When I was building a kitchen table recently, I edge-glued half a dozen boards to make the top. It was unwieldy, so I glued up two sub-assemblies of three boards each, then glued them together. I took all the usual precautions, with careful edge-jointing, clamps above and below the boards, and three pairs of cauls. The results were not good. The boards had shifted, the glue had smeared, and I had days of work trying to get the panel flat and clean. In the end, I thought: There must be a better way to glue up a clean, flat panel! That's when I designed and made this clamping station for panel glue-ups.
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