Thank you Mac I will try your suggestions, Perhaps you are right, that a bigger surface glue joint could take up the play/slop in this concept ? You know the funny thing here is that My Wife suggested the same things, but for different reasons, (He suggestions were for appearance/comedic appeal. not structure.)
Thank you. C.A.G. ----- Original Message ----- From: "MWF" <mwfos...@earthlink.net> To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 3:15:06 AM Subject: Re: Project idea, trail and Error. Curtis, Perhaps you could try cutting your pieces such that their glue surfaces are at a "diagonal", like this: (Sort of like you sometimes see some country-style small slabs of wood cut from a tree branch and sanded down to serve as a small cheese cutting board of a message painted on them - making them a sort of sign - like sold at "Cracker Barrel" restaurants.) / ### / ### / ### / ### / Only with more of a skew for the cuts. This will GREATLY increase the surface area of the "glue joints" - which should help a lot in reducing the flexing. Cut your pieces at a 45 or 60 degree angle to the end grain - then stack and glue them all together. Another way to try is to get some high quality (many thin laminations) thin plywood. Cut it into strips a bit wider than your glue-up - and as long as the cane/stack of pieces. After gluing up all the stack, rip it down the center - yielding two "halves" the length of the cane. Now take those two halves and glue them to the long strip of plywood and let dry/cure well. This will create a "ply spine" down the length of the cane - most likely reducing the "whipping" as you turn the shaft. If you still have more flex than you like, repeat the rip down the middle of the cane - only this time rip it so the nest ply strip is glued at 90 degrees off of the first strip. You should now have 4 "quadrants if you look down the shaft/cane from either end. You will now have "almost" two backbones down the cane's length. Now finish turning the shaft. You should have a lot less flex now. Let us know how it "turns" out. (Pun intended!) Mac -----Original Message----- From: CURTIS GEORGE Sent: Jun 25, 2016 3:47 PM To: Legacy-Ornamental-Mills Subject: Project idea, trail and Error. Hello Everyone. Here is a project that I just wanted to try out, I glued it up over the week, and let it fully dry, today I started the turning. What you are looking at is, end grain used on a walking stick, with an All thread rod as the center/spine. of this rod. THe idea is/was to use end grain wood for walking sticks, the rod would add strength and make it easy to add on the handle and foot, once done. I had a lot of scraps in the old storage bin, Teak,Mahogany,and some kind of neat looking pallet wood for central america. all cut into squares and drilled out to fit onto a 3/8" steel all thread rod. The problem quickly was I,D,d . the center flexed a lot when being turned on the Legacy, even at the slow speed of the Legacy, the wood flexed. I tried to use my center support brace to keep the flexing, but sadly after trying every trick that I could think of , the flex won out. This is much thinner than I had planed, The end grain looks really nice, but I need to find a better material for the spine. Dose any one have any ideas??? Any and All ideas are (as always.) welcome. Have a Great weekend. C.A.G. [image/jpeg:IMG_6923.JPG] [image/jpeg:IMG_6924.JPG] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com . Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
