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To be certain, it’s the water in glue that makes the wood swell, but sometimes we will put glue in the channel first and then seat the wood on top of it. We felt like with this long of a piece that there was a chance in that scenario that the wood (either the b/w/b strips or the mahogany) might swell up too much before it was fully seated. So this time, we fit the mahogany first in the channel and essentially wicked a more watered down glue in the joint while everything was in place. That way if swelling occurred, it was more or less securing the wood even more.