DoghouseForge
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Well,
The wife has been asking when Im going to use this new found love of glueing and sanding wood to make her something...
I need to go and buy more snazzy wood sometime next week for my next cutting board attempt, but I did have a small oak board and a thin 1/4" purple heart board so I decided to try and make a rolling pin..
So how am I gonna get a rolling pin out of 2 flat boards less than 1/2" thick...??? thats exactly what my buddy said when i explained my idea.. "Jon, you dont have a lathe" ...correct! but i do have a bunch of hole saw bits...
So my theory was to cut out a bunch of circles from both boards and glue them all together to form the cylinder shape...In order to get the stablity for the rolling motion I went with a 3/8" steel rod. Since the hole saw uses a
1/4" pilot bit all the circles came out of the hole saw with a dead center hole that was ready to be bored out up to the 3/8" size..Almost fool proof for alignment!
I should mention that i use a stationary drill press for this, I dont think a hand drill would be able to keep the level even...
(It was very tempting to post the above photo in the "thread of Dimple" i love that thread, and thought it would be funny to see how much flack I got... but...im still pretty new and not sure if everyone would get the humor...Maybe next time. )
So assembly was pretty simple and I used titbond III wood glue again to bond the sections together. The steel rod did need to be rolled along the belt sander a few passes in order to shrink the diameter enough that the wooden circles would be able to rotate freely when finished, but overall this was pretty simple...
while the center section of the roller was drying I worked on the handles. I started with 1.25" oak dowl rod and cut it to match the length of the handle remaining on each side of the roller. Some small scrap peices of purpleheart and padauk wood made cool accents to the handles. with the handles firmly attached to the rod the center section will roll freely when pushed giving you a true rolling pin and not just a solid pin or frenchpin...
Just to be clear, cutting the thin purpleheart and the small handle pieces was not as smooth as I have made it sound and the boring process ate its fair share of attempts before I got it right...
so with the center dry I inserted the rod and used the belt sander to get all the rough off and then worked up to 800grit... So to do this by trying to manually sand the radious with the high rpm belt would have made flat spots everywhere. So to get around this and still not have to hand sand for days I used the friction and rotation of the belt sander to my advantage..(this discovery came quite by accident but prooved genious)
I should also mention that I am refering to the 1x30 craftsman belt sander i use for my knives, not the 3x21 power sander in alot of the photos.
Its silly but I sprayed my index? fingers with wd-40 and actually would get the rolling pin spinning with the belt as the drive force. The smooth rod spun on my fingers and I could get it to go so freaking fast in my hands that It literally smoothed out and could be slid from side to side with no hesitation.. when it reaches the even speed and it smooths out like that, the high and low spots look stationary so you can slide it over to different sections and literally watch it lower or smooth out the bad spot, then move to the next one untill its all even...kind of a reverse lathe...
It took longer to get smooth going with the direction of the belt but it did work!! and the overall result was fantastic..Plus i didnt have to sand it by hand...
here it is with the center sanded and the handles mock fitted to the sides
After being glued into their fixed location on the rod the handles needed to be sanded into the smoother countoured shape I had in my head. I used the belt sander to kinda carve the countours into it..
So all sanded up to 1500 grit and ready for the first coat of sealer
Second coat of sealer applied and wet sanded to 2000grit.. then one additonal light coat of sealer...
So here is it at home under the normal light
Strategically placed on my wifes bakers pantry for her to find when she gets home...yes..the purple heart matches her mixer! totally not expected but..This should be worth a few points!
So this was once again an awesome first experience with an idea...So much fun to try this stuff out and even though its more about overcoming the last screwup to get to the finished result instead of smoothly creating something its time well spent!
Thanks and as always tips and pointers to make my work better and easier are totally appreciated!
JP
Doghouse Forge (wood glueing and sanding divison
)
The wife has been asking when Im going to use this new found love of glueing and sanding wood to make her something...
I need to go and buy more snazzy wood sometime next week for my next cutting board attempt, but I did have a small oak board and a thin 1/4" purple heart board so I decided to try and make a rolling pin..
So how am I gonna get a rolling pin out of 2 flat boards less than 1/2" thick...??? thats exactly what my buddy said when i explained my idea.. "Jon, you dont have a lathe" ...correct! but i do have a bunch of hole saw bits...
So my theory was to cut out a bunch of circles from both boards and glue them all together to form the cylinder shape...In order to get the stablity for the rolling motion I went with a 3/8" steel rod. Since the hole saw uses a
1/4" pilot bit all the circles came out of the hole saw with a dead center hole that was ready to be bored out up to the 3/8" size..Almost fool proof for alignment!
I should mention that i use a stationary drill press for this, I dont think a hand drill would be able to keep the level even...
(It was very tempting to post the above photo in the "thread of Dimple" i love that thread, and thought it would be funny to see how much flack I got... but...im still pretty new and not sure if everyone would get the humor...Maybe next time.
)
So assembly was pretty simple and I used titbond III wood glue again to bond the sections together. The steel rod did need to be rolled along the belt sander a few passes in order to shrink the diameter enough that the wooden circles would be able to rotate freely when finished, but overall this was pretty simple...
while the center section of the roller was drying I worked on the handles. I started with 1.25" oak dowl rod and cut it to match the length of the handle remaining on each side of the roller. Some small scrap peices of purpleheart and padauk wood made cool accents to the handles. with the handles firmly attached to the rod the center section will roll freely when pushed giving you a true rolling pin and not just a solid pin or frenchpin...
Just to be clear, cutting the thin purpleheart and the small handle pieces was not as smooth as I have made it sound and the boring process ate its fair share of attempts before I got it right...
so with the center dry I inserted the rod and used the belt sander to get all the rough off and then worked up to 800grit... So to do this by trying to manually sand the radious with the high rpm belt would have made flat spots everywhere. So to get around this and still not have to hand sand for days I used the friction and rotation of the belt sander to my advantage..(this discovery came quite by accident but prooved genious)
I should also mention that I am refering to the 1x30 craftsman belt sander i use for my knives, not the 3x21 power sander in alot of the photos.
Its silly but I sprayed my index? fingers with wd-40 and actually would get the rolling pin spinning with the belt as the drive force. The smooth rod spun on my fingers and I could get it to go so freaking fast in my hands that It literally smoothed out and could be slid from side to side with no hesitation.. when it reaches the even speed and it smooths out like that, the high and low spots look stationary so you can slide it over to different sections and literally watch it lower or smooth out the bad spot, then move to the next one untill its all even...kind of a reverse lathe...
It took longer to get smooth going with the direction of the belt but it did work!! and the overall result was fantastic..Plus i didnt have to sand it by hand...
here it is with the center sanded and the handles mock fitted to the sides
After being glued into their fixed location on the rod the handles needed to be sanded into the smoother countoured shape I had in my head. I used the belt sander to kinda carve the countours into it..
So all sanded up to 1500 grit and ready for the first coat of sealer
Second coat of sealer applied and wet sanded to 2000grit.. then one additonal light coat of sealer...
So here is it at home under the normal light
Strategically placed on my wifes bakers pantry for her to find when she gets home...yes..the purple heart matches her mixer! totally not expected but..This should be worth a few points!
So this was once again an awesome first experience with an idea...So much fun to try this stuff out and even though its more about overcoming the last screwup to get to the finished result instead of smoothly creating something its time well spent!
Thanks and as always tips and pointers to make my work better and easier are totally appreciated!
JP
Doghouse Forge (wood glueing and sanding divison
)
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