Some folks apply sandpaper to the face of miter guage faces to keep wood from slipping. Try sticky back sandpaper for some of your applications. Otherwise, you might try unrolling a few feet of wide masking tape, flip it over to expose the adhesive, then take a damp cloth that has lacquer thinner in it an wipe the surface, then wipe the same rag on your clamp handles – might leave a sticky residue, and will dry tacky.
Maybe spray some 3M super 77 contact cement ? – JB
“The furniture designer is an architect.” – Maurice DuFrenes (French Art Deco furniture designer, contemporary of Ruhlmann)
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double sided sticky film, available from graphics supply houses.
Some woodworking catalogs (I think Woodcraft may be one) sell friction tape that seems to address your problem.
Woodcraft doesn't seem to have it. But try Lee Valley Tools, item 99K34.01.
Edited 3/12/2004 3:21 pm ET by BenM
>> some sort of a resin - similar (or same?) to what the musicians use on their violin bows.
That's the stuff you want. Gymnasts use it, too. The gymnasts' version might be cheaper than the musical version, but I don't know right off the top of my head where to buy gymnastics supplies.
If you do a web search, rosin might give you more discriminating results. Resin will return a bunch of plastic manufacturing sites.
Edited 3/12/2004 3:11 pm ET by Uncle Dunc
You're on the right track Metod.
Go to a music shop and ask for a small tube of the compound that violinists use to stop the string pegs from loosening - there's a commercial anti-slip compound that still gives under load - this is what it is and what it's designed for.
Don't know how economical it may be.
Cheers,
eddie
(who spent a lot of time without success being taught the violin as a teenager)
Regular old rubber cement from an office supply store. Cheap and rubs right off when you don't want it anymore.
BARGE CEMENT or contact cement Shoe makers use it and it's great for a non-slip surface I bought a bunch of 'Cheapo'work gloves and turned them into great driving gloves. Paint the palms with the cement and let dry later another coat. Don't drive right away (Ya might get stuck in traffic) Stein.
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