I think your point is well taken here, but in this particular application, we'll have near-zero stress - and I'll be resawing the wood into 1.5mm-thick laminations - so a dowel or biscuit would miss many laminations anyway. A finger joint would help. But like I say, any minimal bonding for me here will work - all I really need is for it to stick together while I handle it. My point point was not how to make a proper end-grain butt joint (clearly this is not the way to do it!), but rather how effective epoxy can be in an application where I think most others would fail. Perhaps I did not make that clear! Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- Even if the joint is only for alignment, I think I would've used a couple of small dowels or at least a biscuit in the joinery, depending on anticipated stress to the joint and the wood's weight and hardness. JMO. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20061119/1df49527/attachment.html
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