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Bryan Milham:
Most modern glues can handle the acidity of woods, but Olive and some other woods like Teak (and it's substitutes) are so full of natural oils thay can be very hard to glue.

The best method is to make sure you've de-oiled extremly well using white spirit or meths before applying  glue to them.

Nige7:
Thanks dr4g0nfly, something else to keep an eye on then :)

I had wonderd about sandwiching a piece of olive between two pieces of a darker wood and turning some light pulls or spirtles.  Am I likely to meet problems if the grains of the two woods are a little different in density?  I guess it will be a little like cutting end grain twice on each revolution though if I ensure the laminations run with parallel grains that should make things easier???

Nigel

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