[Shop-talk] Gluing an awkward shape

[Peter J. Thomas]

On 11/25/2015 12:44 PM, Jim Stone wrote:
> My cousin just asked me to try to repair a wooden giraffe carving he purchased
> many years ago in Africa.  The statue (I think it is about 1 ft tall) fell and
> broke into three pieces: the bottom of the neck snapped off from the body and
> the body snapped off from the base.  Ibm game to give it a try, but stuck
> trying to figure out how to excerpt proper clamping force on the two joints,
> especially the neck joint. Are the special clamps that might do the trick, or
> special tricks that anyone knows?
Dowels and centering point.  Something like:

http://www.woodcraft.com/Product/153552/8pc-Dowel-Tenon-Center-Set.aspx?gclid=CKvLrpqYrMkCFUYWHwodgbAFDQ