OK, I make some wooden banks, with various figures on the top. The
figures are routed out of half inch plywood, in fact the entire bank is
half inch plywood. The part at the bottom of the figure looks something
like this.

/////////////////////////////
*****//***************//
*****//***************//
///////***************///////

The top runs the width of the money box. The two "legs" are inset
to accept the 1 5/16" tall sides. The "feet" at the bottom fit into
slots routed into the box base. Once the "feet" are glued to the slots
in the bottom, the sides are glued in, along with the front. Then a
piece is glued on the top in front, and another on the top in back to
create the money box. The back piece is slightly undersized and comes
out to allow remove of the money.
On the masters I use to rout out the figures, I've got the base as
part of the bottom of the figures. However, I have a separate base I
use to trace around when making a new design, so I will know the final
height, when I'm making a new master.

Here's the thing. I'm going to change the height of the sides of
the money box from 1 5/16" tall to 2 1/4" tall. I already know how I'm
going to do this. But I'm curious about how some of you guys would do
it. For those of you that don't know, I do not use a computer to
develop any of my plans. At the most, pencil, ruler, maybe paper, that
and my mind are all I use.



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(J T) wrote:

OK, I make some wooden banks, with various figures on the top.
The
figures are routed out of half inch plywood, in fact the entire bank
is half inch plywood. The part at the bottom of the figure looks
something like this.

/////////////////////////////
*****//***************//
*****//***************//
///////***************///////

The top runs the width of the money box. The two "legs" are
inset
to accept the 1 5/16" tall sides. The "feet" at the bottom fit into
slots routed into the box base. Once the "feet" are glued to the
slots in the bottom, the sides are glued in, along with the front.
Then a piece is glued on the top in front, and another on the top in
back to create the money box. The back piece is slightly undersized
and comes out to allow remove of the money.
On the masters I use to rout out the figures, I've got the base
as
part of the bottom of the figures. However, I have a separate base I
use to trace around when making a new design, so I will know the final
height, when I'm making a new master.

Here's the thing. I'm going to change the height of the sides of
the money box from 1 5/16" tall to 2 1/4" tall. I already know how
I'm going to do this. But I'm curious about how some of you guys
would do it.

I'd post a message to rec.woodworking saying I was curious how someone
else would do it ...

Sat, Feb 2, 2008, 7:51am (EST+5)
(Lobby*Dosser) doth posteth:
I'd post a message to rec.woodworking saying I was curious how someone
else would do it ...

But I'm not curious about how someone else would do it, I'm curious
about how some of you guys would do it.



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I went ahead and did it, just the way I'd planned; it came out
exactly the way I'd figureed, right on. Now just waiting for the glue
to set



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(J T) wrote:

I went ahead and did it, just the way I'd planned; it came out
exactly the way I'd figureed, right on. Now just waiting for the glue
to set


brads?

Sun, Feb 3, 2008, 3:42am (EST+5)
(Lobby*Dosser) doth query:
brads?

Nope, it's mine. But now that it's done, it gives me some new
ideas, so I'm gonna redo it from scratch.



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(J T) wrote:

Sun, Feb 3, 2008, 3:42am (EST+5)
(Lobby*Dosser) doth query:
brads?

Nope, it's mine. But now that it's done, it gives me some new
ideas, so I'm gonna redo it from scratch.

clamps?

if it was a complicated piece, or one where I needed to document the
construction to someone outside of my shop I'd use CAD. for something
small and straightforward like your banks I'd draw it full size on
paper, measure the changes from the drawing and validate the final
dimensions in the actual material.

Sun, Feb 3, 2008, 10:05am (EST-3) doth sayeth:
if it was a complicated piece, or one where I needed to document the
construction to someone outside of my shop I'd use CAD. for something
small and straightforward like your banks I'd draw it full size on
paper, measure the changes from the drawing and validate the final
dimensions in the actual material.

LMAO The only way I'd need to document this, or anything, for
someone else is if I was selling plans. And, if I was, I wouldn't use
CAD, I'd just draft it up. For this, and thing a lot more complicated,
I don't draw any of it up, I just go out and start making it. A lot of
it changes as I make it, or I see ways to make it faster, easier, and/or
better, while I'm making it - then I make another. I'll probably go out
in the shop later (got some things I've got to do first, and places to
go), and just start cutting, then gluing. To validate the measurements
I'll just use pieces that I know are already cut to size - for something
else - and use them as checks. No prob.

Before I start anything like this, I think about it. Just close my
eyes, and think about it. First, I think what I want. Then how I can
do it. Then goover it all in my mind, and figure what will work best.
I visualize this stuff - have been told some people can't. When I cut
is usually the time for measurements. Sometimes, like I said, figure
out a better way while I'm working on it. Plans? Plans? Don' need no
steenki' plans. Besides, if I had plans, someone could steal all my
ideas LMAO



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