Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "FG42 vs M1 Garand: 2-Gun Action Match" video.

  1. 0:22 either they were really trying to save wood and use the veneers most efficiently with little work, or they fucked up. for durability, laminated wood like that should be glued with the fibres not all parallel, but ideally alternatingly slightly diagonal to the adjacent layers to make the resulting board incapable of breaking longitudinally without a significant area of glue joints needing to fail and/or a lot of wood fibers being broken (wood has a strong longitudinal fiber structure with the fibers only weakly stuck together so that it's easy to break parallel to the fibers and hard to break across the fibers). I don't know the specific process of making these stocks, and I would imagine that the normal efficient method would have been to glue together big boards and cut several stocks out of each, but one way to make better stocks with diagonally crossing fibers (while probably not wasting more material, but probably requiring a bit more work) would have been to glue each stock individually from veneer sheets cut into sort of triangular/trapezoidal shapes with the fiber running parallel to one long side of the triangle, and the veneers flipped alternatingly so that the parallel fiber edge would be on the left, then on the right, then on the left etc.. that would result in a stock that's still primarily strong longitudinally, unlike normal 90 degree cross-glued plywood, to primarily insure that the stock won't snap off sideways, but is also peobably something like 10 times harder to crack longitudinally than a fully parallel-glued stock like the one in that picture. well, for the FG-42 a triangle drawn around that short stock would probably result in too aggressive an alternating angle on the veneers, the resulting angle would be better on some of the guns with normal full rifle stocks that the germans also made from this laminated beechwood at that time. a 15-20 degree angle between the fibers would probably be ideal.
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