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Julian Roslanowski

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Micarta for segmented turnings?
Apr 3^rd, 2014 at 4:29pm

Does anyone have experience using micarta material as part of a segmented bowl? Micarta is a laminated material and can be made at home with colored construction paper and resin. I was considering making my own micarta material with colored paper (for a feature ring). But I don't know if regular wood glue (Titebond) would adhere to the micarta (resin).

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Walt Nollan WR Addict Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 2,002 Hanford California USA Gender: PM 3520A	Re: Micarta for segmented turnings? Reply #1 - Apr 3^rd, 2014 at 8:37pm I've only used epoxy with micarta. There's only one way to find out if a PVA will work,and that's to try it. Or you could use epoxy on the joints.
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Grant Wilkinson WR Addict Offline Posts: 783 Ottawa Ontario Canada	Re: Micarta for segmented turnings? Reply #2 - Apr 4^th, 2014 at 3:54pm Denny Edwards did a bowl with a paper ring accent. The link to his movie is here Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or I'm not sure if this is the process you are referring to, but it can't hurt to look.
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Chuck Beland WR Addict Offline I got my eyes on you. Posts: 12,873 Gender:	Re: Micarta for segmented turnings? Reply #3 - Apr 4^th, 2014 at 4:50pm link will not work with fire fox browser
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Re: Micarta for segmented turnings?
Reply #4 - Apr 5^th, 2014 at 10:38pm

Julian -- I have only had success with epoxy with resins -- and resin infused paper is still resin surfaces. Some use CA to glue resins with small items like pens and bottle stoppers, but those joints are brittle and weak in shear.

Dennis Keeling and Malcolm Tibbetts are both using epoxy in the published materials.

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The above is a bowl from a board constructed with resin infused pen blanks -- and it uses epoxy. Tibbetts is a tight bond user where he can. His wooden segmented work is Tight Bond II.

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Reply #5 - Apr 6^th, 2014 at 9:02pm

Depends on the resin you use, I use Silmar 41, it's a polyester casting resin and glues exceptionally well with Gorilla Glue, if you have trouble with full penetration you can thin the resin 10% with styrene. I don't need to say that this is nasty stuff and all the safety precautions of working with resins apply. It cures much harder than epoxy and can be polished to a brilliant shine.

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Julian Roslanowski Full Member Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 83 Rancho Cucamonga California USA PM 3520B	Re: Micarta for segmented turnings? Reply #6 - Apr 7^th, 2014 at 10:12am Grant, I've seen the Denny Edwards video but wasn't too keen on hold the paper rings with screws. Ken; thanks for the link. Freddie, thanks for the tip. Have not worked with resins before.
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Reply #7 - Apr 7^th, 2014 at 12:16pm

Julian: Sorry about that. I forgot that Denny did not glue the paper.

Chuck: I only use FF and the link works for me. If you want to see Denny's videos, you can try just going to home page and navigating from there. Also, the videos do not start automatically. When the video window opens, you need to click the "play" arrow in the lower left corner of the video window.

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