Gary Beasley
Member
My eldest son was over for Thanksgiving and we brewed up a new way to make segmented blanks. I had gotten a scroll saw and this sparked a whole slew of what-ifs.
We finally gravitated toward cutting curved patterns in the blank and gluing in contrasting colors of wood and squeezing the blank back together in a vise until the glue dried. My son also tried out using constuction paper with CA with limited success.
The wood veneer did best with titebond type glue as the water in the glue softened the wood for bending to some degree.
As we were playing with this I got the bright idea of cutting some 1/4" plugs from some red oak and putting these into the blank.
The pictures show the blank two side and the pen I made from it two sides.
I started with drilling and plugging the mahogany blank, then cutting the curve on one side, gluing in a purpleheart and a padauk strip, drying it overnight, then on the adjacent side cutting a curve and gluing in a sandwich of 2 padauk strips and a wild cherry strip.
Turned it, polished and finished with CA.
We finally gravitated toward cutting curved patterns in the blank and gluing in contrasting colors of wood and squeezing the blank back together in a vise until the glue dried. My son also tried out using constuction paper with CA with limited success.
The wood veneer did best with titebond type glue as the water in the glue softened the wood for bending to some degree.
As we were playing with this I got the bright idea of cutting some 1/4" plugs from some red oak and putting these into the blank.
The pictures show the blank two side and the pen I made from it two sides.
I started with drilling and plugging the mahogany blank, then cutting the curve on one side, gluing in a purpleheart and a padauk strip, drying it overnight, then on the adjacent side cutting a curve and gluing in a sandwich of 2 padauk strips and a wild cherry strip.
Turned it, polished and finished with CA.
