[Shop-talk] Gluing an awkward shape

[Peter J. Thomas]

On 11/25/2015 1:21 PM, Peter J. Thomas wrote:
> 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 
>
You could also use fast setting epoxy and just hold it together.