591 days ago
by degoose |
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Today, as I make my way out to the workshop, ideas are flying around… having looked at the information on lamination design that Scott sent….wow… so many new thoughts are spinning through my head… I had an inkling as to how it was done… but now the technical part is explained…
So, to the shed…..rip, glue, crosscut, glue, crosscut at a different angle and glue again… then sand, sand, and sand some more…
These three boards were made us...
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585 days ago
by degoose |
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This post documents the step by step in creating a 2nd generation board..
Striped board… cut at 50 degrees.
Flip every second piece left to right…
After glueing up the chevron pattern… cut through each down facing [right to left] stripe… at the centre at 25 degrees…
Now flip every other piece end for end and glue up again…
Now cut to shape…
In this case the one on the right…
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556 days ago
by degoose |
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From the last post you would have seen the teaser…Here it is all glued up and marked for cutting into an oval… I also used a little turpentine to enhance the colour and grain…I think the choice of Queensland Red Cedar [toona australis] certainly brings out the angularity of the design…
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590 days ago
by degoose |
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Out of the clamps… and cut at 25 degrees… [through the centre of each chevron going down from left to right…] each other piece rotated end for end…
For those who can not picture this… there will be a video forthcoming.. by the end of the week I hope…
And now back in clamps for the day… out tomorrow and I will see if this goes to the third gen…
Stay tuned…By the way… timbers used Queensland Maple and Purple Heart…
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