WWA Info Exchange

Hey Folks,

It's been pretty quiet around here. I naturally assume it's because you're busy as elves at Christmas time.
So what are you making, as gifts (or decorations) for Christmas, or Hanukah, or Kwanza, or Festivus?

Cheers,
Tom

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Mohandas K. Ghandi

Hope some of you post some neat, small, easy, quick to build items so
I can steal your idea and make something for Christmas.

Duan

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Duan Packard
Kerrville, Texas

dum vivimus, vivamus

These project came from WOOD magazine Nov 2014. Instructions calls for 1/8 inch Baltic birch. I couldn't find anything that thin around here. I used a composite material I salvaged from the back of an old stereo system. It was perfect thickness and light enough. Paint and glitter paint from Hobby Lobby. I copied and reduced the size for some of these. That made for some tight cutting on the band saw. I don't recommend reducing them to less than 80% of the original.

Working on these for my great-nephew. Just need to make a board with holes for axle pegs and it's a wrap.

Here's the finished toy:

Are thoses Spacely Sprockets, or Gogswell Cogs?

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Frank
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A little mass production run here:


pillboxes, if it's not obvious to the younger folks

DR:

How did you produce those perfect involute gears? Pattern routing or ....??

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Cheers - Dennis

with my new CNC router, of course

Just draw them in Sketchup (there's an involute gear plug-in), export to DXF, import to CAMBAM, and generate g-code.

I made copy's of the patterns from the plans (quite a few copy's) and the scroll saw when I made mine a few years ago.
Christmas presents for two grandsons.





I think I found the plans in a WOOD magazine. If you are interested in making some, I'll do a bit of research for you.

Rog

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An ounce of responsibility is worth a pound of State and Federal laws.

I spent most of my money on woodworking
tools and beer, the rest I just wasted.

Matthais Wendel over on woodengears.ca has a template that will generate patterns for you:

http://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/template.html

Please, take a few minutes (days) to look around his website.
There's some very interesting designs, builds and techniques there.

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~Dan.

Hey Dan,

You have a gift for understatement, Matthias himself is a machine! He has been pumping out innovative tools, games, machines, and you name it out of wood, for years. He is very clever and a bit mischievous. Some day, I'm going to make his wooden air raid siren, just for grins!

Cheers,
Tom

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"There is no path to peace, peace is the path."
Mohandas K. Ghandi

hopefully you'll come up with a safer way to make the shaft. I read the article - pushing a block of wood spinning on a motor into your table saw blade really doesn't seem like a good idea.

You should check out his gear design program, if only to see how he did the evaluation copy. Instead of crippling features or limiting the number or runs, it distorts the image, as if you were looking at through a swimming pool. Just about gives me motion sickness.
I really like the panto-router idea.