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Turned and Finished in Letter Opener form. 

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Laminates Glueing up and Yipes! Stripes!

Some of the items we make are from laminate wood.  Laminating is process in which you take several layers of thinly cut wood.  Each piece of wood is then coated with glue and compressed until the glue is dry.  We call this laminate the “bendel’s” after retailer whose signature logo is brown and white stripes.



 You can see on the end grain how the glue squishes out.  This edge is later cut off to make it square (give it a flat surface)

On the long end you can see how it will look after it is cut.

This is how it looks after finishing and assembling the pen parts.