Ideas on how to fasten this together

[Michael]

I'm thinking a lap joint and glue but I'm sure there's a better way. It looks like oak and a basic steam bend.

[DerbyDad03]

A tapered joint would give you more glue surface. I believe that some drums are made that way.

You could also glue up a panel and cut it out as single piece.

You also cut small pieces and build it like stave drum. Make your staves long and then cut out a bunch of them as gifts.

[G. Ross]

Don't forget all those little slits.

[Michael]

Derby,

Those are some awesome drums! For me, the difference is few weeks worth of work on this type of project versus 30 minutes cutting and steaming a 1/2 inch thick piece of oak. I just hope my steam box is long enough; otherwise I'll have to make another.

GW,

I'm going to think of some kind of jig to make consistent, one-inch cuts. Shouldn't be too tough. I need to make about 10 of these little looms for a non-profit.

Thanks!

[whit3rd]

Scarf joint. If you ripped some long thin veneers (so the hoop thicknesss was three or four thicknesses) a big spiral, glued up and smoothed afterward, would also work. Hide glue is traditional, but polyurethane would hold well; with lots of surface area, stability while it dries is more important than strength.

[John McCoy]

Michael wrote in news: [e-mail]:

That would probably work. If you could scare up some copper rivets and put a couple thru the lap it'd look very nice and you could forgo the glue.

John