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Indiana

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What’s going on here I’ve never had this happen before glue up with cascamite and a few days later the panels have started to open up 😩
 

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One possibility is you glued up in high humidity, and humidity has since dropped. The panels would shrink widthwise, starting at the ends, so you'd get differential shrinkage along the glue line with gaps starting at each end.

I'm assuming the gap wasn't there during a dry fit - if not, the wood has moved and humidity change is the obvious culprit.
 

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