"Mike Brannon" wrote in message
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Greetings group, I was wondering if anyone has had any trouble with epoxy
glue and white oak. I'm building several laminations here of thin white
oak
to form frames, sheer clamps, stem etc. and I recently ran across
something
in print that warned of glueing up oak in such a manner. So far it has
been
trouble free for me but it seemed appropriate to ask the knowledge base at
this forum of their experiences before proceeding at full speed.

I have built a 10' lapstrake dinghy (see www.customware.nl/boats) from
mahogany ply and used various pieces of white and red oak for transom knees
and gunwales. I glued them all with epoxy. I always sanded the oak across
the grain, as advised by Iain Oughtred and cleaned it with an acetone/xylene
based thinner. Never experienced any bonding problem. I even tried to
separate two blocks of oak glued together by driving a nail into the seam.
No luck, the oak broke next to the seam.

Meindert

"Mike Brannon" writes:

Greetings group, I was wondering if anyone has had any trouble with epoxy
glue and white oak. I'm building several laminations here of thin white
oak
to form frames, sheer clamps, stem etc. and I recently ran across
something
in print that warned of glueing up oak in such a manner. So far it has
been
trouble free for me but it seemed appropriate to ask the knowledge base at
this forum of their experiences before proceeding at full speed.

Conventional wisdom is to use resorcinol for white oak, at least that's what
the company that built the frames for a couple of 100 ft Barks did.

YMMV


--
Lew

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"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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Conventional wisdom is to use resorcinol for white oak, at least that's
what
the company that built the frames for a couple of 100 ft Barks did.

Agreed. But resorcinol requires a precise fit and high clamping force.

Meindert