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Paul39
14th March 2016, 10:51 AM
I picked up a bunch of 7 ply 20mm plywood off the side of the road and want to glue up enough layers to make a 100mm - 150mm thick bowl blank.
Is it better to put 2 - 3 layers together at a time and then glue those together, or to do the whole stack at once?
Would it take longer to dry if I did a stack of 4 or 6?
I have some granite sink cut outs that I could use to clamp 2 or 3 together and keep them flat.
Christos
14th March 2016, 11:50 AM
I have done a bowl out of LVL and treated this as normal wood. I did not have a smooth surface on the mating pieces and I allowed 24 hours before I used it.
I was sort of concern about voids but did not have any in the LVL board. Just to add contrast if I did not have enough I also added a hardwood piece in the blank.
Old Croc
14th March 2016, 08:44 PM
Paul, you did not indicate what glue you are going to use. I did this once and used Titebond 2 glue and used a scissor jack from a car under my metal lathe bed for mass. Not sure if you have them over there, but don't use a hydraulic one as they can leak down.
Rgds,
Crocy.
hughie
16th March 2016, 08:21 PM
Being a bit impatient at times. I glued my stack all at once with a bunch of G clamps around the outside. Wasnt real fancy plywood so it had voids in the layers, other than that it worked fine using PVA I left it for about a week.
hughie
17th March 2016, 06:46 PM
Being a bit impatient at times. I glued my stack all at once with a bunch of G clamps around the outside. Wasnt real fancy plywood so it had voids in the layers, other than that it worked fine using PVA I left it for about a week.
In hind sight it would have better to use high quality plywood, not construction plywood as I did at the time.
Paul39
18th March 2016, 01:44 AM
In hind sight it would have better to use high quality plywood, not construction plywood as I did at the time.
What I have is better than construction but not as good as Baltic Birch. I'll have a go to see how it works.
Thanks to all who commented.