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   Riverprof | Jan 11, 2007 03:31am | #1

   Another look at it:

   http://www.jcblack.com/Speedster/WoodCars/39Lagano/WoodCars1939Lagano.shtml

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   JMartinsky | Jan 11, 2007 05:34pm | #2

   Dear River,
   Pretty nice! I made this in my basement with a razor knife, some "scary sharp" chisels and a couple of them #4 hand plane things.....

   http://www.jcblack.com/Speedster/WoodCars/24Hispano/WoodCars1924Hispano.shtml

   Nice post!

   John

   
   

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   Edited 1/11/2007 9:34 am ET by Jmartinsky

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   Riverprof | Jan 11, 2007 07:17pm | #3

   John,So you went the 'traditionalist' route? I did my Lagonda almost entirely with a Dremel tool!Rp

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   pzaxtl | Jan 11, 2007 09:36pm | #4

   I made mine out of edge-joined toothpicks biscuited to keep the panels flat.  All of the curved surfaces were shaped with a dental pick.  I plucked a hair from my wife's head to apply the finish, laying down one thin line at a time.

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   Rich14 | Jan 11, 2007 09:59pm | #5

   Oh, no! Not biscuits!

   Don't you know biscuits add no strength to an edge joint? If you properly joint those toothpicks and glue them with correct clamping pressure, then apply enough stress to break the glued-up assembly, you would see that the toothpick wood itself breaks before the wood-glue joint breaks.

   Besides, if you sand the surface of the glue-up before the biscuits shrink back to their pre-glued size (they swell with glue), you'll get dimples in the surface of the toothpicks overlying the position of the biscuits. It looks like sh*t. I hate that

   Sheeesh!

   Rich

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   Riverprof | Jan 11, 2007 10:29pm | #6

   Can't you read? He said that he used the biscuits to keep the panels flat! Not to add strength!I'm still trying to find the setting on my biscuit jointer that lets me put a biscuit in a toothpick.

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   Rich14 | Jan 11, 2007 10:59pm | #8

   Of course I saw that. I knew he was using the biscuits for alignment. But one can never repeat too often the wisdom regading glue joint strength! Nor the warning about ugly, ugly biscuit dimpling. Especially in toothpick construction!

   Believe me. He'll thank me for this!

   What!? Your biscuit jointer doesn't have a toothpick setting? Obviously, you don't have the latest FestFool machine. It uses 00001 size biscuits. Any woodworker without this new tool is obviously just a rank amateur, not worthy of even discussing joinery. It costs $5000, but it comes with its own special storage/carrying case and a miniature dust collection system no larger than a ball point pen, capable of 900 CFM at almost infinite static pressure.

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   Riverprof | Jan 11, 2007 11:05pm | #9

   Rich, this discussion is absolutely ridiculous. Let's return to sensible things -- like building a Lagonda body out of tulipwood.Please!!(Actually, I'm surprised that more people aren't make car bodies using canoe strip tech.)

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   JMartinsky | Jan 11, 2007 10:47pm | #7

   You commercial guys!John