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Blogging was a pleasure Russ.Well done. Thank you for sharing this build with us.
It's not as obscure in America as you might think (well, perhaps in modelling circles it is). In furniture manufacturing, when we have a panel that needs a veneer edgeband, but is either too small to run through the automatic banding machine or has a curve that doesn't lend itself well to strap clamping, i.e. concave, the best method we've found is to coat both surfaces with a thin layer of glue (PVA) and let them dry. Yup, let them dry to the point that they are no longer tacky at all. You,ve just created iron-on banding. Then, using a hot iron - I used one of the small ones meant for heat-shrinking covering film on model airplanes, but a household iron works as well - apply the banding. The skill required is to make sure you linger in an area long enough to melt the glue, but not so long as to scorch the veneer. I've applied a lot of banding that way and never had a piece fail in the field.I found, by accident, a way to heat set Titebond, halving the time I spend planking. I posted this everywhere I could as I'd never seen it done before. It turned out that in Eastern Europe and some other parts of the world, everyone does it like that. Western Europe and America generally hadn't heard of it either. How strange.
Smithy, sorry to disappoint you, but that base is a bit better than "quite good". It is great. I would never have dreamed of something like you've done, but when I see it, I can't imagine your vessel without it. It is superb. Well done.
Count Australia in with that lotWestern Europe and America generally hadn't heard of it either