wooden barn star?

I’d draw it out full size on paper and then, when it looked good enough, I would measure the angles from the drawing and transfer that to my wood. Drawing it out in Sketchup should work also.

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2

I did draw it out in sketchup, it being a 3D object, and it looked great in the software, but for some reason when I cut some test pieces they didn’t lay flat… so I may have done something wrong in the model. I ended up picking up a small metal star for a few bucks and I’m going to measure all the angles to make another go at it, but thus far life has gotten in the way. :)

-- ...scott

If it is not laying flat could it be that your saw is not cutting true?

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2

If it were up 1/8” I’d consider that… but with one of the two points I cut lying flat, the other was sticking up at probably a 30 degree angle. :)

-- ...scott

Yeah, that is a bit much. Hope you can figure it out when you get some time to work on it.

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2

When I do, you can bet I’ll post here what I figure out. A thing that’s not on the internet… we can’t very well have that, now, can we? :)

-- ...scott

Go for it Scott
I have never heart of this before
but we can´t have its ain´t represented anywhere
looking forward to see your blog about the building of the star

best thoughts

Dennis

Should you be cutting your stars at 36 degrees?

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2