Total greenhorn, be gentle

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Ah, araldite, I've heard of that and know of people having used it to succesfully repair motorbike fairings as well though never used it myself.

The wood will be a structural part of the ring either side by side with silver, or as a sandwich structure with the silver ring in the middle.

Thanks for this, gonna search for and order some of the glue as I am currently repairing a set of bike fairings as well so it will go tp good use!

Dennis as usual has given the best advice. On the wood adjoining silver there is no way I would trust a glue to join the ends together. You would either have to solder a pin onto the silver and drill into the wood and glue or set the wood into the ends of the silver with a bezel which is quite advanced. I’m assuming that you’ll be turning the wood on a lathe for the sandwich version with sheet silver in between? That could either be glued or glued and riveted. I’m a fan of rivets!