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261697 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2017‑02‑17 Re: Octagon
On 2017-02-16 1:16 PM, Ed Minch wrote:
> GGG
>
> I am working on some vanity legs that are turned from blank made of 8 pie
pieces glued together.  At its fattest, the leg is almost 3” across.
>
> My question - I have the wedge shaped pie pieces cut (with the help of
electrickery) and now I have to glue them together.  The 6” long sample that I
cut demonstrates that this ain’t easy getting al the pieces to point towards the
center so I am worried about the 28” lengths of the full legs.  Does anyone have
a glue-up trick?  I am thinking hose clamps for clamping, but first have to get
all the points in the same place.  I have thought of gluing it half at a time,
then the two halves, but no.
>
> To complicate things, there is a veneer piece between each wedge, so what a
mess
>
> Something like this:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/32096342704/in/dateposted-public/
>
> Ed Minch
>
Never done this - and wouldn't, likely. Doing the glue-up all at once is 
likely to be a PITA, even with the masking tape roll-up trick and 
surgical tubing.
I count 8 pieces + 8 veneers with 2 surfaces each = way too many glue 
surfaces to be brought together all at once. Life is too short. Open 
time too.

A more reasonable approach would have been to glue up 4 square rods with 
veneer between, then cut on the diagonals, insert veneers, and reglue. 
BUT you can still proceed as though you'd done that, more or less. Glue 
up adjacent pairs with veneers between, making square rods. Then proceed 
more or less as above ... without panic.

FWIW
Don

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