Hard Maple and Plastic sandwiched centerband

[Wmcullen]

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

 

[Hippie3180]

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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.
View attachment 362517

Once dry, I drilled through the middle with a 1/4" bit...
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...and added to the mandrel.
View attachment 362515

Thanks for looking.
- Cullen

Ingenuity at it's finest, looks cool too.

 

[walshjp17]

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

 

[Woodchipper]

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

 

[derekdd]

What a fun idea.

Turned out quite nicely.

 

[PenCasso]

Thanks for sharing!

 

[FatPat]

Great idea and presentation, Thanks

 

[Wmcullen]

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.