Ive reamed a wood insert for a seat. Im only left with .100 wall thickness maybe a touch more at the biggest ID in the taper.. Should I go with a bigger OD? What is a good guideline for how much meat should be over the blank?

Thanks in advance
Scott

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Scott
You are going to epoxy the seat to the blank and the skeleton parts to the seat. I think this will make it more than strong enough as they will essentially be one piece if they are properly fitted and epoxied.
Just my .02

Regards
Dave

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Scott
What are you coating the wood with when you are finished?

Its stabalized so was just going to buff it. Is there a chance raw hardwood wood split this thin when oiled/coated?

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The blank type may have an effcet on things also, namely, low wt fly rod or noodle rods that will bend way down the blank into the seat area. You have to watch out for incert grain orientations. I learned this the hard way with an 8wt fly rod with a wood incert machine hooded reel seat. The straight grain was on the side of the rod and when it bent one time it sounded like a .22 round going off and I was hard pressed to find out what broke the shear along the neutral axis was so fine. The straight grain, the straighter the better needs to be oriented up on the top of the rod, just like you will find on a wooden shovel handle, put that straight grain on the side of the rod, no matter if it looks better another way and opposing compression and tension forces go to work on it, more so if the blank bends deep into the butt and pretty soon, like a brigde eventually fails from loading and unloading, the incert shears down the neutral axis.

Hi Scott, if your outside diameter of the blank is relativley smaller than the inside diameter of your insert.i have taken two graphite arbors,reamed the inside to match the outside of the blank.then turn down the outside of the arbor to match the inside of the insert.worked well for me,and dave is correct , if the outside of your blank is close to the inside diameter of the insert.just go ahead and epoxy the insert and the skeleton seat......no fear.

What do you guys put on non-stabilised wood inserts?
I wanting to turn my own.

Robert,

Do a search here and you will get a year's worth of reading!! Everyone has their favorite. I would guess that Tru Oil is by far the most used CA is also popular. Keep in minnd tha oily woods, cocobolo, bocote, rosewoods will not take finishes well due to the oily nature

Mike (Southgate, MI)
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Hut solid bar wax

Raymond Adams
Eventually, all things merge, and a river runs through it..

Ray
Do you mean the beeswax for other wooden items like wooden pens etc?

The wax comes in a bar and is made or marketed by Hutt.
My dad uses it and I don't think it's bee's wax. I believe there
are several different formulas.

Raymond Adams
Eventually, all things merge, and a river runs through it..