Wade Lippman
10-15-2016, 2:16 PM
I apologize for the picture. My printer/scanner died yesterday and my wife's barely works.
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It is intended to look like a hatchet oar.
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except for obvious reasons the oar blade will be flat, perhaps an inch thick. It will be 7" by 14".
I am having problems figuring out how to make the oar shaft; the 4" rectangle on the right side of my drawing. It has to be rounded; while the rest will be flat. I don't see any way to do that on a router, as the transition will look terrible.
The three ideas I have are:
1) Use a 2" thick piece of wood, turn the shaft on a lathe, and then cut the piece to 1" thick so I have a half round. I am not sure how good a handle that will make for the cutting board though; I picture it just sort of rounded on the sides, so it is more like a half oval.
2) run the cutting board pieces the short way instead of the long way. Then I could make my shaft on a router separately and then glue it on to the blade; it will be long grain to long grain, so the joint should be good. But that has me routing end grain which can be a problem, and it has the handle with the grain running the wrong direction, which will be weak. (any wood with really strong end grain)
3) Make the board normally and make the handle separately with the grain running the same direction, and glue them together. It will be end grain to end grain, but if I throw a domino in it might be okay.
So, what do you think?
345808
It is intended to look like a hatchet oar.
345809
except for obvious reasons the oar blade will be flat, perhaps an inch thick. It will be 7" by 14".
I am having problems figuring out how to make the oar shaft; the 4" rectangle on the right side of my drawing. It has to be rounded; while the rest will be flat. I don't see any way to do that on a router, as the transition will look terrible.
The three ideas I have are:
1) Use a 2" thick piece of wood, turn the shaft on a lathe, and then cut the piece to 1" thick so I have a half round. I am not sure how good a handle that will make for the cutting board though; I picture it just sort of rounded on the sides, so it is more like a half oval.
2) run the cutting board pieces the short way instead of the long way. Then I could make my shaft on a router separately and then glue it on to the blade; it will be long grain to long grain, so the joint should be good. But that has me routing end grain which can be a problem, and it has the handle with the grain running the wrong direction, which will be weak. (any wood with really strong end grain)
3) Make the board normally and make the handle separately with the grain running the same direction, and glue them together. It will be end grain to end grain, but if I throw a domino in it might be okay.
So, what do you think?