A bat I made seems to be always falling apart, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I could do, other than use it for firewood.
After I made it, it had 2-3 coats of oil, always had a scuff sheet of it, was well knocked, and never showed any seam marks.
A year on, I noticed a hollow sound while tapping the scuff with my fingers, and removal showed the wood peeling from itself in a narrow sheet. It was glued with PVA, clamped, sanded, oiled and came up fine.
Every time I had a hit with it from then on (without a scuff), it would bring up more delamination. Fix, repeat, same result.
Pictured below is one lot of delamination, which was repaired,
After yet another repair I faced 60 balls in the nets, and this is what it looks like.
I try hard to jam the slivers apart and push glue into the gaps with .9mm wire, but without breaking wood off it's hard to get glue deep into the seat of the crack, and the older glue jobs appear to be opening up as well as a heap of new ones.
What would you do?
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Topic: Delamination - when do you give up? (Read 6201 times)