Post #412260 by kiwishaman on Wed, Oct 8, 2008 3:02 AM

On 2008-10-07 13:44, surfintiki wrote:
OOooooohh! Very nice. I'd love to see how you're cutting the abalone shell, and glueing I presume. What kinda glue?

Well, just using a cut off wheel to get the rough shape, then shaping with the bench grinder, then finer shaping with the dremel tool with small sanding drums. Simple really
Then glueing with epoxy - there was a wee bit left over from building the boat - and I have been using it for my ill-begotten plans :)

Chewing gum would work tho - so long as you chewed it until it was soft and gooey, then placed it ever so carefully into the space, pressed the shell into it, then left it till it was hard. . . I wonder if it would soften again at body temperature? Any takers? :)

I do believe they used to use wax. Where they got that from I truely do not know - the native bees of NZ dont really have hives?? Any one know about that one?

Cheers Surfin and Jock, and you too Ben :) (been doing some sanding today :) )

TFL

KS