Here’s the piece today. Hard to see the glued joint if it wasn’t given away by the dried glue.
I lightly sanded off some of the excess glue and ran the drill bit through the holes to clean them up.
I test fitted the head piece…
Look! I could make a zoomie. Maybe. Not in the plan right now….
I need a piece of fairly thin stock for the next step in this fix. Those of you who have used a table saw may know that it can be difficult to cut thin slices of wood, as the standard slot size allows even 1/4” thick stock to be swallowed by the spinning balde. The solution is to have a table insert with a narrow slot. The yellow insert is the standard one that with the wide slot allows the blade to be tilted. The brown insert is a custom unit.
The brown insert comes with no slot at all. You install it with the blade retracted fully. Then turn on the saw and raise the blade. It cuts a slot just wide enough and there is no space for thin stock to drop through.
I just thought I’d show that in case there are table saw users who did not know about these inserts.
Some small pieces of thinly sawn stock. I am going to use the one in the forground next.
It is being glued on one end of the octagon piece that split and was reglued. The grain of the thin sheet will be a right angles to the grain on the octagon piece.
Lots of clamps…
I let that dry 4 or 5 hours. It can be seen that the excess glue is still not fully cured. It is safe enough to handel and work carefully at this point.
I drilled the 20mm hole through the thin piece center as well as drilling the 2 holes for the 4-40 screws through the thin sheet.
Next is to similarly cap the other end of the octagon section. For this end I’m using a contrasting wood, bocote.
This end is being done with two pieces butted up against each other. Lots of clamps. Can you see the wood?
It was left clamped for three hours and I trimmed the bocote a little. I’ll drill it tomorrow as well as sand off all the excess.