Good evening;
Simple question: can you glue a vernier on a red oak board bow? If so, what can you use?
Thanks,
D
You mean on the back of it? Not unless you cover the veneer with something like fiberglass cloth and epoxy. In that case, you can use just about anything.
Really? I thought that veneer backing was one of the many "strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold."
I have only used fiber glass drywall tape and brown paper for backing redoak board bows, but that is just because I was too cheap and lazy to go buy veneer. I would have rather used veneer.
How is it different than laminating a 1/8" slat to the back? Is veneer too thin to keep from splintering?
I say try it. If it doesn't work, you can always throw it in the "cre-ma-tor-eum." I am sure Sam McGee wouldn't mind the heat.
Gotta love that Robert Service.
You can't use a veneer by itself for a backing. The grain is almost always too violated. What I'm saying is that you can glue a veneer to the back of a bow, then use fiberglass cloth and epoxy as a backing. When you saturate the fiberglass cloth with epoxy, it becomes transparent, so you can see the veneer through it.
Yup. Love Robert Service. :-)