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   UncleDunc | Mar 04, 2003 11:28pm | #1

   If the inlays are breaking, I assume he's trying to put it on the edge, rather than the face, and it's breaking when he bends it.

   I think the first thing I would try is putting scotch tape on the show side of the inlay and trimming the sides and ends so there was no sticky anywhere to interfere with things. Then proceed as before. Paper veneer tape might be easier to remove cleanly than scotch tape.

   If that doesn't work, maybe a veneer flattening formula, usually glycerine and water, would soften it enough.

   If that doesn't work, some kind of heat bending probably would, but you'd want to be careful of the glue the inlay is put together with.

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   Wil | Mar 05, 2003 05:30am | #2

   If you are only interested in adding some color and/or decoration to your small turned shapes, you might try inlaying "Inlace".  This is a decorative polyester material that is comes in a variety of colors and patterns.  You mix the two parts, overfill the grove, allow to set, turn it flush. 

   I have used it on bowls.  Most woodturning supply catalogs list it.

   Wil

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   Andrew | Mar 05, 2003 06:22am | #3

   Another solution is to use epoxy and to tint it with various pigments. It sounds like that Inlace stuff is pretty much the same, but I've never seen it around, so  epoxy should be easier to find. The one thing to remember is to seal the surrounding wood so that the epoxy doesn't get into the pores and stain everything around it.

   A 3" disc sounds like way to tight a radius to bend around. If epoxy isn't an option then the only other solution I can think of for making them more decorative is to make some fancy laminated blanks and then turn them.

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   Tac4 | Mar 05, 2003 08:45am | #4

   I am going pass along all the information you guys gave me. I had suggested heating the inlay banding but was concerned about glue failure as well.Thanks for the tips.

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   krumy1 | Mar 05, 2003 12:26pm | #5

   Maybe it's something he should do before he turns the duck call. Kind of like a segmented turning. You can get some really interesting patterns that way

   http://www2.fwi.com/~krumy/wwhat/P0000516.JPG

   Steve K