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Splining

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For added strength when you're butting two boards together, use the carpenter's trick of splining. Using a router, cut a quarter inch by half inch deep rabbet in each of the pieces to be joined. Apply two beads of glue to each rabbet. Rip a piece of clear stock to one inch by one quarter, sandwich this "spline" between the pieces, and clamp for about an hour.

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