When the CNCKing wants to go for a ride…
… he spends a few weeks designing a 10 x full-sheet (2440 x 1220 mm) project and then the next two weeks cutting and building it! It’s Wooden Wheels and I learned so much from this project – happy it’s FINISHED!
Some more interesting stats:
- 237 pieces (last count, had to make a few mods on the fly)
- my ShopBot (from ShopBotTools.com) is too small so I had to cut all the large pieces (some too large as you can see in the front wheel) using tiling which meant cutting the original full-sheet into 600 x 1200 mm segments which then had to be done in three different “tiles” ~ 240 cutting tiles (10 sheets x 24 tiles per sheet)
- no exterior hardware, nails or screws – instead relying on a herd of cattle hooves worth of glue and regular plywood
- Designed for 6mm but my plywood was 6.6mm so the design ended-up being 10% larger than intended
- total cost… about 500$US in plywood, 25$US in wood glue, 75$ in bits (I broke through 6 of them, all my mistake) and a few slivers that have yet to get out from under my fingernails!
- 400 video clips were made during the cutting and assembly of this project… will take me a week to go through it all but coming soon!
- tremendous amount of surface friction from the back wheels (made-up of an inner wheels glued to the rear axle with larger wheels “free floating”). Not something you want to ride if you are in a rush or for any extended period of time!
This is my 1 000th post here on CNCKing.com – can’t think of a better way to celebrate it!
Watch the video of the cutting/building of this awesome project!