Brenda has been sewing masks non-stop for the last 4 weeks and her sewing supplies and area are a disaster (her words). And she wants to work on some organization. So broke out the Shaper Origin again to experiment with making a spool rack from 1/2" BB ply.
This works but I think it needs a little alteration of the sizes. Still, should work. But now I need to make about 10 more. And find some better 3/16" dowel. The stuff I had on hand was pretty stringy stuff.
There are dowel joints inside where the butt joints are. Helps with alignment. All easy to do with the Shaper.
Amazing to me how fast I could draw the basic shapes, create the SVG files and move straight to cutting. Since you are in control of all cuts it is easy to fiddle with exact hole sizes by starting too small and sneaking up on a fit. Then record that offset and apply to all remaining holes of the same diameter. Can move as fine as 0.001" at a time. 0.005" is more realistic minimum size changes since wood-into-wood is a press-fit anyway.
This works but I think it needs a little alteration of the sizes. Still, should work. But now I need to make about 10 more. And find some better 3/16" dowel. The stuff I had on hand was pretty stringy stuff.
There are dowel joints inside where the butt joints are. Helps with alignment. All easy to do with the Shaper.
Amazing to me how fast I could draw the basic shapes, create the SVG files and move straight to cutting. Since you are in control of all cuts it is easy to fiddle with exact hole sizes by starting too small and sneaking up on a fit. Then record that offset and apply to all remaining holes of the same diameter. Can move as fine as 0.001" at a time. 0.005" is more realistic minimum size changes since wood-into-wood is a press-fit anyway.
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. -- G. Carlin
