What a great save! It's a good thing you know how to do woodworking as opposed to the client. I guess I would have offered to supply the materials myself just to avoid the problems of someone not knowing what you were going to have to do to that wood. He made your job three times as hard for you.
DRF On Friday, July 21, 2017 at 11:58:36 PM UTC-7, LILtwisted wrote: > > It all started with the customer sending me a picture in a text. I sent > him a quote and heard nothing. > > > 4 months later he said it's a go, and he said he would glue the material > together. I told him to make sure there was paper in between the halves so > it would be an easy split after milling. I usually use a thick paper like > what is found in a brown grocery bag but enter problem number 1, he used > printer paper. Then it was size time. I drew a little bit on the chalk > board with some real numbers and set off to make it happen. > > I started by rounding off the stock. Then with a 3 in classical bit to > make a rim to meet the square ends and then decided on a 3 inch Barley with > 3 starts on a 9 inch pitch. All was going well until I heard POWWW! > > Yup, instead of gluing the entire surface of each board, they used a > zig-zag drizzle and hoped the clamps would squeeze it around. Didn't work > and now I have pieces flying off this thing. > > So I started Super Gluing the cracks and made a pattern by pressing a > piece of paper onto the flat left behind by the mishap. > > Then transferred it onto a board, cut it out, fit it and then glued it. > > Then back to work on the Barley and then finish off with the classical bit > to clean off the other side of the glued on piece. > > Next I trimmed the ends with a straight bit as far as I could and ended up > looking like this. > > Then the fun part, busting it open with a shingle hatchet! > > You can see the poor glue coverage in the seam. In this case it helped > me. If it was glued solid, the thinner paper used would have caused too > much resistance and it may have started to pull some wood apart. Luck for > me, it was a crappy glue job. > > Now we have to cut the ends off without touching the outer edge with the > band saw. If you put a screw on the flat side, it will hold the wood at an > angle. I don't like to change the table angle to do this because I have > the saw at 90ยบ perfect and don't want to re-adjust it. > > This will hold the stock on enough of an angle to cut the plug and not mar > the outer edge. > > Here is the finish product. Notice all the super glue was milled away. > After about 20 min of sanding and running the back paper off through a > joiner, they are finished. The blocked ends will be added at the job site. > > So don't worry if things start going south. Glue pieces back on if you > can or make new pieces and re-mill them. It's only a mistake if you quit > before you fix it. You just got to get better at fixing little issues. > Oh, and I'm not going to trust their glue joints anymore. LOL > > Mike OK > > > > -- 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.
