I have an old maple bench top in which many of the laminations are partially separated. It appears obvious that I will need to totally separate each lamination and re-glue the top back together. I am not sure how to glue it back together to form a flat or (near flat) top surface. Any feedback or help would be sincerely appreciated. I must also say that the top needs resurfacing. It is pretty scared up from years of abuse. Should I do this with a planer to each strip? Or just put it back together and use a jack plane to resurface? Thanks for your help!! : )
Brian
Edited 8/21/2002 9:58:13 AM ET by klink
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I had an old maple bench top that I gave to my brother. it was 4" thick and 20" wide and6 ft long..one piece of maple. It had wooden bench dogs inlet into the top. The problem was it was twisted. My brother resurfaced it and flattened it using a router and a jig he made. It came out beautiful ( he doesnt read this so I can say that.....)
Klink,
I don't have any advice to offer, but am very curious what others have to say. Recently I screwed up a large maple cutting board (24x28) trying to re-glue and refinish top. If I were doing it again I would seperate each strip and plane the sides clean, run through the TS and take a fresh cut on top, glue up in sections and put through planer and finally put the whole thing together and plane with hand tools. However, if one of those maple strips wants to take a left hand turn after all of that...I'm screwed. Should I put a rod through the end and bolt?
Edited 8/22/2002 6:56:08 AM ET by BG
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