A commrade has fallen let us pray.

Re: A commrade has fallen let us pray.

Ernie Miller

>Looks pretty but that is not going to work. I have an antique one oade out of burl and it has some problems like that. make your plane regular and then add the scales to it for looks if you are going to add wild grained wood like that. Your side walls will end up a litle wider but it will look sharp. I'm sure you would rather it go bad in your hands than a couple weeks later in a customers hands and have to replace it.

Re: A commrade has fallen let us pray.

steve knight

>I should have laminated like I usualy do. I have not used burl that much and I did not know it was so weak. both sides cracked. I was wondering why the iron was going in so easily (G)

Could it be fixed?

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Super glue... Epoxy...

Tough luck there Steve. All that work

vlparisian in cold and wet Houston

>isn't for naught. Turn it into a table lamp and sell it on E-bay. ;>)

Thanks for sharing that lesson. It just may save one of us from repeating it.

Victor - in Houston

Well, I dunno Steve.....

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>I've been thinking of this plane for several days now, and it seems to me that surely you can think of a way to "save it". How about if you take the burl sides and mount them to a substrate, than remount them to the plane? At least the beauty of the burl would be seen, tho no longer a direct part of the structure, just more of a decoration.

Todd O.

Thats a better solution than my wise-crack.

vlparisian - Houston

>Will the burl, now cracked, take any more abuse in the attempt to rip it thinner or milling it out for affixing to a proper substrate?

My guess is that glue applied to the crack and then drawn into the crack in a vacuum environment (bag?) would make a passing repair. - Does anyone here have experience with VPI operations?

After the burl is stabilized, you should be able to mill it out or rip it down to cover the new plane sides nicely.

Good night

Victor

Re: Thats a better solution than my wise-crack.

steve knight

>yes it is a shame to chuck it but the plane is fully built you start ripping it apart and trying to save the wood and the plane gets smaller and thinner and life gets harder (G) the sides are cracked 1/2 the way through on both sides. shes sicking and going down fast.

Re: Could it be fixed?

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>The little bit of work I have done with burl is pretty much the same discovery; it has no grain orientation, therefore no strength. You can make beautiful turnings out of it because they do not have to support anything. Like was mentioned, it could be used as a veneer on the outside of a plane.

Re: Thats a better solution than my wise-crack.

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, well Steve, not being one to give up none-to-soon, and don't mind fighting up hill battles, I 'd put it on a shelf for the time being, and perhaps a solution will pop intoy uor head one day. Just to darn pretty to merely chuck into the scrap bin.

I know for you that Time is Money therefore you can't spend much Time fiddling with it right now. If nowt else, it would be a god piece to keep about the shop to show folks that "you can't win 'em all".

Certainly would make a nice paperweight for your desk too.

Did you learn any lessons from this? If so, than it was not all for nothing. I'm sure you'll find a use for it, but in the meantime it's still pretty to look at and I'd keep it around the shop.

T.O.