[TheForge] bellows

[James Davis]

why couldn't you add a piece of hardwood top and bottom of the plywood edge and trim to the contour of the plywood, sandwich fashion. then when you put your nails in zigzag putting the nail in the hardwood. seems this would also add some needed weight


Jim Davis
 
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> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:48:00 -0500
> From: osan at netlabs.net
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] bellows
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
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