Thin wood strips want to curl when the glue wets one side.
Woodworking tip: Use water to wet the other side, keeps them buggers straight …
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Good tip Robin! But the weighty ‘Borg Press’ wasn’t having any of it. In this case, the planks came out fine. 
—mike
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Yep, sure did 
Could be handy if you ever get into a situation where brute pressure can’t be used.
I had a heck of a time trying to get veneer “planks” glued to a boat model,
like this one but mine isn’t quite so pretty.
The thin strips curled up making it impossible to glue more than one at the time.
The I started cogitating and the rest, as they say, is history. Piece of cake …
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That is gold!! Nice one! Also, the cube looks nice. Look forward to seeing the finished product!
A question if I may, how do you get the larger lettering on your post?
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What exactly is a carriage return? Not heard of it before… 
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Old school lingo for ‘return’ key.
Wikipedia: “In computing, the carriage return is the name of a computer character that directs a printer or screen display to return to the start of a line when printing or displaying text. The origin of its name is as you’d expect: it told a teletype that its print carriage (the cylinder that held the paper) should return to the beginning of a line. On some systems, such as older Macintoshes, it also creates a new line, like the line feed character.”
—mike 
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Green arrows: The Carriage
Red arrow: The handle/lever used to return the carriage out to the left so that the typing hammers lurking in that oddly shaped opening, Blue arrow, would slam against the paper at the start of the next line. The lever also caused the paper to advance by one line so that typing occured at the next line (line feed).
There was also usually a sound effect, PLING, when the carriage returned.
The modern version:
The angled arrow symbolises line feed + move insertion point way out to the left
The Typewriter, performed on stage with a grand orchestra
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Did you check the crowns on each stir stick?
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Them were the days, without spell check. 
Today’s computers, are a real big help to me.
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Huge savings on Tipp-Ex and the correction ribbons …
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Thanks! That’s what I found, I was leaning more towards what you meant in your original post, i.e. a character or what to type. Or is it just hit ‘return’?
Since I can’t figure it out, I guess it’ll be your trade secret! 
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A-ha!
Well, I think I’ve got it now, but I feel a bit dumb…
FSR I thought he mean hit ‘return’ and then ‘=’ and then the content of the post…
Oh well! Thanks anyways!
Now for something more relevant;
I wrapped up the build phase of my Takom Tiger 1 Mid with Otto Carius. I’ll be slapping some paint on it later today (I hope!).
And Mr. Carius himself:
Link to my (semi) review here on the Takom Tiger 1 Big Box thread.
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The importance of a proper explanation
If you ever need to align a rifle scope this video explains how to do it:
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=I gotta try this
Cajun 
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