My Mahogany Plywood Plate Project

Thats interesting! Is plywood hard to turn? You would think it would come apart.

-- Terri, Rocky Mountain High Colorado!

It turns rather easily, but the dust from it kind of worries me. I don’t know what kind of glue they would use in the P.I., but I am sure the dust from it isn’t good for you.

-- Mel

wear the breathing gear with this stuff!

-- Pete G: If you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got

The thing that is amazing to me is that you recycled this from some packing crates. I am astonished that any wood, even plywood, of this quality would have been used in a crate. You buy, so called, cabinet grade, plywood at your home center here in the states and you end up with something that has voids all throughout. I don’t see anything like that in this. That is a very interesting idea. I suppose it isn’t much different from the idea of doing segmented turnings. It turned out very nice. Sort of like spirograph for wood turners.

Doc

-- Hey, woodworking ain't brain surgery. Just do something and keep trying till you get it. Doc

Good idea.
jamie

-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Doc, I thought I had answered your post yesterday. Probably didn’t hit the post comment button.
The ply wood comes from overseas, and there are large airplane parts crated up in them. This Plywood has more strength than any plywood you could buy at the big box stores and there are few voids in the internal plies. It is not cost efficient to ship the crates back, so my company lets the employees recycle as much as we can.

-- Mel