@KenB259
You have the maple core, the green veneer, and the checken fillets (what I previously called "pennants").... what wood are the end caps ?
I think I understand the way the construction of the blank goes. . But something is not altogether clear ......
You use chechen blanks and glue the green veneer totally surrounding them, right ? .... Then you cut the corners off, making the fillets, which are of triangular cross-section and now have green veneer on only two sides.
You glue the fillets into the grooves in the maple core and take off the excess fillet material, returning the segmented blank to a square cross-sec.
But .... I don't understand why, in the very first picture, the green veneer is not double thickness ..... am I missing something ?
Or maybe it actually is double-thickness ... but it only appears single-thickness after the re-squaring that has taken place. . (sawdust in "gap")
I CAN see that, as you turn the blank round and down to size, that the doubled-up green veneers will separate into single thickness as the maple core appears between the fillets. . But to start with, there should be two thicknesses of green veneer all down the "diagonals" .... I think !
That's because each of the eight fillets is shrouded in a layer of green veneer (except on the outward-facing surface).
I can sure imagine how much fun it must be to see the final pattern emerging as you turn the blank round and down to final size !!
Great work, Ken !!!
