of wood together, a few passes through the planer can quickly take off the excess wood. Likewise, if you get too much glue on the edge of a board, you can take a few passes along the jointer.

Hand Chisel

This next method is for when you have a lot of glue to remove, especially drips, but the shape of the material won’t pass through a planer or jointer safely. In situations like this, you still need an aggressive method, but unfortunately, you won’t be able to use a power tool.

Cabinet Scraper

The next method for getting dried glue off your project is the cabinet scraper, and this is one of my personal favorites. The great thing about a cabinet scraper is that it works basically like a mini hand plane.

Sandpaper

Next comes the least aggressive method of removing glue that has dried on to one of your projects by mistake. If you only have a very thin layer of glue, or a couple little drips, sandpaper is where you should start. This is going to be the least aggressive method, but if that’s all you need, then you shouldn’t go any farther.

Preventing Dried Glue Residue

Finally, the best thing you can do if you want to not have to deal with this problem at all is to take care of the issue before it becomes a chore. That means after every glue-up, look around your piece for areas where you can remove the glue while it’s wet.

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