Thread: QLD Walnut and Eucalyptus burl

That's some nifty work there Toni Looks great, you obviously haven't lost the touch somewhere in the move.

I assume you're using CA to glue the blocks together Toni?

no Aquadhere. Never had much luck with Superglue why?
Toni

Sweet

Toni Skew asked for the same reason as I did at TPS there are black lines along the joints of the glue up CA is a common cause of giving it a brickwork effect.
darren

No Darren that pattern I can't clamp it and the dam thing moved and I and a gap and had to fill it with CA. That the only fault with the way I do this is at this time. but it made a few word that was only fit for here.


Toni

Darren got it in one. I rather like the brickwork effect it gives and I was assuming you'd done it deliberately this time... 'cos it is a nice looking pen.

For clamping patterns like that, I have a piece of MDF that has an L-shaped piece of wood screwed to it as a fence. I only build up a couple of layers at a time, and I sit them in the "crook" of the L so I can use other angled offcuts to clamp the work hard up against this "fence."

For some blanks that I build up, I use another L-shaped piece of wood on the other side & end of the blank, with two clamps crossed over each other... one down the length of the blank and one across the width. This only works if all the layers are close to the same width, though.

Still, it's the little tricks like these that make life (and glue-ups) a LOT easier.

Skew heers a thought too, the tannins that are in the timbers would have an effect on the brickl work look as welll

I've always assumed that there's something in the wood reacting with the CA to give the effect. It could be tannins... I wouldn't know.

I don't think it's just the CA penetrating the end-grain, because I've tried gluing up pairs of near identical seg'd pens with CA and then finishing one with CA and t'other with DO or Shellawax. Apart from minor colour variations (to be expected from different finishes) the "mortar effect" is as pronounced across the board. I would've expected it to be a bit fainter on the CA finished pens.

And some woods don't seem to show the effect at all. Well... not as much, anyway.

Then again, that could be 'cos the end-grain of some timbers soak up more than others... or even a mixture of both reasons. Or maybe I'm just talking through my hat... but it's one o' those things I occasionally think about when the hands are busy turning and the mind is in "idle mode."

Skew mate perhaps you need a slight gap and keep adding the glue so it a wide line to fill for more a brick fill like 1/2-1 mm and keep applying the glues. Perhaps your joints are too tight..LOL
Toni

Good job Toni, I find it takes much effort and glue (and mathematical thinking) to make pens like that, Amos, I find I get the pattern every which way, which is very frustrating. Amos

HAHA Amos, I wish that was the case but I cut and glue and hope for the best. I love experimenting this pattern is acutally from my seminole designs and it all straight lines. no hassle easy and nice results
bye Toni

Originally Posted by lubbing5cherubs

Skew mate perhaps you need a slight gap and keep adding the glue so it a wide line to fill for more a brick fill like 1/2-1 mm and keep applying the glues. Perhaps your joints are too tight..LOL

Or maybe I should mix coloured sawdust with my glue and go for a real brickwork effect?

Nar, I think I'll leave it to the masters.

Nice one Toni

Great thread also guys