Pretty Great Laminated Rib

[Farrell]

Oh, nothing really. I was just perusing my piano pictures and ran across it.

That was one of my first attempts a making a laminated rib. I think it was 
made with narrow (maybe 30 mm wide) laminations that were pressed in my 
pneumatic rib-to-panel press - one rib at a time. When the glue is on and 
the pressure applied, the whole assembly became quite slippery and 
laminations tended to wander every which way. Usually if I could get past 
the first minute or two in the press retaining the narrow laminations in 
place, all would be fine. But this one apparently waited those first few 
minutes and then migrated when I wasn't looking and dried in that unique 
form.

I thought I had saved that lovely work of art - I wanted to use it in my 
rib-building class as a statement of encouragement - "don't give up even if 
your first attempts are unsuccessful - we all have our flops before 
success!" I never did find it.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
>> A golden oldie. Nice - yes?
>>  Terry Farrell
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> Make a wish...
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> Ok, I'll bite. What horrible revisitation triggered this trip down memory 
> pit?
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> Ron N
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