Chestnut Posted December 17, 2018 Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 2 minutes ago, G Ragatz said: Very misleading profile pic - you look way too innocent for that! Lol i never specified which side of the plastic wrap i was on..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodenskye Posted December 17, 2018 Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 I think you are at the point of you need to buy a good bandsaw and resaw your own veneers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolmetscher007 Posted December 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 I am trying to make tubes for drums. Here is a video that shows exactly what I want to do. In case the video does not start in the correct place, at 0:49 into this video, the two men discuss these birch plys, and then a few moments later you see o0ther guys cutting them on a table saw... then later the glue up. I apologize for not providing the end-goal in my original post. I was a little fixated on the details and didn't think to provide any big-picture goals. Columbia Forrest Company, the company that makes PureBond plywood that you all have seen at home depot I'm sure, makes a product called "Europly" plywood. This stuff is made up of 11(1/2")x or 15(3/4")x 1.27mm thick all-birch sheets/veneers/plys. Literally all I am looking for, is to be able to buy 30-60 of these birch plys before they are glued up into plywood boards. This should not be that hard to find... but it is. Ha ha ha. I am waiting to head back from Columbia Forrest to see if they will work with me on this. My guess though, is that they won't go for it, and it will likely be because their EuroPly plywood is not made the US, and it may not even be made by them. It kind of feels like they are trying to compete with the "Baltic Birch" plywood that is so rapidly gaining popularity, so they are just buying plywood from somewhere in Finnland, Russia, Estonia... and repackaging it as "EuroPly" here in the US. We shall see, I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G Ragatz Posted December 17, 2018 Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 2 hours ago, Chestnut said: Lol i never specified which side of the plastic wrap i was on..... Guess I hadn't considered all the possibilities Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdwerker Posted December 18, 2018 Report Share Posted December 18, 2018 There are plywood tubes available in quite a few diameters with a 5/16" thick side wall.They can be up to 96" long. Trying to build a form and glue up a tube will gobble up materials, funds and time so fast it would make your head explode. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted December 18, 2018 Report Share Posted December 18, 2018 I know squat about drum construction, at least plywood drums. Does the cross grain orientation make that much difference in a cylinder? That shape supports itself in ways that flat sheets or rectilinear boxes can not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpt life Posted December 18, 2018 Report Share Posted December 18, 2018 4 minutes ago, wtnhighlander said: I know squat about drum construction, at least plywood drums. Does the cross grain orientation make that much difference in a cylinder? That shape supports itself in ways that flat sheets or rectilinear boxes can not. YES!!! The cross grain makes a huge difference in drums. Think of rigidity (or at least consistency of rigidity) in three dimensions around the core circle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnG Posted December 18, 2018 Report Share Posted December 18, 2018 Have you figured out how you will make the form and how you will clamp it up? Seems to me this would not be easy without one of those fancy machines they have in the video. In the video you linked to, they use 3 ply (3mm) sheets and 1 ply (1mm) sheets to get 9mm and 7mm final thicknesses. Can you use just the 3mm or 1/8" ply to get to 9mm and 6mm final thickness? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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