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Corky Long

Post subject: Fun with splinters

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:46 pm

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First name: Corky
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Country: USA
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Man, I thought my back and top joining technique was getting pretty good..... I'd joined a couple of tops using my shooting board easily - and passing the candle test....yay.

Then.... I turned to an Osage Orange back that I'm working on, to build a Sitka/Osage OOO.

wow7-eyes

not only is this stuff hard (good), but it's got some evil splinters. I finally got it joined, but not without some pain and suffering.

Anyone have the same experience with Osage Orange?

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Pat Foster

Post subject: Re: Fun with splinters

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:20 pm

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Location: Spokane, Washington
First name: Pat
Last Name: Foster
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Oh, yeh.

Not too bad, though when I recall a 3" long fir splinter on an old railing that effectively pinned my middle and third fingers together this past summer.

Pat

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WaddyThomson

Post subject: Re: Fun with splinters

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 3:22 pm

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Please take this to the "Pain and Suffering Forum"! gaah

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truckjohn

Post subject: Re: Fun with splinters

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 3:39 pm

Brazilian Rosewood

Joined: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:27 pm
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Location: South Carolina
First name: John
Last Name: Cox
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I pulled some 1/2" Purpleheart splinters out of my fingers earlier this week... I was hand-planing out a shim to fit on top of a trussrod...

Luckily Purpleheart wood is pretty hard and tough stuff... so those splinters pulled back out without breaking off. Spruce and Cedar splinters are much softer and aren't so easy.

Thanks

John

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bill stewart

Post subject: Re: Fun with splinters

Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 4:42 am

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First name: William
Last Name: Stewart
City: Hawick
State: Roxburghshire
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Country: Scotland
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Status: Amateur

I guess we could call you a splinter group! laughing6-hehe

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