I made a crude jig for laminating the outer stem. Here is a dry run to test it out.
Pieces of white oak laid out and ready to glue.
Spreading on the thickened epoxy after letting the straight epoxy soak into the wood for a bit. I've always heard that white oak doesn't glue well with epoxy, but so far I haven't had any problems with it.
My helper took a few pictures while I was glueing. Unfortunately her vantage point is a little low.
Using a mallet and piece of wood to try to get the pieces flattened down and even with each other.
I cleaned up the top side pretty well, but the bottom will be a mess of hardened epoxy when it dries.
I was relieved to find that waxing the jig with paste wax really did keep the wood from getting stuck to the jig. It lifted right off with no problem.
I scraped off the epoxy with a sharp paint scraper, then planed it smooth with a block plane. After struggling with trying to plane the African Mahogany, the white oak was a breeze, with nice paper thin shavings appearing at the mouth of the plane.
Looks like it will fit.
Again, trying it on for size after roughly shaping the outer stem some. Still need to cut the bevels into it.
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