Matching Crack and Eros
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Grainger49
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Beautiful woodwork all around! And a nice, clean execution of Eros and Crack.
denti alligator
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Wow! How did you make these? Wa did you use on the top plate?
Sam -
The top plates are stock... no mods/polishing/paint. The bases are solid wood, with the curved bottoms routed using a template made of plywood (which was mocked up first in Adobe Illustrator and the curves were printed on paper and glued onto the plywood), and the grooves were routed with a small straight bit. The finish is just rubbed shellac (hopefully it can withstand the heat!) with some paste wax as a top coat.
The top plates are stock... no mods/polishing/paint. The bases are solid wood, with the curved bottoms routed using a template made of plywood (which was mocked up first in Adobe Illustrator and the curves were printed on paper and glued onto the plywood), and the grooves were routed with a small straight bit. The finish is just rubbed shellac (hopefully it can withstand the heat!) with some paste wax as a top coat.
...John 
Dan,
You totally nailed these, excellent work!!!
-PB
You totally nailed these, excellent work!!!
-PB
azrockitman
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Those are the nicest wood bases I've seen on a BH. Very professional job.
Beautiful work! But if I may, its just basic woodworking and all you bottleheads out there this is totally something you could do. The curves do not have to be routed with a template,a band saw will do. The rabbit on top just any table saw will do it. And the hard wood store will introduce you to the world of exotics. So enlarge your talents to the bases which can set off your gear. And there are lots of us out there to help! Jann Olsen
Grainger49
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Jann,
I have a jig saw, I have no place to put a band saw. My work space is overcrowded with electrical stuff. I need more room.
I have a jig saw, I have no place to put a band saw. My work space is overcrowded with electrical stuff. I need more room.
Jann -
You're right, these definitely don't take any advanced woodworking skills/tools to make. If you don't have a chop/miter saw you could cut the 45-degree edges by hand with a cheap miter box, e.g., http://www.homedepot.com/p/Stanley-Deluxe-Miter-Box-with-Saw-20-600D/100034395. A band saw would work great for cutting the curved undersides, especially if you have any sort of rounded sander to clean up the cut, but I actually used an inexpensive $20 jigsaw to make the first cut, and then cleaned it up using the router/template. The rabbit/groove that runs around the top would have been super easy with a table saw, but since I don't own one I had to use a router to do this. Cutting the groove that the metal top sits on would also be easy with a table saw.
In case anyone is interested I've attached the pdf that has the ellipses I used to cut the curves (it's really basic). As long as you print it out at the exact size (i.e., don't let your printer scale the image) then it should work.
You're right, these definitely don't take any advanced woodworking skills/tools to make. If you don't have a chop/miter saw you could cut the 45-degree edges by hand with a cheap miter box, e.g., http://www.homedepot.com/p/Stanley-Deluxe-Miter-Box-with-Saw-20-600D/100034395. A band saw would work great for cutting the curved undersides, especially if you have any sort of rounded sander to clean up the cut, but I actually used an inexpensive $20 jigsaw to make the first cut, and then cleaned it up using the router/template. The rabbit/groove that runs around the top would have been super easy with a table saw, but since I don't own one I had to use a router to do this. Cutting the groove that the metal top sits on would also be easy with a table saw.
In case anyone is interested I've attached the pdf that has the ellipses I used to cut the curves (it's really basic). As long as you print it out at the exact size (i.e., don't let your printer scale the image) then it should work.
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4krow
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Dan,
it just goes to prove that it isn't all about the tools. It's the imagination that can take a simple line into a beautiful design.
it just goes to prove that it isn't all about the tools. It's the imagination that can take a simple line into a beautiful design.
