"Tana" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Thanks Charlie good suggestion.
> Cheers Tana
Not as good as you might think. Your situation is vastly different. The
turner is concerned with adhering the bark to the wood through or after
drying a turning. You're trying to use bark as wood, if I read you
correctly.
So you've got an easy task with our birch, or cork, or any number of trees
with thick spongy bark, or a nearly impossible one with trees with thin,
flaking bark.
Scarf joints can be hidden behind a surface pretty well, and provide good
gluing area for bark to bark. Bark to substrate is probably easier with the
hot glue crafters use.
Tana wrote:
>
> I have a project in mind where I want to construct some parts of it with
> strips of bark cut to size. These are panels about 6'' by 3".
> I have been able to glue it to some MDF to make it ridgid but I want to
> use just the bark if possible.
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Tana
Natural Edge turners have to contend with this all the time.
Head over to rec.crafts.woodturning and ask, or google
"groups" - rec.craft.woodturning and search of "stablising"
and "bark".
charlie b