Woodgears

[myersbear]

Can you make woodgears with the CarveWright, I will use 1/4" plywood. Thanks

[wunderkind]

Ditto myersbear.
I believe that the key is to setup a sled. I look forward to a chat about this. It would be cool to make a wooden clock or any of a number of wooden gear operated toys. Could also be used to make fretwork. Are there any seasoned carvers out there that have tried these ideas? The the things you can do with this machine is amazing. I'm thinking of trying walnut veneer over maple but need to understand how to carve leaving some flat surface in the sculpture & yet still have depth. In otherwords have the middle of the carving (z axis) at the surface. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
Jim

[wunderkind]

My wife gets Scrollsaw magazine & just got the Spring issue which has the patterns for a wooden geared clock in it. My Compucarve is being worked on right now but when I get a chance I will see if I can make one with it.
Jim

[Dan-Woodman]

Jim
You can create your flat seface in the middle by lets say-----start with an oval then recess,it automactically goes to a depth of 1/4".
Then take another oval smaller inside the first and recwess then change the depth on this one to 0.
Is this something like you had in mind?

[wallyign]

Can you make woodgears with the CarveWright, I will use 1/4" plywood.

Yes I just finished making my first gear out of 1/4" Baltic Birch plywood. I started from paper plans and scanned them into Photoshop. I removed the background so that all you have left is the gear. Zoom in on the gear and make sure there are no holes in the outline of the gear.

Imported into CW software, resized gear, use outline pattern and cut path. I only had to edit a few cutpaths and flip cut side for outside cog cut.

I sandwiched two 1/4" plywood togeather using 2 sided carpet tape to get the minimum thickness.

The finished gear was pretty good and the size was almost bang on. Heck of a lot better and faster than making two gears on the scroll saw. I saw on the net someone was using Maple MDF Board, I have never seen this type of MDF but I will look at it the next time I am at my supplier.

Here is a picture talk just as it came out of CW. No sanding just blew it off with air.

[BobHill]

I'd say that's a great example of some pretty nice wooden gears.
Bob

[wallyign]

Thanks Bob.

With a few more gears under my belt, I am well on my way to making a wooden clock

Wally

[BobHill]

Wally,

Be sure to take periodic photos and post them of your clock and it's works. It's always great to see and talk over the work everyone does. It's also inspiring as to what one can think of adding to their "to do" list. Having said that, I've attached a couple photos of some of the work I've done on my machine in my main hobby (model ship building from
scratch).

I'm building a scratch model of the Union ironclad USS Cairo (now in Vicksburg, Miss). This shows one of the design pieces, batched parts, and a jig holding 85 sistered frames (14 parts per frame) of the 115 total frames I have to build before making and installing keels, hull, and full interior (center paddle wheel and boiler fed twin steam engines with pitman arms). The hull will be 41" LOA and 1`2" beam.

Bob Hill
Tampa Florida

Bob

[BenCraig]

Bob,

That is really neat. Is there a place to buy patterns for ships, or have you created it from scratch?

BC

[BenCraig]

Wally,

Have you been able to complete a clock yet? I would like to see pictures, if you're willing to share.

Thanks,
BC