Laminated Bridge Cap Construction

[Farrell]

Ron N. wrote:
"And you thought my bridge bending caul was too much work?"

Well, this is certainly much more work, but this is different. Clear?

"I made up a bridge by laminating odd lengths of something like 4 or 5mm thick maple strips one layer at a time, with butt joints staggered from lamination to lamination, in the shape of the bridge and cut it out with the bandsaw."

That is pretty much how I am making this bridge cap. I just cut the width oversize a few millimeters. I slopped on the epoxy just a few minutes ago, laid them up, and ever-so-gently set a big pinblock on top of it and then a couple of 50 lb. buckets on top of that. I just gotta hope and pray that I didn't knock anything sideways and made any of the laminations slide out of position. If that happened, I'll go to just laminating up a block and cut a cap out of that like you described.

Terry Farrell