I apologize in advance if this has been asked before but I have looked through many posts and can’t find the answer… I’m wanting to make some tiered offset bowls and was wondering if anyone has any tips on registration marks for gluing after. I’m trying to get about 10 degree rotation per tier and it is a pain to eyeball it.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Pins are your friend. I’ve done some work where a box spirals, like so:
Good afternoon, you can call me Oliver.
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I was exploring some more spiral themes in layered boxes, trying to make the edges a design element instead of an unfortunate compromise [I don't love layered boxes because I find the edge to be ugly as a rule]. This is the latest thought I had.
Notes:
Don’t do this the same way I did, it was too fiddly.
Seriously, don’t. There are better ways.
I mean it.
All woods 1/8" hardwoods.
Sanded to 600 grit
Finished with wipe on satin polyurethane
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Hello, I’m Mike.
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I wanted to try another variation of the approach I used in the layered hexagonal dice box , but on a smaller scale, to test how well the method worked at small scales. Well, the answer is “this good”. I don’t have a great deal of notes on this that weren’t covered in the larger build, this was largely a refinement of the technique.
Overall height 1.25"
Diameter 1.9"-ish
All solid hardwoods
Sanded to 600 grit
Finished with wipe on polyurethane
Regular readers…
And @primal_healer did some excellent work with offset pins recently:
Made a toy sword for my friends son after being inspired to fall down the rabbit hole by the recent posts of awesome swords made by @evansd2 .
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The “blade” is made from acrylic and aromatic cedar.
Handle and sheath are made of maple plywood and cedar discs stacked up and fitted with guide pins and a few hundred drops of glue.
Here are a few pics of the build.
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But if you go way back in time, I did this spiral thingy:
Inkscape, Baltic birch, and a random dowel from Home Depot…
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Tried to upload a video clip but doesn’t seem to have worked. Hmm.
So yeah pins are great for this, you can choose to hide them or to feature them, it’s really up to you.
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Those are awesome designs by the way… That could be an option, the problem is that each layer is a little over 1/8 in thick and the layers are not even, they’re slightly off so i don’t have much room for a pin. I will definitely use that method for even and bigger layers. Thanks for the tip!
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The brass rods are only 1/16" diameter, they’re not hard to conceal in most designs… but you know your situation better than anyone
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ekla
April 15, 2020, 4:24am
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Lightly score the outline of each layer on the layer below?
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thx for the kind words @evansd2
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