Thread: Laminated Rolling Pin - How to glue up??

Originally Posted by Manuka Jock

The sun is up in the sky , and it shines on us first every day ,
so
how is the view from down there ?

Well, actually, the day begins in Guam. Haf Adai!

Originally Posted by Ed Reiss

lol Touche' MJ...you got me on that one!

BTW...it's 10:30 in the morning here, how come your not snoring away?

I couldn't sleep , trying to figure out why my Celtic ancestors needed a knotted rolling pin

This laminating is the same as celtic knot and only one thing half the articlles dont tell you is that the piece being inserted is to be the same as the saw kerf or the same as that which is taken out . If not then the points of junctions on the knot will not line up. I have done 2 of these and it took experimenting to work out what was going wrong . Ther are a number of articles on the celtic knot so read up before you go for it and remember above and you wont go wrong cheers WW Wally

Originally Posted by Manuka Jock

I couldn't sleep , trying to figure out why my Celtic ancestors needed a knotted rolling pin

Me darlin' Annie, LOML, tells me it's so the wives can impart a knot with the rolling pin to their miscreant husbands head when they sneak into the house in the wee morning hours after being to the local pub

....so MJ, get some sleep!

Originally Posted by Ed Reiss

Me darlin' Annie, LOML, tells me it's so the wives can impart a knot with the rolling pin to their miscreant husbands head when they sneak into the house in the wee morning hours after being to the local pub

....so MJ, get some sleep!

I'm sure we could work up a story about it being traditional to give a rolling pin with a knot in it to a bride as a symbol of an unbreakable bound between two people, and a handy weapon for discouraging late night pub returnings.

Where do you think we got the phrase: "Knot tonight, dear."??

Just a bunch a clever clogs the lot of ya eh

OK so it's a few years since this thread kicked off, and I've been promising a few of the women in my life a rolling pin ever since I did that little demo thing, but I haven't a clue what timber to make it out of.

Any ideas for timber suitable for a rolling pin that won't leave tannin stains in the Christmas Cake icing?

Cheers,

P

I've made a few, mainly from English Oak or Tas Oak.

For the knots I like Fruit trees, Redgum, Meranti, Spotted Gum, Walnut, Purpleheart & Osage Orange. So far I've heard no complaints about them. [fingers Xed]

I've also used Jarrah, Kapur, Oz Ebony and Mirbau, but only for decorative ones... I've no idea whether they'd stain or not but I suspect they will.

BTW, I have had a couple returned for repairs that have separated at the joint. I dunno what they used 'em for, but they certainly put some force behind it! So now, instead of making "one-piece" rolling pins I'm thinking about boring the cylinder to take a steel shaft with the handles attached to each end.

More effort to make, but way easier than trying to reglue a broken one!

No chance of wood juice stain means all light coloured timbers .
Not much of a decorative patten there eh .

At home , the best food wood for no taste or colour leaching into the food , is Kahikatea , native 'white pine'.
In the past butter pats were made from it , as well as the boxes for exporting FernLeaf Butter . Its' hard to get now , tho

Thanks guys!

I'm too tight to go and buy an exotic, so I might just laminate a bit of structural hardwood with some epoxy, turn them, then bung them in the dishwasher for a couple of cycles to get rid of the toxins!

Can't hurt anyone after that can it?

Now lets see... I had some CCA pine round here somewhere......

Cheers,

P

http://www.freerollingpinplans.com/

Here... I think this explains it....

Mike... from Canada.....

Originally Posted by Donnie

Ok, I admit it... being Canadian, I'm too dumb to figure out how John Engstrom laminated his blank to turn the rolling pin as displayed at:

http://www.mnwoodturners.com/gallery1.html

I'd like to turn one of these myself so I'm asking you smart folk from down under to explain it to me. (Please use small words so I can understand.)

Donnie