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Mary Lever
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Blackened frame corners

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Does anyone have a tip for stopping corners of oak frames sometimes becoming slightly blackened after joining. I’ve read about the cause but not a way to avoid or correct it? Thanks
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Can you tell us what the cause is? It might help work out a solution. At the moment I have no idea of what a blackened corner looks like.
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Could it be something to do with the wet glue rusting the staple pins a bit and that reacting with the tannins in the oak to create a black stain?
Or not?
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Oak and Ash can react to steel. That's why you never touch raw oak with steel wool.
Tiny fragments will lodge in the pores and it will go very spotty. :roll:

The only steel thing on the corner is the v-nails and I would have thought if any blackening shows they might be too
near the outside.
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