On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Mark Pfeifer 
wrote:

> One side note . . . . one slab was done with Elmer’s best wood glue. The
> other was done with Titebond blue, which I bought just to prove to myself
> that I could be flexible. I’ve never bought anything but Elmer’s, now I
> know why we stick with things that are proven. I’ll never buy Titebond
> again, because my old friend Elmer the cow definitely did a better job
> keeping things tight.
>

One more thing.  If this was regular Titebond, that glue has a much shorter
working time than Elmer's.  I think the package says 20 minutes, but in my
experience, with Titebond I have to get the pieces together as fast as
humanly possible.  This may be because much of the work I do is in an
unconditioned garage in central Texas.  By the time 20 minutes is up, the
glue is way too dry to stick.  Titebond Extend has a much longer open
time.  When I glued my slab bench, I used Titebond Extend and only glued 1
or 2 joints at a time.  To do half a slab (~10 boards) at once is too hard
for me working by myself with Elmer's or Titebond Extend.

Mark