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Thanks. I plan to cut the final shape with a router. I assume the glue won't be too tough for a router bit?

I need a glue that sets rigid to keep the plies perfectly flat once removed from the press. I've not experimented with too many different types of glue so far, but a lot of traditional wood glues (PVA's) don't appear to set rigid but rather retain some flexibility, which will then allow the wood...

Hi Jacob, I've tried stacking under weight but it doesn't seem to work. I've been putting the wood in between to 6mm glass lapping plates (guaranteed flat by the manufacturer - Axminster), and then standing a bucket filled with stones (approx 30KG in weight) on top of this. This doesn't seem to...

Thanks Ian. My main issues are that I'm working with very thin plies (mostly a 3mm core ply sandwiched between 2 or 3 veneers on either side that are each less than 1mm in thickness). There's a tendency for warping so I need a press that'll hold the piece perfectly flat until the glue...

Novice woodworker looking for a quick and easy clamping/press solution for making table tennis bats which will require me to be gluing thin plies of wood together and hold them flat until the glue is cured. I’m working with A4 size sheets of wood and stumbled across this on Ebay. Do you think...

I had mine sitting between two sheets of 6 mm glass, with a bucket of stones sitting on top of the glass to apply clamping pressure. The bucket probably weighed about 20-25KG which I though was quite a substantial amount of weight, but even so the thickness of the wood ended up about 8mm. When a...

Thanks for the response. I've tried normal Gorilla glue which I believe is a PU glue. The issue I had with this is that the glue foams and expands whilst curing, meaning that the bats became overly thick (although more clamping pressure might solve this issue to stop the glue pushing the plies...

Thanks Phil. I'll look into this as an option. I also stumbled across fish glue as a potential candidate if you know anything about that (mainly used in musical instrument making, I believe)?

I'm a novice to woodworking. I have a passion for table tennis and I want to start making my own table tennis bats. The basic concept is pretty straightforward. A "core" wood which is maybe 3-4 mm thick (most likely balsa due to its light-weight) and then a couple of veneers of a harder wood...