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Ships Wheel Progress


smitty0312

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You can rough cut the excess off with a band saw, but the best way to finish cut it is with a router on a circle jig, with the wheel attached to a piece of sacrificial plywood. Determine the exact center for attaching the circle jig, and then go from there. Cut the outside first, followed by reduced diameter interior cuts, but don't through cut the plywood, or you will loose the center reference for everything that needs to be round and symmetrical. When you have finally cut and shaped one side (don't forget to make the center hub with the same center point), and you have router bits with guide bearings, then you can remove the plywood, flip the wheel over, and use same bits, the bearings to shape the back side, running the bearing along the finished cut from the first side. It all has to be done in the right sequence. Skip a step and you will make firewood. Think it through very well before starting. Even write the steps down and check them off as you do them.

 

It sure is looking good so far.

 

 

Charley

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