A plywood question
mike recchione
>I normally wouldn't bring up the subject of plywood in polite company, but we're all adults here, and I need help. Besides, there's hand tool content in here as well.
I'm building a small aditional workbench for my garage shop, and I decided to go with a variation of Drew Langsner's "chairmaker's workbench" from "The Chairmaker's Workshop". The top was intended to be four 2'x4' quarter sheets of 3/4" oak plywood, laminated to make a 3" thick top.
I bought all the materials a few months ago, then got really busy with work and didn't have time to complete the bench. I brought the plywood into my basement from the garage about three weeks ago, and since then a couple of the sheets (stored totally flat, on my workbench) have warped significantly. I didn't think plywood was supposed to do that, but there you go.
My question is this: If I were to go ahead and laminate them, clamping them flat on my benchtop, is it likely that the two warped sheets would cause the entire top to warp, or is there a reasonable chance the top would stay flat once it was glued up?
Hand tool content: The bench will be used to do carving and chairmaking with handtools in my garage during nice weather. I always wanted a workbench in front of a window...sigh.
TIA,
- Mike