5 mm Square black lines

[andersonec]

Does anybody know where 5 mm square black lines can be sourced? I can find up to 3.4 mm at places like Original Marquetry and others but they don't seem to go any larger, odly enough there are 5 mm square Ebony lines but much too expensive for what I want to do.

Andy

 

[PAC1]

Could you make your own by dying some beech?

 

[Baldhead]

Could you make your own by dying some beech?

+1 I remember reading somewhere that beech coloured with black Indian ink looked just like Ebony.

Baldhead

 

[marcros]

i have a nice, brand new, lie nielsen stringing thicknesser that you can borrow if you decide to make your own and give it a try out.

African Blackwood would probably be a bit spendy so you may well be looking at dyeing- i wonder whether you could dye or ebonise a mahogany or sycamore. I am sure that i have seen both used in the past for lines. At least they would have a fine grain.

I have some dye too, if you do not.

Edit, I would need to check whether 5mm would go through it. I tried it tonight and the gap is smaller than I thought it was.

 

[user 19915]

what do you mean 5mm square black line,s any photo,s can i printer make them ect if so ill ask my mate

 

[marcros]

It is stringing- lengths of 5mm x 5mm wood. The cross section is square

 

[undergroundhunter]

I have found some 6mmx6mm http://www.originalmarquetry.co.uk/category_Lines_and_Stringing_1.htm if its any use.


Matt

 

[andersonec]

Thanks guys, looks like I will have to try and make my own, I have some dye and will have to see if it will penetrate deep enough into the wood.

I have found some 6mmx6mm http://www.originalmarquetry.co.uk/category_Lines_and_Stringing_1.htm if its any use.

Matt

Matt, I have previously seen those but they are ebony and at over six squids each it is going to cost me too much, I need 12.

Andy

 

[whiskywill]

How about using a 3.4mm and a 1.5mm and a smidgeon of glue to make it up to 5mm? http://www.restexpress.co.uk/cgi-bin/ca ... aBLFL-pack 10

 

[nanscombe]

How about squirting a tube of black mastic into the groove then trimming it flush? :lol:

I suppose you could cut a 5 x 5 mm channel in a bit of wood and fill that to make lengths of black rubber, though I doubt that would be of use to you.

I actually did a bit of that recently to try and stop a small leak between some tongue and groove boards in my workshop roof. :wink:

 

[undergroundhunter]

How about 5mm thick black acrylic cut into strips?

Matt

 

[andersonec]

How about using a 3.4mm and a 1.5mm and a smidgeon of glue to make it up to 5mm? http://www.restexpress.co.uk/cgi-bin/ca ... aBLFL-pack 10

It will still only be 5 mm on one side and 3.4 on the other.

How about squirting a tube of black mastic into the groove then trimming it flush? :lol:

I suppose you could cut a 5 x 5 mm channel in a bit of wood and fill that to make lengths of black rubber, though I doubt that would be of use to you.

It is going on the edges of a box so a rebate will be routed on all edges and the square lines stuck on and mitred at the corners

How about 5mm thick black acrylic cut into strips?
Matt

Too shiny....

Andy