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by stabilized do you mean acrylic impregnated?

a couple things come to mind that are just common reasoning not experience.

Resawing is possible but will wear pretty good on bandsaw blades I would think. If this is true for the band saw the thickness sanding would either take a toll on paper or plane bits.

Bending may not be an issue other than the clean-up of the over heated acrylic resin.

Glue adhesion properties I have no idea other that it ok for inlay work but not sure about structural joinery

Energy trasmition damping I would assume would be high.

But like I said this is just me appying common reasoning.

Flood it both sides with CA, sand back to just the wood surface. I do this regularly for rosettes of spalted wood and Ziricote back and sides before bending.

Hey Chris, I got your email and will answer here to clear up the presumptive misinformation in this thread.

First I need to know what you mean by "stabilized". The process has been around in one form or another since the early 1950s and is also known as Wood Polymer Composites. WPC includes Impreg, Compreg, Dymonwood, pakkawood and so forth. I think by your descriptions you might be referring to the Acrylized solid wood I produce for the Knife industry and for the electric bass and guitar industry? The term "stabilized" has been hi-jacked and is ambiguously used to mean many applications including flooding with glue as MichaelP suggests. Orginally it is a term used in the knife handle industry.

Let me know and I'll let you know what I know, sir. It might take a day or so to get back to this forum...Larry

Methinks you might think about bending laminated sides.

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