Wet Weekend for a Dry Run

It’s been blowing a hoolie all weekend with plenty of rain too, so it was a perfect opportunity to work under cover. The laminating jig is finally finished, and a dry run clamping the Oak laminates produced a reasonably satisfactory result, so no chance to use my, ‘the jig is up’ gag that I’ve been trying to shoe horn into this blog. 🙂

The curving ranks of little Clamp Clones awaiting my bidding
The curving ranks of little Clamp Clones awaiting my bidding
Clamp the template and push the clamps up to it.
Clamp the template and push the clamps up to it.
Laminates ready to clamp
Laminates ready to clamp
Softly softly catchee monkey
Softly softly catchee monkey
Some ominous creaking at this point.
Some ominous creaking at this point.
Home and dry!
Home and dry!
Socket Wrench and wing nut gripper.
Socket Wrench and wing nut gripper to ease the burden on my tired old fingers.

Of course the whole process will be fraught with difficulty once there is glue sloshing about all over it and the jig may not just be ‘up’ it may be stratospheric! 🙂

3 thoughts on “Wet Weekend for a Dry Run”

  1. Excellent jig, Jonnie! If you soak it with hot paraffin, beeswax, oil, petroleum jelly or any combination thereof, the glue will have a hard time sticking. Think ‘mold release’ Cheers!

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