angboy
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I was trying to make a glue-up pen blank (now that I have my new Grizzly bandsaw and can make nice cuts!). I ran into a problem that I should have thought of before I made cuts in a (Irish bog!) pen blank. I was trying for 2 cuts, angled, with each going the opposite direction from the other. I was then trying to glue pickguard inbetween the wood. The first problem I ran into was that CA glue didn't seem to stick to the pickguard, so I didn't have something fast acting that I could use.
This led to the second problem. I had planned to put my glued up blank in a vise to let it dry and compress. But the different pieces make it so that the middle piece kind of squishes out the center. Now that it happened, I can see why and it seems so obvious! It almost seems like I need something that would be square to wrap around the blank, that would then hold it together from the sides, and then apply the vise.
Can anyone explain how you make a glue-up like this? I have done a couple where all of the cuts were just straight across and those are held in the vise fine, but this has me puzzled as to a solution.
This led to the second problem. I had planned to put my glued up blank in a vise to let it dry and compress. But the different pieces make it so that the middle piece kind of squishes out the center. Now that it happened, I can see why and it seems so obvious! It almost seems like I need something that would be square to wrap around the blank, that would then hold it together from the sides, and then apply the vise.
Can anyone explain how you make a glue-up like this? I have done a couple where all of the cuts were just straight across and those are held in the vise fine, but this has me puzzled as to a solution.