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Turn or grind?
--Novice turner here. I'm in the process of making a carriage for a
scale model of an old muzzle loading cannon. I bought the thing at a swapmeet and it came with a "carriage" made of bandsawn Doug Fir 2x8: a really ugly thing! I've found plans of gun carriages on the web (best drawings: USS Constitution) and I'm freelancing one from an agglomeration of ideas. For the wheels I'm starting by laminating two hunks of 3/4 oak, with the grain turned 90 deg from one piece to the other, to yield a rough blank that's 1-1/2" thick and about 3-1/2" dia. I plan to use a compass to lay out center, i.d., o.d., then bore out the center of each, put each roughly bandsawn piece on a mandrel and turn them to final o.d. This o.d. will eventually be 'shod' with a steel 'tire', similar to the ones in this photo: http://www.buytheworld.com/prod8336-...3_8_Scale.html --But turning oak, well, my one or two attempts at turning scrap pieces came out pretty dreadful so I'm curious to learn the do's now that I seem to have mastered the dont's, heh. If it's more or less an impossible task I'm thinking I might get more uniform o.d.s by using a sanding disk on the rotating rough laminations. Any suggestions appreciated! -- "Steamboat Ed" Haas : There's never a tachikoma Hacking the Trailing Edge! : around when I need one! www.nmpproducts.com ---Decks a-wash in a sea of words--- |
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