gidon
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The little man is 10 months old now and I've yet to make him anything after abandoning the cot before he was born. This seemed like a nice simple project (still took at least twice as long as I thought it would). And it means at least I have one 
oops completed project this year! (The front door is almost finished honest!)
Tried to be disciplined with WIP shots so here we go:
Ash all prepared from rough stock and dimensioned:
3/4" Ash dowel cut from 3/4" square stock using a 3/8" radius cutter. Just leave enough length to run along the router table:
Box joined using hand cut dovetails and base was some pine jointed and glued into a rebate:
Handles for walker cut on the bandsaw and the gentle curve smoothed with a spokeshave (yippee - first time I've used this tool properly - it worked really well):
Handles mitred and screwed to box. Holes counterbored for plugs:
3/4" Forstner bit used to drill tenons in handles to accept dowel. Glued in place:
Tapered plugs cut from Ebony scraps. First time I've used these plug cutters and the plugs kept on getting stuck in the cutter - absolute nightmare to get out:
And sliced out on the bandsaw:
Plugs glued in place, trimmed with a pull saw and smoothed with a LA block plane:
Wheels cut using 65mm hole cutter:
And sanded smooth on the drill press:
And rounded over on router table (attached to little jig to save rounding over my fingers):
Completed wheels with decorative burn marks:
Wheels are bolted on with a couple of washers and some stud lock (I tested this out - it really does lock the bolt in place!)
The head of the bolt is buried underneath the wheel surface - so the whole fixing is safe from prying hands. (You wouldn't believe how long it took me to work out a way of attaching these wheels!)
Completed walker sanded but unfinished:
Applying first coat of Liberon finishing oil:
And after 3 coats (finito!)
Phew that was a slog! Don't know what was going on with the white balance on my shed camera - apologies for that.
Any comments / criticisms welcome.
Cheers
Gidon
oops completed project this year! (The front door is almost finished honest!)Tried to be disciplined with WIP shots so here we go:
Ash all prepared from rough stock and dimensioned:
3/4" Ash dowel cut from 3/4" square stock using a 3/8" radius cutter. Just leave enough length to run along the router table:
Box joined using hand cut dovetails and base was some pine jointed and glued into a rebate:
Handles for walker cut on the bandsaw and the gentle curve smoothed with a spokeshave (yippee - first time I've used this tool properly - it worked really well):
Handles mitred and screwed to box. Holes counterbored for plugs:
3/4" Forstner bit used to drill tenons in handles to accept dowel. Glued in place:
Tapered plugs cut from Ebony scraps. First time I've used these plug cutters and the plugs kept on getting stuck in the cutter - absolute nightmare to get out:
And sliced out on the bandsaw:
Plugs glued in place, trimmed with a pull saw and smoothed with a LA block plane:
Wheels cut using 65mm hole cutter:
And sanded smooth on the drill press:
And rounded over on router table (attached to little jig to save rounding over my fingers):
Completed wheels with decorative burn marks:
Wheels are bolted on with a couple of washers and some stud lock (I tested this out - it really does lock the bolt in place!)
The head of the bolt is buried underneath the wheel surface - so the whole fixing is safe from prying hands. (You wouldn't believe how long it took me to work out a way of attaching these wheels!)
Completed walker sanded but unfinished:
Applying first coat of Liberon finishing oil:
And after 3 coats (finito!)
Phew that was a slog! Don't know what was going on with the white balance on my shed camera - apologies for that.
Any comments / criticisms welcome.
Cheers
Gidon
