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CueCaps

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Hey Guys,
Has anyone worked with and used STABILIZED or DYMONDWOOD ?
How does it machine?
Will it be too brittle and chip when tapping for 7/16" x 14 THD for inserts?
What are your thoughts and experiences on this wood treatment? Anything, machining, finisning, etc.
 
Dymondwood is very popular for joint caps, Stablized wood is suitable for duck calls, which get pretty rough treatment so I'd say it must be all right as well.

Andy
 
It machines pretty easily. I would recommend being carefull tapping it. It taps cleanly, but you can split it if you get to aggressive. Concerning your ertalyte post, I've never had any trouble machining it or having it split. Might want to check you tooling. Some of the production guys use it for joint collars and butt caps and don't seem to have any problems. I've made some caps out of it, but not spliced. Have made alot of fixture parts and have never had a failure.
Steve
 
CueCaps said:
Hey Guys,
Has anyone worked with and used STABILIZED or DYMONDWOOD ?
How does it machine?
Will it be too brittle and chip when tapping for 7/16" x 14 THD for inserts?
What are your thoughts and experiences on this wood treatment? Anything, machining, finisning, etc.
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Do you have any way of grinding your inthernal threads? This doesn't put as much stress on the wood when threading. Only down side is you need a special tool to grind internals on something that small. I do remember seeing a thead a while back on internal grinding of threads. Don't remember what the thead was called.
 
It finishes fine and taps fine. You shouldn't have any problems if making joint caps with it.
 
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