Compund cutting

martinka · 5 Jul 2014

I was really impressed with Michael's chess set and decided to have a first go at compound scrolling with a simple pattern from Steve Good. I'm even more impressed now! It may not be too difficult to do, but it's not easy to do well, at least not for a first attempt. Cutting the first word was OK, but the second wasn't so simple with all the different thicknesses of wood. You need to be very careful when it suddenly changes from the full 1.5" thickness to .25" thick either side and nothing in the middle. As much as I enjoyed cutting it, I think I'll stick to cutting mostly 6-10mm ply.

Still, it got me in the good books.

edit: It's two pieces of fence post glued together, hence the line in the middle.

loftyhermes · 5 Jul 2014

Martin, when you do the first cut don't take the loose pieces out that way there won't be such a thickness variation of the wood for the second cut and that may make it easier for you.
happy scrolling
Steve

ChrisR · 5 Jul 2014

Martin.

Anything that earns brownie points is worth doing, looks good by the way, and a good use of a couple of off cuts.

Agree with Steve, if all of the parts a kept together the cutting is fairly consistent, I have not done much compound cutting so no expert, but the bit that I have done I kept all parts together by wrapping with masking tape, you can still see your cutting lines through the tape. Can’t claim as my original idea, just copied the idea from a book, not sure which one. :wink:

Take care.

Chris R.

Bryan Bennett · 5 Jul 2014

Well it looks good to me,and if it earned brownie points too Martin you are on a winner :roll: It may be something I may do in the future but at the present time I can't even find time to go fishing

but I can't complain.

Bryan

Chippygeoff · 5 Jul 2014

I always find the second part the hardest so what I did was to make up a simple wooden clamp that holds everything together quite nicely and when cutting the second part I hold the clamp to guide the blade.

martinka · 5 Jul 2014

Thanks for the comments chaps, all taken on board.

Geoff, I went to Steve Good's site to have a look at the plans for the clamp and ended up cutting that before I made the clamp. No wonder our lass says I'm backwards. :mrgreen: