Making Laminated Wood Blanks

Color laminated blanks for woodturning woodworking duck call making and gunstocks.

Making laminated wood blanks.

3 valley road north anson maine 04958 207 635 4445. Cwp produces dyed laminated blanks from birch. Home contact store faq 16 different size laminate wood blocks available. Exotic wood turning blanks.

Click here to visit the store. For weight sensitive applications choose frogwood for extra surface hardness strength and rigidity choose frogwood rhd5. 6 x 6 x 2 8 x 8 x 3 short wood blanks blanks shorter than 10 1 1 2 x 1 1 2 x 6. I have made about a dozen stocks that have all been laminated in one way or another some have been done in two pieces or up to 5 pieces.

Pen blanks over 70 species available. 2 25 x 10 up to 14 x 40 suitable for gunstocks turning bowls game calls peppermills etc. Spectraply blanks offer a unique turning experience that yields high quality vibrant projects. Frogwood is a high quality lower density material that is ideal for general turning and woodworking.

The veneers are dyed under extreme pressure for full penetration of the dye throughout the wood. I use west systems epoxy to glue it together making sure i alternate the direction of the grain in each piece of timber and clamp it together with as many sash clams i can fit on it you don t need heaps of pressure just enough to pull it all together to. The laminated wood is a strong and ideal material for gun stocks. 3 4 x 3 4 x 6 hobby wood very very popular 1 x 1 x 12 bowl blanks also available.

Laminated blanks can also be used for sports equipment like bow material or knife handles and pen blanks etc. This is best suited to blanks larger than 1 1 2 inches square. Guitar neck blanks instrument grade 15 16 x 4 x 30 carving blocks basswood carving blocks kiln dried. This is another technique you can use to trim the overlap layers of a laminated spindle turning blank using your table saw.