Does anyone have a good way of permanently adhering wood to steel?

Factual Questions
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I am making one or more doors for my study. I would like the doors to be wood on the outside and steel on the inside. So are there good ways of making wood adhere to steel?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

Ficer67

2

Glue advice. This To That

3

There are such doors commercially available
one such line (quick google):

Otherwise, I’d tend toward 3M Super 77 - it lists steel and paper, but not wood.

Or google for laminating cement

4

Can you drill holes in the wood, and run bolts through them and into the steel?

5

I would use 3m 5200.

I’ve used it on the boat and it has survived 25 years of extreme use.

6

CTE mismatches makes it especially challenging.

7

Thanks for the good advice - I should have remembered about 3m products. I have used them before…

Of course, I could buy a door like the one that I want, but they are all way too pricey, which is one of the reasons that I want to make a door. And, I thought about drilling through the steel into the wood. This is still a possibility. I still have to consider how I want the door to look and whether I want to go that route or not.

Thanks again guys

Ficer67

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You’d also have to consider the coefficient of expansion. Steel has a range depending on the alloy. Wood also has a range depending on the species and the type of cut. Interesting!

However, people put tile on wood and on steel all the time. You just have to account for the expansion and contraction. I wonder if a type of intermediate layer that would allow the two materials to expand and contract at their different rates would work?