Wood Magazine 14 by Larry Clayton

Author:Larry Clayton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Wood, Home and hobby woodworker
Publisher: Meredith Corporation
Published: 1986-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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Here's your chance to be creative and to impress that special lady at the same time. You can make any number of interesting designs from one laminated blank. If you like small-scale, quick-to-make projects, you're gonna love this one.

Note: You'll need some thin stock for this project. You can either resaw or plane thicker stock to the correct thickness or special-order it. See the Buying Guide on the opposite page for our source of thin stock and other supplies and tools.

MAKING UP THE LAMINATED BLANK

1 Crosscut '/n"-thick pieces of walnut (A), maple (B), and bubinga (C) — or any combination of woods you choose — to 6" long each. Rip the walnut to 1", the maple to Vz", and the bubinga to Vx". (We ripped ours on the band saw.)

2 To clamp the pieces together, start by drawing a straight line across a piece of %" plywood. Cover the plywood with waxed paper, and drive several small 1" nails about Vz deep along the marked pencil line.

3 With one edge of the walnut against the nails, glue the maple to

the walnut. Pinch the two pieces together, and drive nails along the edge of the maple to "clamp" the pieces as shown in the photo below. After the glue dries, pull the

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