From Ryan's email:
The things we do for customers...
So I decided I would try to use some of your record cabinet wood today. We always back our cutaways up with some internal veneer to strengthen the bend. We typically try to match the color of the side wood, but as we didn’t have any Guatemalan veneer on hand, I thought your redwood would be fairly close. So I decided to make some veneer out of a piece of your redwood.
First I found a section that would be good for this but not a lot else. I resawed it down to 1/16” thick by 4.5” by 13”.
Then I had to bend that thin little stuff without breaking it.
Of course redwood is prone to split, but somehow we did a decent job getting it around these crazy bends.
Then I slathered it up with epoxy...
And voila! We’ll wait till tomorrow to see how it all set up. We have to use a fair amount of wax paper to keep the epoxy from sticking everything together, and we use some thin sheet metal to help strengthen the compression of the two pieces together.
