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One day I'll have time for these.
All of them require no screws, nails or glue.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday November 15 2020, @03:48AM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday November 15 2020, @03:48AM (#1077501) Journal

    The most recent exception is I'm making 1/16" hickory veneers for laminating together into the plywood of a skateboard. Skateboards are generally 7-ply slow growth Canadian maple. That was all fine and good when I was 130lbs and couldn't buy my own cigarettes but it's less so nowadays. Hickory's heavier than maple but it also takes a lot more to break by applying force perpendicular to the grain. Bamboo is as well and it's lighter than either of them but it flexes way more than maple and way way more than hickory.

    Are you thinking of a composite laminate? Seems like a combo of alternating bamboo and hickory or maple might give a nice combination of strength, stiffness, and weight. Also, what are you thinking of gluing it together with? Apparently, normal wood glue is too rigid for something that flexes a lot - so YouTube tells me.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 15 2020, @01:40PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday November 15 2020, @01:40PM (#1077562) Homepage Journal

    What I'd really like to do is a composite bamboo/bois d'arc deck but lumber prices have gone insane over the past six months and I have a shitload of hickory already on hand from hardwood flooring that was on the stage we ripped up at the church. So I'm spending time ripping 1/16"x1"x12" strips and laminating them together instead of spending money. Two or three hours of saw time gets you enough for one 1'x3' veneer, I want at least nine.

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