[LargeFormat] Wooden Field Camera Jigsaws (was: re: A most useful manufacturer...)

[philip Lambert]

Clive, sorry about your camera kit. Was that an Ebay deal?  Maybe you can
sue somebody
Evostik resin W is an easy to use old-established wood glue which comes
readymixed and lasts for ever in the bottle. I have given up trying to clamp
the two components being glued as the process of tightening the clamps seems
to displace the parts. Possibly I need better clamps. Instead I lay the two
components on the kitchen table and put a weight on top (Webster's
dictionary). It soon dries.  If I am lucky the whole outfit gets gets stuck
to the table. As to cherry wood try out the glue on joints that would be
concealed when the camera is used, so that any visual side effects of the
glue won't matter. Normally you don't see the glue line, assuming you wipe
off surplus glue when still wet. Joints which will carry real weight might
have fine countersunk screws inserted into pilot holes drilled through both
parts just before gluing, so that the stress isn't all on the glue. I have
used brass screws this way in the past, even filing the point off before
final insertion, if the screw were a trifle long for the job.  Wooden
dinghies used to be ?still are?  glued and pinned together. Do they make
boats on your part of the river? Or wooden chairs? Chair makers have a way
with wood.  I envy your ability to work in metal. Welded monorails?
Philip

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From: "Clive Warren" <cocam@cableinet.co.uk>
 A camera just arrived in the post, yep, it's wood and  they dropped it from
the aircraft on the way over from the looks of
 it. It was going to be the main part of my latest 6x17cm project but > has
been trashed. Sigh....... Am well set up here for metal work but
> not wood.  What sort of glue should I be using on the cherry wood to
piece it all back together?
>