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swalker

29/11/2016 10:06 PM

Saving the bark


My wife has an idea to take a cherry slab I have that is about 4 feet
long and 12 inches wide -on the cut side- and do something with it.
Maybe a shelf. Who knows. The bark is on the slab and she wants it to
remain. The only way I can think of is to use a lot of thin CA glue.
Anybody else have a idea.


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swalker

in reply to swalker on 29/11/2016 10:06 PM

02/12/2016 10:45 PM

On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 07:51:39 -0800, Electric Comet
<[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks for the reply

>On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 22:06:52 -0600
>swalker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Maybe a shelf. Who knows. The bark is on the slab and she wants it to
>> remain. The only way I can think of is to use a lot of thin CA glue.
>> Anybody else have a idea.
>
>topic comes up here from time to time
>
>have used resin to do this and used less hardener so it took longer
>to set and had more timme to soak in
>
>this was on some porous oak bark
>
>so it depends on the bark and other things
>
>
>
>

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Steve

in reply to swalker on 29/11/2016 10:06 PM

03/12/2016 10:56 AM

On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 11:07:01 PM UTC-5, swalker wrote:
> My wife has an idea to take a cherry slab I have that is about 4 feet
> long and 12 inches wide -on the cut side- and do something with it.
> Maybe a shelf. Who knows. The bark is on the slab and she wants it to
> remain. The only way I can think of is to use a lot of thin CA glue.
> Anybody else have a idea.

Agreed on the resin/bar finish. The only thing I'd caution you on is to tr=
y to find one with less UV inhibitors-- assuming that one of the things we =
all love about Cherry is how it ages to its warm auburn tone, if you put a=
UV blocker on it, you'll impair or slow that process.

EC

Electric Comet

in reply to swalker on 29/11/2016 10:06 PM

01/12/2016 7:51 AM

On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 22:06:52 -0600
swalker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe a shelf. Who knows. The bark is on the slab and she wants it to
> remain. The only way I can think of is to use a lot of thin CA glue.
> Anybody else have a idea.

topic comes up here from time to time

have used resin to do this and used less hardener so it took longer
to set and had more timme to soak in

this was on some porous oak bark

so it depends on the bark and other things





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