Really nice. I have never been brave enough to attempt segmenting on a slimline. I'm sure your dad will love it, lol, if he actually gets it.
Looks good. If I can make a suggestion and get yourself some roof flashing. Most home centers carry it. The reason is because it is a shade thicker than soda cans and you will see the aluminum better. Still need to roughen it with sandpaper but you do not have to worry about the painted cans and that stuff showing through iof you do not strip it. Love the segmenting though. keep it up.
Sorry there was to be a question - best adhesive for use for aluminium to wood bond? I considered araldyte which is my normal go to for tube bonding but thought from comments that CA seems to be what was being used.
Blanks is currently laminated and curing ( firmly I hope ) with CA.
Playing at model engineering I have quite a few thicknesses of aluminium just never considered it before, the things you learn on this site save soo much time ( and create so many more questions ) .
thanks Ian
I do alot of segmenting with metals and aluminum is my favorite because it turns well with ordinary tools. Never had any luck with CA and stopped after this disaster. I glued up this entire blank and got back to it about 3 weeks later and just touched the segments and they fell right off. I never use CA again for segmenting dissimilar materials. I have preached many times here that my go to adhesive for segmenting work is Systems3 T88 epoxy glue. I will on occasion use the 15 minute stuff but all that does is drys a little quicker but with all epoxy glues it drys but does not cure for about 24 hours and that is where patients comes in. I always wait at least a day or even 2 days when gluing blanks. I have right now 12 pens on the bench in various stages of completion or experimentation. Hopefull by next week my back will allow me to get back in the shop to work a few of these. With using that epoxy I can easy tint the color I need also. CA drys hard and brittle. Epoxy will remain flexible which helps when drilling too.
I really need to go back and revisit this blank and finish my design with it. It was going to be special.
Thanks for the rapid reply. I was surprised when prying the paper scraps off the blank that the end started to come clear but the faces visible were smooth and totally uniformly CA coated. More CA and as the laminations will be held on both sides I am hoping all will be wellI use CA glue to when I am segmenting with aluminum. I am not sure it is "the best", but I haven't had too many issues with it.