Thread: blackwood strips

Ive glued up big panels with just PVA, as long as there is no force on them they should hold.


Al

Modern wood glues are stronger than the wood itself... so knock yourself out
Maybe make yourself a nice wide board and then see what comes to mind.

Cheers

Ian

Tonto, lay a few out on your bench and mix & match them to get the best grain match.

I've glued up cypress (planed fence pickets) for a tabletop before using white glue; a couple of weeks later you could feel slight ridges at the glue lines from the oftmentioned "creep", so I'd use yellow glue or polyurethane or somesuch to avoid this.


Good luck...........cheers.............Sean

Just a tip...when you glue them up, get the grain running the same way on all of them. Makes life a lot easier later.

I'm in the middle of making an end grain chopping board. I'm using blackwood, tas oak, myrtle and celery top pine. If I had to make another I would use all blackwood because the end grain looks brilliant. So you have all the peices ready for quite a numberof good quality end grain chopping boards, great xmas gifts.

When laying out your blackwood if its going to be a chopping board, try putting the pieces from the left hand side the very lightest colour, to the darkest colour on the right hand side. Then number from 1-20, then alternate the odd numbers to the left and even numbers to the right. Your board then becomes numbers 1, 20, 3, 18, 5, 16, 7, 14, 9, 12, 11, 10, 13, 8, 15, 6, 15, 4, 17, 19,2 that way you will get a great looking board that goes gradually from light to dark to light. You could do it the other way dark/light/dark. Either way it’s different and looks grouse. It also looks good on door panels etc. Happy chopping