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It has been a while, but I finally found my way back into the shop. I have had a couple of projects hanging over my head and I decided to just finish them and move on. I can’t say that this is how imagined the little truck turning out, but i am pleased with it. Making a small vehicle is something i won’t do again anytime soon, making the smallest pieces out of wood proved to be difficult in most cases and impossible in some. there were lots of little details that couldn’t be fashioned in a toy of this scale without the wood shattering. It is beyond my skill set at this time. My next truck is going to be about 2 feet long so there is going to be more potential.
-- www.robneves.com
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Dudley
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posted 43 days ago
Nice truck. I like it. BZ
-- Dudley Young USN Ret.
Karson
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posted 43 days ago
Thats a great looking woddy.
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stefang
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posted 43 days ago
Another really nice piece. Amazing detail work. Talking about working with small pieces, I wondered if you have a scroll saw. If you don’t have one I would suggest you get one. With it you could make very small parts with some of the very fine blades available. Of course they can’t do everything, but the are capable of doing a lot.
-- Mike, American in Norway
Loucarb
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posted 43 days ago
Great looking truck.
Steve Good
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posted 42 days ago
I think it looks great at this scale. It’s always fun to add more detail but in this case the contouring you did on the pieces make up for any lack of detail. Nice work.
-- Steve Good, http://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com
ND2ELK
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posted 42 days ago
Great job on your truck. Very nicely done. Thanks for posting.
God Bless
tom
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Paul
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posted 42 days ago
I like it, did you make the wheels or buy them, If you bought them what is the source?
Thanks
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romansfivefive
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posted 40 days ago
HI Paul
I altered store bought wheels to fit the project. I started with 1.5 inch wheels that I bought from workshop supply http://store.workshopsupply.com/catalogue/index.php?cPath=341_702_372
They were too thick for the look I wanted so I made jig to make them thinner. I wanted them about 3/8 of an inch thick instead of 1/2 inch, so I dirlled a 1.5 inch hole into 2 separate 1.75 inch strips of baltic birch to a depth of 3/8ths of an inch in one strip and 1/16th on the other. I put the back of the wheel into the 1/16th inch hole, placed a 1/16th inch spacer about a 1/4 inch on either side of the wheel, then clamped them together. I threaded the scroll saw blade inbetween the spacer and the wheel then cut the wheel on the scroll saw.
When they were the right width, I drilled little holes to simulate the gaps in the rims of an AA.
The last thing I did was to use a router bit in the drill press on low speed to slowly open up a larger rim opening. the wheels on the picture I was using looked like the sidewall of the tire was much smaller so I wanted to thin that out.
-- www.robneves.com