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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phuture" data-source="post: 1560716" data-attributes="member: 34181">Sgian, thanks for the detailed explanation, it’s definitely given me food for thought and a much better understanding of what’s happening here. As for providing a solution, I’ll try it with a thin 5mm lipping but if that fails as badly as this effort has, I’ll drop the lipping altogether as you suggest and start experimenting with a round over or chamfer at the edges.One idea that I was originally going to try with this table was bonding it down to a 9mm MDF before applying the lipping. From what you’ve said, it sounds like that wouldn’t have made any major difference anyway.I’ve attached a better photo of the whole table top and labelled where the ply has split. Interestingly, of the 4 sections of ply, only three have split. Would I be correct in assuming that if I was to make the herringbone section from solid strips of hardwood instead of ply, I would run into a similar issue with the shrinkage pulling in different directions and thus distorting the lipping and opening the mitres?</blockquote>

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