Welcome aboard!
Nice job on your first project.
I've routed a lot of glued up wood and plywood.
Glue does decrease tool life some I suppose, but so does using them. The way I look at it, cutting tools are consumable items, using them up is just part of making cool stuff.
I wouldn't think twice about doing a glue up and running it through.
I don't think it dramatically reduces tool life on carbide tooling, high speed steel it does, but nothing we are running is HSS.
I say glue up and go for it!
Justin Pierce, aka spalted
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