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You'll generate a lot of strips - 18 different widths!
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When done cutting, group them all together, in order of
width. Draw a pencil line over each set so you can regroup
them if you mess them up.
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Arrange them, skinniest of one species next to largest
of other species, and keep going. (or do it some other
creative way!)
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Dry fit them with some pretty good clamping pressure.
Check for gaps in the glue lines, check for visual continuity
(and to make sure you don't have any mixed up). If you
have strips that are less than perfect, you can try to
flip them over, or cut new ones to match.
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Now to glue them. You can see how I do it. Don't skimp
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Glued and clamped. Take extreme care to make sure the
strips are vertically oriented. A slight cant will make
things difficult later! Use as much pressure as you possibly
can put on them. I use the K Body clamps to set and align
them and then the pipe clamps to add pressure. They also
tend to close up any less than perfect glue line gaps.
Let it dry at least overnight as white glue takes a long
time to dry.
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Ta-da! |
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Now, if you're going to use a thickness planer to clean
it up, you need to start with one flat side, so I use
a scraper to remove the glue drops and a straight edge
to plane it by hand till its flat enough for the planer.
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Plane it pretty clean, but you're going to need to plane
it again later, so don't make it too thin!
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