John, any relation to the John Butler Trio? Love their music!jbutler wrote:Ken,
Can you share your procedure for making your own purflings? What do you cut them with? etc.
Thanks,
John
I sandwiched the bloodwood and osage orange between 0.010" black fiber. I used the approach I have used to apply veneers in the past, which is to spread on titebond using a serated or grooved spreader. My spreader is essentially a credit card with a bunch of evenly spaced notches cut in it with a bandsaw. By using this type of spreader, the glue is laid down in consistently sized little furrows. When the pieces are clamped together, the glue spreads out much more evenly than it would if the glue was just dolloped on and spread around with a finger.
I clamp the pieces up between a couple of cauls and let sit overnight. I resaw into strips using my thin kerf fretboard slotting blade on my table saw.
The first ones I did were some wider osage, and for some reason, the outer edge of the fiber developed a few ripples impacting only the last one or two purfling strips. I glued up some thinner osage purflings as well as the bloodwood and never saw the ripples again. Not sure why I got them the first time.
Ken