glenn bradley
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I took that approach when I was making jewelry boxes, but it seems nobody wanted 2' x 4' jewelry boxes....I guess I should have designed my boxes to more efficiently use the plywood...
nobody wanted 2' x 4' jewelry boxes.
That looks great Chuck. Maybe I shouldn't sell that lather after allI glued up some plywood scraps, cut it to pepper mill blank size and turned a small pepper mill from it... turned out rather interesting... US made plywood tends to have a few voids, but what we got from Brazil back in my previous life seemed to have fewer.
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Plywood? Pfft. OSB is where it's at, buddy.I tried gluing up plywood scraps to turn a bowl in the manner of Rude Osolnik. It was a less than satisfactory experiment. I used regular old plywood and the soft inner layers combined with all the voids to make a rather ugly bowl. Perhaps if I had used my Baltic birch plywood scraps I would have had a better result. Alas, I didn't.
Never tried OSB but I did turn a bowl from some laminated veneer lumber scrap. It finished okay after eating up my bowl gouges as I think I had to sharpen the gouge with each revolution of the blank. I wouldn't be surprised if OSB also ate the edge off a bowl gouge.
Yeah, it was not very kind to sharp edges. As expected, the bowl was overall a colossal waste of glue and time, but it made for a funny photo to pull out from time to time....I wouldn't be surprised if OSB also ate the edge off a bowl gouge.
Makes me think of a bowl made from straw or rope... it's not pretty but someone would snatch it up if you offered it for sale.