Glueing wooden model pieces

[Bill97]

I am curious what other builders of wooden model ships do. I am build a wooden model ship kit. The vast majority of precut pieces or pieces I will make myself from the ship supplies are wood. The instructions directly me to coat the deck pieces with varnish after I apply the planks. My years of experience doing wood work tells me that once the deck has varnish on it I will not get good glue adhesion to the deck for other wood pieces. Do I switch to a CA glue instead of wood glue?

[Baker]

I do indeed first give the deck a few layers of varnish (danish oil).
On the places where something has to be glued later I scratch this layer away. And then glue the object there with normal wood glue.

[Bill97]

Thanks Baker. That seems to work OK for you. I guess if I was to scratch away to much varnish I can always touch up around the edge of whatever I glued in place. Looking at your Finished list I can see you have experience to know the answer. Very nice completion list!