angboy
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I got two of the laser cut inlay kits recently and tried to work on the first one and totally blew it. I used thin CA to glue the pieces in place, and then went over basically the whole blank with medium CA and let it sit for 2 days. Well when I went to use my barrel trimmer today to get rid of the excess length, as soon as I started, it blew out. It was clear that it blew out along the joints where the smaller pieces were glued in, so I think it's my fault for not making sure things were glued well both to each other and to the tube well. I've never used CA glue to glue any kind of blank to a tube, so I was a little leery of that. For some reason I feel better using something like gorilla glue, it just seems like it'd coat and cover better. But I knew that wouldn't work for gluing in those inlay pieces.
The second blank that I have is VERY special to me and I really don't want to mess it up. I think it'll be a little easier anyway, because there aren't any smaller pieces so close to the end of the tube as there was with the first one, but I still wanted to find out what other people do and how they glue these in to make sure they don't ruin one like I did.
(And just for the record, I don't want anyone to take this question as any sort of criticism of the kit maker, and am purposely not saying where I got it from for that reason- I am totally confident that I am the one at fault here, so I just want to learn what other people have done...)
The second blank that I have is VERY special to me and I really don't want to mess it up. I think it'll be a little easier anyway, because there aren't any smaller pieces so close to the end of the tube as there was with the first one, but I still wanted to find out what other people do and how they glue these in to make sure they don't ruin one like I did.
(And just for the record, I don't want anyone to take this question as any sort of criticism of the kit maker, and am purposely not saying where I got it from for that reason- I am totally confident that I am the one at fault here, so I just want to learn what other people have done...)