Recently, she asked about a wood ring made by yours truly. OK, where do I start? Need all the details you can share. TIA.
One of our new high school turners, who has some home based woodworking experience prior to turning, is gung ho on turning rings, but he doesn't want to use the metal base. I gave him a chunk of pistachio that looked real interesting and he's been working on that, but any single grain-oriented ring is going to crack at some point. In gluing up 'plywood' blanks out of hardwood, how many layers would be necessary, do you suppose? Would gluing up 2-3 layers of face/flat grain oriented wood at 90 degree offset be sufficient? What if we glued up a sandwich of face-end-face grain layers--would that be more or less resistant to breaking?
Thanks for your help. (And my apologies for poaching SWMBO's thread, Gramps)