Beard Comb with "Wood-Carta" Comb.

Very cool and creative Bob!

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Hello Bob

This is a very cool idea

I like it

Plywood yeah and so what ?

Thanks for sharing

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Beard comb!!! I love it.
Never fails to amaze me the things that come up on this site.
Out of the ordinary but way cool and going to be fun to make one for my mustache.
Going to add this to my list along with a wood tie.

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Bob, the reason the teeth break is because of the grain direction. If you turned it 90 deg. then the handles would break. What you’ve done is essentially inlaid fiberglass-like in between the layers. A good solution. Might I suggest another approach. Try just 3 plys of just wood. The inner ply with the grain running parallel to the teeth. The outer plys with the grain running parallel to the handle. This might be a lot easier to manufacture. And after the making of the plywood, you might consider thinning the area with the teeth to just the one inner ply. Or better yet, just have the tooth area a single ply. Am I making sense? BTW, nice project.

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Rance,

I knew exactly why they broke – trust me! ;-)

I tried running the grain the other way as well – as soon as the comb dried out a bit SNAP!

The 5 plys are actually my 2nd attempt at this solution – I did try 3-ply, but the comb flexed too much so I went with 5 plys. I’m not sure why I never tried out 4 though. Might do that if I need another comb.

You are making perfect sense – actually you are mimicking my thought processes and trials that I’ve done just about step-by-step. :-)

I found it’s easier just cutting the entire thing in 5 plys and then using my belt sander to narrow down the tooth area – that way it goes from 5 to 3 to 1 evenly.

Thanks for the kind words and suggestions! I don’t thing anything we do should be called “final version” or “perfect”. Especially, the later of the two.

Cheers!

-bob

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Like a switch-blade combo, in case you need to comb yer hair in a hurry.. Good one

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This is really scary. I was thinking of the sanding of the teeth afterwards but did not want to go to the trouble of trying to explain it. That is a real hoot. Hey, I still enjoy all your posts, and I often learn something too. Thanks.

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Thats awesome.

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