Weedys Pin Oak question.....

[JP Pope]

I saw my first Weedys about 10-15 years ago and thought it was cool but never really appreciated the way the call was made until I started turning myself. My question is how did Mr Weedman laminate all of that acrylic?  I am trying to wrap my head around this but have not come to a conclusion. Being from South Texas I am not very informed on his history. Thanks for the heads up gents. I would love to own one of those calls for my collection but I may be a little late to the party seeing most go for north of $800

[Jeremy @ Havoc Calls]

Here is one that I turned in tribute to Mark. This was one of his original blanks. I am in the process of making several in the laminated acrylic, but in my own style of call.

[dogcatcher]

Back when I was in shop class we had some projects out of Plexiglas, using colored and clear.  We glued it together using acetone, to the best of my memory we wiped one side with acetone and let it sit for a few seconds and the clamped it together.  We never turned the glued blanks, but we did drill and create flower looking stuff with a Foredom type tool.

I am sure Plexiglas would machine pretty good, but have never done it on a lathe.  I think I remember a penturner using colored sheets of Plexiglas to fabricate a pen blank, which is one reason I believe it will machine okay on the lathe.  I have milled Plexiglas on mill, it cut pretty good but it is MESSY as can be.  To fast and it will glue itself to itself. 

Marvin

[James Strickland]

Being from South Texas I am not fond of his history.

Well now my interest is piqued... What's in his history that you don't like.  I don't know anything about the guy.  Other than his calls are really expensive.

[JP Pope]

Being from South Texas I am not fond of his history.

Well now my interest is piqued... What's in his history that you don't like.  I don't know anything about the guy.  Other than his calls are really expensive.

Fond was not the correct word to use in my statement. I am very interested in his history as a pioneer in acrylic call making. I am just unfamiliar with him as a call maker. Sorry for the poor use of wording I never was very good with my words when typing 

[James Strickland]

LOL... Thought maybe he was some kind of an outlaw or something.  Haha.  Sorry to get this thread off-topic.

[Aaron at Wingerts Woodworks]

Not sure what he used, but I think that if I were trying to glue strips of acrylic together I'd use some Weld-On acrylic cement. 

My laser engraver has a new product that uses 1/8" and 1/4" cast acrylic sheets in its production, and he has a lot of little waste pieces.  Believe me, it has crossed my mind to try laying up a blank or two! 

[JP Pope]

Aaron if you ever want to get rid of some of that stuff I may know a guy interested in doing just that. 

[COsby]

I'm going to try this acetone method.

When I was looking for a way to glue 2 pieces of acrylic together i asked my father who quickly replied "acetone". Then explained it to me. It sounds legit but it wasn't a tested method that I knew of so I went with some acrylic cement (thanks again Aaron).

However, I have some scraps now that I'm going to try out.

[dogcatcher]

Plexiglas will dissolve in acetone, when the 2 pieces are connected and the acetone dries, they will be one piece.  I still have some that was glued together over 50 years ago. 

Marvin

[dogcatcher]

I was talking with a machinist today, and he said to use Weldon 4, this stuff.  http://www.amazon.com/Weld--Acrylic-Adhesive-Applicator-Bottle/dp/B0096TWKCW/ref=sr_1_1?s=industrial&ie=UTF8&qid=1427494582&sr=1-1&keywords=weld+on+4+acrylic

Marvin