08-29-2017, 12:40 PM
I've got a old white oak china cabinet that was put together with doweled joints and hide glue. Most all the joints are loose and I am taking everything apart and re-glueing with hot hide glue. I will use alcohol on the difficult joints to further loosen them. My question is: how will the alcohol affect the re-glueing if at all. I don't plan to remove any more of the old glue than is necessary; just the loose crumbly stuff. I'm hopeful that the use of alcohol won't cause me to have to remove all old glue down to bare wood.