10/02: Finished Amateur Board Press
Well...It's finished...but it's functionality has yet to be tested. We are slightly concerned because our measurements were far from spot on, and some of the wood is hopelessly warped. Since we need to wait for the right veneer wood (1/16 maple) in order to start pressing the actual board, we were hoping to do a practice one first with maybe some cheaper veneer. That's for later.
Today we attached all of those vertical peices to the horizontal 2"x10"s with both wood glue and screws (not sure if we needed both but better safe than sorry right?) and unfortunatly the peices don't fit exactly like a puzzel but we assume it'll be good enough for our science so we'll leave it at that and go ahead with the next challenge: the locating of veneer and the gathering of heavy things (to apply pressure to the press and bend the board to it's shape)