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Titebond II or Quick & Thick?

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Jim Bennett

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I’m making a decorative bowl that is made up of several layers of laminated plywood. I used Titebond II to glue the laminations together, just like I’ve been doing with nearly all my woodworking projects to date. However, the top “rim” of this bowl will be a segmented ring of Padauk. I’m wondering if I should go with Titebond Quick & Thick to adhere that ring to the plywood face, rather than the TB II. The face of the plywood that the ring will be glued to before turning obviously won’t be super smooth, so I thought maybe the Q&T stuff would be better for this application.

Thoughts / comments?

Thanks, Jim
 
You could also turn the plywood surface smooth by making a shear cut with a bowl gouge. You could also do a shear scrape with a bowl gouge, bur my first choice would be to make a shear cut. I don't think that a thick glue joint would be visually appealing.
 
Ron Browning uses a Formica board for glueing his rings to. Quite smooth.
He gets them from a counter top sinks cut out scrap free.

I’ve seen his demo a couple of times. He reuses the boards quite a few times and has some lineup marls scrbed on them to help in gluing the ring or ring parts in the correct spot.
 
I'm not sure that the Tightbond Thick & Quick will leave a thick glue joint - just that it is a thicker viscosity than the other products. I think I'll try to get it as smooth as I can with a "sanding board" and see what it feels like. In the mean time I'm going to use that T&Q glue on some test wood to see exactly what the resulting joint is like. I've never used the stuff, but have acquired three small bottles of it. Since the edges of plywood are pretty porous, that's where I got the idea of that Q&T version of Titebond.
 
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