Here I’m trying to bend these 2mm x 2mm Walnut Wales after I had it soaking in hot water with Ammonia for about an hour.
I’m not too happy about how it cracked the outside of it… Perhaps for the next ones I’ll soak them for a lot longer maybe.
I submitted a question to my Model Shipbuilding Group which went –
You should see all the answers. One of them did make sense… which I’ll try next.
I’m soaking the Walnut 2mm x 2mm stock for extra long. Then, I’m going to slowly bend it, but this time I’m going to use a couple of clamps across the Walnut and bend it extra slowly while applying heat to it using an Iron. I was thinking about using my Plank Bender Heater… I’ll try that next.
That’s one thing that I love about this hobby is going through these different types of experiments to see what works…
Have you ever tried Glycerin? It’s used in preparing the stripping for making actual full scale mast hoops. I use to use it when I was doing quarter boards and trailboards for boats.
No… But thanks for the advise!
No but thanks for the advice I’ll give it a try!