FOUND THAT BOLT

Hi Kiefer. I never thought of doing that . That is a really neat idea. that will keep ‘em thinkng about how you did that!!!!!!!!! I put a bolt and nut in a notched 2×4 just last week. May I borrow your idea?...........Jim

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!

Hi Jim
Go ahead ,but I get to borrow your nail balancer ,real neat idea and a great job .
You are just on a real roll , just watched your egg cup video ,great stuff that you are sharing .

-- Kiefer 松

I’m still guessing and haven’t figured it out yet. But you will post the secret, right?

-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm

This is just good, clean fun! Great idea!

-- Mike - Northern Upper Michigan

You soaked the wood condensed it on one side buy putting it under pressure inserted the bolt and put it back in water so it regained it’s original shape .

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

ANDY
The answer will come in due course .
MIKE
Yes fun it is and I get all kinds of guesses and ideas .
JIM
That may be one approach .

-- Kiefer 松

I think it grew that way.

-- Terry Roswell, L.A. (Lower Alabama) "Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans."

+1 to what A1Jim said… you enhanced the cupping tendencies, drilled & inserted the bolt, then re-dried it.

-- Backer boards, stop blocks, build oversized, and never buy a hand plane--

50 years ago my father would bring home all kinds of brain teasers from work that men he worked with would make. This one i have never seen

-- Norman

Another way is to simply cut the bolts in half and epoxy it together in the middle piece of wood.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Let’s see, you take some binoculars, hold them backwards, look thru them at the bolt, then pick up the bolt with some tweezers . . .

-- Dwight - "Free legal advice available - contact Dewey, Cheetam & Howe""

ROZ
I have seen trees with nails in them amongst other metal ,would be cool to find one and make one like this.
RANCE
I may try that approach
NORMAN
Always another one to figure out.
JIM
Take a good look the bolt is free to slide in a 1/64 oversize hole and is in one piece but good guess .
DWIGHT
Interesting approach and train of thought !
Like back to the future .

-- Kiefer 松

One more time, A rubber bolt :))

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

JIM
I would have never thought of that one .
You know all the angles :))

-- Kiefer 松

I saw one with the (heated) water method Jim mentioned (and totally forgot about making one myself)... I’m pondering alternates (assuming no cutting/gluing) and am stumped.

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