Thread: Laminating

mmmm seems the blokes are blind eh?

As for me I havent used either thimber... yet... but seems to be the way Id consider doing it

Whats the plan of attack once theyre glued up?

Waste not want not as me ol pop would say

Cheers

PS... if nothing else this may wake em up a tad eh!

John, since your strips aren't going to be very wide I think they should be OK. I'd be inclined to make the mahogany thicker & plane it down. Also make it a little wider & reduce it.

I've just laminated up some scraps, it sort of worked OK. What I did was a bit more complicated. First, but-jointed some scraps until they were about 200mm wide sheets, then thicknessed them to 7mm. Then laminated up a heap of sheets to form a block about 100mm thick, all with grain running the same way. Used many clamps, but still finished up slightly thicker at the middle of the block, which I put down to more glue at the edge being able to squeeze out. It'll still be OK for my purposes, but wouldn't you know it, the same day someone posted some pics of their shop-built o'head clamps that would have done the job properly. Why did I do this? All will be revealed in the fulness of time.

Thanks all for the encouragement.

Two reasons for wanting to laminate the timber, firstly decorative, secondly I have around 30 ft of this sycamore which is very rubbishy; knotty, twisted grain and some spelching. Also a tin of pva glue that is reaching the end of its use date, so might as well put that to a good cause.