Disaster and remedy

[Paul Atkins]

Looks great, and nice curves. I'd be worried about glue failure since it looks like that's what happened originally. What type of glue are you using?

[Matt Owen]

Jim, I can't believe you're just "reasonably happy" with this piece. I think it's gorgeous! If you want, you can send it to me and I will be "extremely happy" with this piece.

[James Combs]

That's a beautiful design. Normally I'm not a big fan of segmented work but this is "above the fold". An impressive save too. That's the sign of a true craftsman... not to never have a disaster but to be able to recover from one. You did this very deftly.

Ditto David's comments. A simply amazing looking HF despite the gremlins' best efforts.

[Mark Hubl]

Wow, nice save. Great looking piece, love the curves.

[Roland Martin]

It's good to back away from a disaster for a bit and regroup, and regroup you did. That is a fantastic design and some very clever work. Definitely glad you decided to give it another go!

[Ryan Baker]

Great piece! Did you figure out what caused the glue failure?

[Jim Maxwell]

Thanks for the nice comments. The original failure, I attributed to satle glue. Well thats my opinion. The glue was a Selleys product similar to your titebond 2. It is a polyaliphatuc, cross linked product. I have returned it to Selleys for appraisal, buut as yet have not had a reply. Interestingly, the bottle had no use by date of batch number. Will be fascinating to see what they have to say.
Jim

[brian watts]

very very nice..

[Dwight McNutt]

pretty amazing what can be done by a skilled craftsman, well done and very pretty.

[Greg Ketell]

I'm really really happy you found all the pieces and finished your HF. That is absolutely stellar!! Thanks for sharing, now I have something else to try to figure out how to do (someday).

GK

[Allen Neighbors]

Outstanding!!! Perfect save!!