[TheForge] bellows

[Andrew Vida]

xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:
> On 12/21/2010 8:11 AM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
>> Paul,
>>
>> You may be able to bond a strip of solid wood to the edge of the plywood.
>> Back when I used to do some wood work (before blacksmithing) if I made a set
>> of book shelves I would cover the cut edges with solid wood to hide the fact
>> that it was mainly plywood. Of course on a curved surface you would need to
>> heat or steam the strips to get them to bend, that makes it a lot more work.
>>
>> Robert Ehrenberger
>> Shelbyville, Mo.
>> eforge at centurytel.net
> 
> Cut them real thin and stack them and glue them around the rim of the 
> plywood.  No steaming necessary.

	The plywood acts as the caul.  Needs a lot of clamps for that come off 
well where concavity in the strips occurs unless you use a separate caul 
to distribute the clamping force evenly - a good idea in any case.