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Threw one on the scale. Had to stand it on the corner to let it balance itself without me supporting it. 156.2lbs. No drivers yet......

glue squeeze out is a tough one.

If you wash it off as many would think to do, the water and force embeds it into the grain of the wood and then you are stuck to get it out easily. You are better off to let it harden and then cut it off as it would be just sitting on the surface of the wood and not embedded into the grain.

The best solution is not to have any. Easier said than done. Controlling the amount of glue so you don't put so much you have extreem excess squeezing out and running down the side of the wood. That comes with practice. Another thing you could do is to painters tape up the exposed edge so that glue rolls onto the taped face and not the wood.

WOW...so one of these will roughly weigh the same as 2 LFR1100's and more than an EP800!!

Is this one of those cases where a plane makes sense ? I'm just starting to discover how useful they can be (and how dangerous :)).

Belt sander

plug that biotch into 220, ala tim the toolman

I cant move them easily by myself anymore. Everything is strategic now for fewest moves. Lol. It looks like getting them into the basement will require an appliance dolly and moving pads. They will be around 170 when finished.

These are serious!! They better sound good.

More power!

In this case No, but you have the right idea.

The tricky part about letting it harden, especially when it is a big blob is that the outside starts to harden but the inside is still pure liquid. You want to get it at the point of hardening but not cured.

Now I would say you'd have a far better chance of removal with a good sharp chisel. But even then you will likely leave a thin layer on the wood. Try too hard and you will gouge the surface trying to get it off. This is where a nice sharp plane can save the day. EXCEPT IN THIS CASE. Why you ask. Well it's baltic birch 'plywood' and that just doesn't plane. it will just tare and you'd make a further mess of it.

A belt sander is a sure fire way of removing way more material than you'd ever want to. Great if you were trying to shape into an organic rounded form. Not great if your trying to keep the shape. Your going to be stuck with multiple levels of grit (start with 100 if you've managed to remove most of it with a chisel) other wise you'll need 80. wrap the sand paper around a small piece of mdf to make a sanding block. Try to be gentle and take your time rather than gouge

You can progress to a RAS as 150.

OK, thanks.

I always thought of a belt sander as a relatively fast way to destroy something I spent a lot of time working on, popular in the past but displaced recently by Tannerite and similar products.