D.L.,
You can't imagine my relief....I was so mad at myself for making what I thought was a major blunder
that I was tempted to bandsaw the body in half.
Now
that would have been a mistake!
Yesterday I set about slicing off a piece of ebony for a new fretboard,
and the blade was a bit dull and went off on it's own,
wrecking the thickness of the piece I was cutting.
So, I managed to get it cut off without totally
wrecking the whole thing except for thickness.
I sanded it until all the defects were out, which brought it to around 3/16" or so.
It so happens that I had a piece of ebony laying around from an old fingerboard that I sliced up for headplates.
It was a little under .100" thick, and if glued to the remainder of the other slice, would yield
a nice thickness, and being that it was going to be bound, nobody would ever see the glue line.
I decided to experiment with polyurethane glue for this.
I don't like the setup time of the stuff, and the cure time is pretty long.
However, it produced an amazing joint. The stuff creates a really thin joint, and with the ebony it was completely invisible. The sandwich is really stiff, perhaps stiffer then the a piece of ebony that thick.
I was impressed! Not sure what else I would use it for, but for this it was great.
Don Williams38613.3675925926
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