Thread: Glue for Hardwood Plywood Laminating ?

My suggestion would be to put that particular one in a corner as a learning experience, CNC a new form from MDF and use the MDF version as a template to go with a bearing guided router bit to churn our a stack of more accurately machined parts, to cut down on the amount of sanding requred!

Or pop that one on a bandsaw and make a few strategic cuts (take the top and bottom pieces off) to make it easier to sand. The parts can be epoxied back when sanded, and a bandsaw curf is so thin you'll never notice the cut when reassembled.

A good orbital sander or belt sander is the way to go - orbital if you are not so sanding experienced as they are less likely to gouge like a belt sander can.

>old pete,

epoxy sounds great from an assembly time perspective. I was hoping to avoid using it just because its such awful poisonous gunk which i have bad memories of using when fixing surfboard dings. But it may be the only realistic way to go with complex lamination projects like this one.

>master splinter,

the bearing guided router bit sounds like a good idea! This one was done on a home-built cnc router which was probably not as accurate as it should be.. but it was cheap. I think i'll persevere with this one, even if it takes an age to sand properly, as i cant really afford to just dispense with the pricey hardwood ply that went into it. But thank you for the suggestion, and i will go with an orbital sander, less likely to gouge is what i need, i think..