Mr and Mrs Noah

[OldWood]

I've scroll sawed these pieces shown in the 1st photo as part of a Noah's Ark (ship-yard shown in picture 2 !) but feel my question is a general one rather than specific to scrolling.

The design I'm working to has the arms glued on which seems a bit unfortunate for my grand-children and wonder if using a pin as a hinge would allow the arms to move ?

The picture of the two models is shown against an A4 sheet to give an indication of size.

Thanks
Rob

 

[RossJarvis]

I like the look of the ark. It reminds me of a lego ferry we had 40 + years ago. The only problem I see with pinning the arms is that they may come adrift and be swallowed/stuck-up-nose/eaten. Gluing is much more likely to keep it all together. Possibly using a shanked screw, where the screw part is glued into the body may be more permanent. In the modern Health and safety culture every avenue of danger needs looking at. Not like my Dad's day, when Adolf left bombs lying around for him to play with!!

 

[OldWood]

Thanks Ross - excellent point. Currently two small grand-daughters and a third on the way in that household, so your judgement is a good one.

Interestingly the design package from the US recommended a homemade beeswax finish. A bit of googling on botulism in honey shows that the wax is the source, so I've already picked up on that hazard.

Re. the boat building, I reckon the design package has been done as a student exercise using one of the fancy 3D CAD programs. The trouble is that it has been put out without anyone doing the engineering on it so tolerance build-ups and alignments have not been assessed. There's been a hell of a lot of fettling to get it to go together - looks good, but that is because of the number of hours worth of cursing.

Rob

 

[RossJarvis]

Interestingly the design package from the US recommended a homemade beeswax finish. A bit of googling on botulism in honey shows that the wax is the source, so I've already picked up on that hazard.

Rob

I saw that recently! Maybe just a clear-coat will do. Good luck with it, I often felt like building something similar. How many pairs of animals are you going to make?