tillering opinions - FAILURE!!!!

[gutpile]

ALWAYS lay something across the back to keep your clamp from indenting the back....you got a nice clamp spot on your back now.....if you don't back it ..could pull another splinter on the clamp spot....rawhide bro...rawhide...gut

[n2everythg]

Island - thanks for the link. cant access it from work but will try once I get home.

gut -
Nah. just looks like a clamp mark. I only used enough pressure to push down the splinter. didnt actually dent the wood at all. what you are seeing is the over abundance of glue I used. Used so much it formed in the shape of the clamp head. figured I could scrape it off and wanted to saturate the splinter.

Yea I'm headed toward rawhide and see what happens.

thanks guys.
later
wade

[islandpiper]

I buy larger than needed, thin drumheads, for re-heading banjos.   Then, i save the off cuts.   Pretty handy stuff for lots of things.  Funny how technology has brought us so many really neat things and such neat stuff in the last 25 years or so, but there is no manmade material that works quite like RAWHIDE.   piper