Yes you can Dick....When you don't have the wood grain running perfectly straight along a particular piece, you can rip the board lenghtwise flip one piece over so that the grain runs opposite on half the board, reglue the two pieces and you will have a single piece again much more stable and stonger than the original. You see, wood wants to fail along the grain line or growth line and laminating with the growth rings or grain offset will minimise this. I hope I explained this well enough. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 7:53 PM Subject: KR> doug fir
> >"by laminating pieces together you can make > it hell bent for strong without adding any weight" > > Where does this info come from? You can't increase the strength of wood > simply by cutting it into strips and gluing it back together. > Dick H > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
