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A friend of mine chopped down a walnut tree a few years ago and since he has no fireplace, it stayed in his garden since then.
When i learned about the wood, he gave me two buckets full... and here we go.

It was planned to be a starfighter, but i did not get the angle right, so its a starfighter derivate.
The overall shape is the same, but this one has a smaller forkgap... but it still works.

Basicly, i cut the walnut piece into 4 parts and laminated the upper and lower part together
with a carbon fiber/paper micarta as core.
The carbon fiber mesh and the paper was forced into the shape of the saw-line.
Then i wraped the frame and filled the gaps with epoxy resin.
The i shaped it as usual by sanding
For the finish, i let the wood soak in some clear epoxy resin,
then i resanded and repeated the epoxy treatment twice.
The last treatment i did by rubbing on some epoxy with my hands
(with nitrile gloves of course) and removing all excess resin.
For the final touch, i lightly sanded it with 2000 grit and polished it on a buffing wheel.

The result is not flawless, but its going into the right direction.
Here are the pictures of the final result. I will post some build-pics next.

 

Here are some pictures of the building process.

 

Thank you all.

The initial inspiration for this came from Sharker with his very beautiful V-Predator frames.
I don´t know how he does his cores, but i wanted to try the carbonfiber mesh anyway

 

You are welcome

After the beauty i got from you, i had to experiment with wood again.

Thanks.
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