Pinewood Derby Car

Had to slice up two blocks to produce enough material to re-composite to the required car width. In retrospect, some of the layers could have been 1/4” or 1/2” thick, but I had already cut it all into 1/8” slices and figured out the settings for laser cutting to that depth in pine. I cut other 1/8” thick scrap materials for bed placement trial and error.

I was thinking that next time it would be fun to try a vertically stacked design vs. a laterally stacked one, or start with a solid car base and build a slot -assembly , thin walled body on top.

I built a car last year as a part of our adult group. Instead of cutting up the block and lasering it though, I hollowed it out and added an external expansion of glued layers, then shaped that with a Dremel. Final result was fully in spec, but I spent waaaaaaaay too much time on it, of course.

And, like usual, also forgot to take in-progress photos.

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Brings back a lot of memories. Built a track for our pack and built an automatic winner indicator.

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