SYRINX   Last plank cleaning up
This is the bit everyone likes to avoid!

The last plank has just gone on sweetly, no struggles, no gaggles of nippers trying to close up a recalcitrant lap. So let's pack up and go home to a nice glass of wine...

Oh no!  We've got to clean up the glue.    On the inside where the runs & blobs will stick out like a sore thumb under any paint or varnish.   But also on the outside where it is vital to trowel a thick layer evenly along the plank edge. This is permanently to seal the end grain of the ply edge.

I usually make a mug of something hot and open the biscuit tin to get us through this half an hour.
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