Hard Maple and Plastic sandwiched centerband

This is cherry with a centerband of hard maple of 2 kinds of dollar store plastic.


I found these inexpensive chips and wanted to try a centerband "sandwich" of:
hard maple
blue translucent
blue opaque
blue translucent
hard maple


I wanted to use CA glue, but the chips slid all over. I could have used glue boost I suppose, but I don't own any.
Instead, I drilled thin holes through each piece separately, applied CA glue, and put them on a toothpick, shish kabab style to dry.


Once dry, I drilled through the middle with a 1/4" bit...

...and added to the mandrel.


Thanks for looking.
- Cullen

Wmcullen said:

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This is cherry with a centerband of hard maple of 2 kinds of dollar store plastic.


I found these inexpensive chips and wanted to try a centerband "sandwich" of:
hard maple
blue translucent
blue opaque
blue translucent
hard maple
View attachment 362514

I wanted to use CA glue, but the chips slid all over. I could have used glue boost I suppose, but I don't own any.
Instead, I drilled thin holes through each piece separately, applied CA glue, and put them on a toothpick, shish kabab style to dry.
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Once dry, I drilled through the middle with a 1/4" bit...
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...and added to the mandrel.
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Thanks for looking.
- Cullen

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Ingenuity at it's finest, looks cool too.

Best use of 'Tiddly Winks' I've seen so far. Well done, Cullen.

Great idea. What kit? Good to show creativity when the chips are down.

What a fun idea.

Turned out quite nicely.

Thanks for sharing!

Great idea and presentation, Thanks

Mass producing these centerbands
I figured out a few things while making lots of these hard maple and plastic centerbands for holiday gifts.
(See above for overview.)

Two sandwiched centerbands fit at a time on a toothpick during gluing.

I cut small squares of 2x4, drilled a guide hole, and used a coutersink bit to create gaps so glue wouldn't attach.

This little black spacer was 3d printed, although it could also be made from wood with a coutersink bit.
The key feature is that it won't get glued to the centerbands even if a little CA leaks out because of the conical indent on either side.

(I tried to make a long stack of these, but it did start to bow, so I limited the mass production to two per clamp.

But I have plenty of small clamps and made about 10 at a time, hanging the clamps vertically to dry.