bp122
Expert at Jibber-Jabber
Hello all,
A 4-topic newbie here!
I had a a few strips of off cuts that a friend of mine gave me to practise joinery on.
Among the strips, I have a tulipwood piece which is 5 inches wide and 1 inch thick.
I looked at one of the push blocks for table saw on youtube, which was a simple design with two tapered ends on the top and a nice flat face at the bottom.
Anyway, to get the extra height for the handle part of the push stick / block, I thought of cutting a small piece from this tulipwood piece and gluing it edge ways , which I cut and smeared some tool station PVA I had, clamped it upto put pressure on the gluing surfaces and also sandwiched this in between two bits of melamine covered chipboard, to keep them from bowing and used a couple of clamps.
The next day, I came to see how it went, after removing the clamps, I tried to break it (as you would break chocolate)with with little force and it comepletely came apart.
Is this normal? If not, is it the quality of PVA glue I used or the insufficient clamping pressure? would it be tulipwood itself (I had never heard of it until I got it) Or does this kind of joint need some kind of a reinforcement (dowel, biscuit, domino, tenon)?
Please enlighten me.
A 4-topic newbie here!
I had a a few strips of off cuts that a friend of mine gave me to practise joinery on.
Among the strips, I have a tulipwood piece which is 5 inches wide and 1 inch thick.
I looked at one of the push blocks for table saw on youtube, which was a simple design with two tapered ends on the top and a nice flat face at the bottom.
Anyway, to get the extra height for the handle part of the push stick / block, I thought of cutting a small piece from this tulipwood piece and gluing it edge ways , which I cut and smeared some tool station PVA I had, clamped it upto put pressure on the gluing surfaces and also sandwiched this in between two bits of melamine covered chipboard, to keep them from bowing and used a couple of clamps.
The next day, I came to see how it went, after removing the clamps, I tried to break it (as you would break chocolate)with with little force and it comepletely came apart.
Is this normal? If not, is it the quality of PVA glue I used or the insufficient clamping pressure? would it be tulipwood itself (I had never heard of it until I got it) Or does this kind of joint need some kind of a reinforcement (dowel, biscuit, domino, tenon)?
Please enlighten me.