Woodbloke
Sequoia
...what timber will do. A couple of years ago, SWIMBO requested a 'lazy susan' for the table, using a spinny movement from Ax. I ran something up on the lathe (tricky in itself :shock: ) in a few lumps of oak and then inlaid some bits of wood entirely at random, so the overall effect was quite good and my stock of brownie points increased marginally. What I didn't take into account was that the wood wasn't quite dry enough enough and after about a month, the inevitable happened 
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When the olive oil careered wildly off the turntable the other day, I mentioned to SWIMBO that it was time to write this one off a 'bad job' and make a replacement.
Rather that the lathe, I used a couple of bits of 16mm MRDF squished together in the bag press, but firstly I used a circle jig in the router to cut out an 'ole for the stationary base. More importantly, I used some 'cross hairs' on the inside of the 'ole as a reference later on. I decided to use a board of pippy oak:
...for this little job and also:
...biscuited them in place. Once I'd shot in the angles on the shooting board, each pair were glued in place:
...and after each was cleaned up, it was time for the veneer 'lay ups' for both sides (one shown):
...made from 3mm thick veneers passed through the drum sander to approx 2mm. The whole job, both sides, was pressed in the bag and looked a bit of a 'dogs dinner' when it came out:
Once it was cleaned up and rough cut to size, I was able to transfer the all important pencil 'cross hair' lines:
...to the outside perimeter. Having made a 1:1 drawing of the underside, it was then easy to mark out four points on the 'cross hair' lines to mark the outside and these would enable me to align the routing template. Cunning or what?
It's absolutely essential to have three, not two, cramps on the template at any one time. This means you you can shunt each round in turn and two will always be in contact with the template.
It was then cleaned up with the big ROS and finished off with the little Festool jobbie and the edges were rounded over with a small router cutter:
Finished with three coats of satin Osmo-Polx with wax from CHT over the top:
SWIMBO is happy and my accumulation of brownie points is steadily increasing :eusa-dance: - Rob
:When the olive oil careered wildly off the turntable the other day, I mentioned to SWIMBO that it was time to write this one off a 'bad job' and make a replacement.
Rather that the lathe, I used a couple of bits of 16mm MRDF squished together in the bag press, but firstly I used a circle jig in the router to cut out an 'ole for the stationary base. More importantly, I used some 'cross hairs' on the inside of the 'ole as a reference later on. I decided to use a board of pippy oak:
...for this little job and also:
...biscuited them in place. Once I'd shot in the angles on the shooting board, each pair were glued in place:
...and after each was cleaned up, it was time for the veneer 'lay ups' for both sides (one shown):
...made from 3mm thick veneers passed through the drum sander to approx 2mm. The whole job, both sides, was pressed in the bag and looked a bit of a 'dogs dinner' when it came out:
Once it was cleaned up and rough cut to size, I was able to transfer the all important pencil 'cross hair' lines:
...to the outside perimeter. Having made a 1:1 drawing of the underside, it was then easy to mark out four points on the 'cross hair' lines to mark the outside and these would enable me to align the routing template. Cunning or what?
It's absolutely essential to have three, not two, cramps on the template at any one time. This means you you can shunt each round in turn and two will always be in contact with the template.
It was then cleaned up with the big ROS and finished off with the little Festool jobbie and the edges were rounded over with a small router cutter:
Finished with three coats of satin Osmo-Polx with wax from CHT over the top:
SWIMBO is happy and my accumulation of brownie points is steadily increasing :eusa-dance: - Rob
