Thread: Wade & Butcher with walnut/pearwood

Originally Posted by Bart

...Would you mind revealing to us something of your methods for joining those two woods?

I like the spacer and I like the blade. Admirable work. The "scriblings" one the blade are quite original. Another great idea that's new to me, and opens another world of possiblities. I think that could be developed further, specially as a great way to decorate wedge-style blades.
On the 5th photo, I noticed a shim next to the blade. Is it there to make the fit more snugly? Or just a slight color variation in the wood?

Thanks a lot. Yes, the blade is in original conditions. In this case, I didnt do nothing on it (even the honing not ). There is no liner or shim, thats look only at the photo so.

Before the server crash i posted here my first try in this technic.



How you can see, the wood here are closer together. The myrtle I used was softer, than the swiss peartree. So I could use a jigsawblade with a thickness from 0.16 mm. Now this sawblades always were broken, so I used in the end a blade with a diameter of 0.28 mm. Thats why here the glueline is wider.

Sadly my explanation is also now in the server - nirvana. And this with my weak english

Well, you have to cut 4 planks of wood, 2 dark, 2 lighter. Than glue them together, with a sheet of neewspaper between each plank. Use here simply woodglue. After that cut with an electrical jigsaw your scales. Than cut the woods there, where you plan to glue the two different colored woods togheter. Use here a jigsaw blade as thin, as possible and a very slow cutting speed.
Now you have two pieces of wood, each with 4 layers. Now you can seperate with a razor blade (not straight) or an thin, sharp knife the two dark wood blanks from the 2 light. The only thing you must do now is to glue the darker wood on the lighter. Use a strong epoxy with a long harden time (12 hours).