composite block warping

[Farrell]

I don't know that I've really paid all that much attention to it. I put some 
effort into keeping the laminations in alternating directions. Meaning that 
if I plane the Multilam base to target thickness and the lamination exposed 
is the same as the factory side, doesn't seem to me that it would make any 
difference. If planing the base exposes a cross lamination, then I will look 
at my cap material and if it is cross, I will want to bond it to the factory 
side, if cap surface grain is lengthwise, I will glue it to the planed face 
of the base.

Or, of course, if the #$%* base is bowed, then I figure convex side to the 
cap - just figuring that if the plate is going to be expected to have any 
pinblock flattening responsibilities at all, better to have the weight of 
the plate flattening the block out rather than relying on plate screws to 
draw it up.

Probably doesn't make a whole lot of difference with any of this. Just 
mostly my anal thinking that if there is any question about the integrity of 
any of this, hopefully my thoughts might prove to be marginally less bad.

What do you think/do?

Terry Farrell

SNIP
> Bob, Terry, a question. What side of the block are you gluing the cap to, 
> the cut side, or the factory side?
>
> Ron N