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Awesome piece of work

Love the sled and especially the nails

Now you need to figure out how to make the CNC put the nails in

For those who are interested in making the oval boxes like I show in http://forum.vectric.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=33155&p=240828#p240828 Fine Woodworking has now published a Design Click Build of my technique showing how to do it using Sketchup. https://www.finewoodworking.com/2019/11/20/designing-...

Thanks for pointing that out. It answers why some of my exports didn't do what I thought they should

Paul

BEAUTIFUL!

Where did you get the hardware?

It is included in a separate post. Let me know if you can't see it.

The floral pattern on the maple box is from Michael Tyler's Spring Wreath project - Thanks Michael!

Paul

Here are the files I used for making the stave oval boxes. They are fun to make and once you make some become quick and easy!

Enjoy.
Note: This file is compressed in rar format. Rename it and decompress.

On a recent visit to a Viking museum I was enchanted with some carved Tine boxes so I decided to try and make some myself. Here are some I have recently completed and if you would like to make some I have enclosed in a compressed rar file a VCarve file with templates for 3 different sizes and a PDF ...

Beautiful Bowl Ted!!!

An easy way to do stave segments is to use a bird mouth bit. I use the bit for 16 sided objects and it
is a breeze to cut the staves and glue up.

Neat design Michael. Would be useful for training hand/eye coordination! Would love to purchase the plans for it if you put it up on your website.

This sign was fabricated from old-growth redwood which was salvaged from a water tank taken down at an orange juice factory. It measures 30" high X 44" wide X 2.5" thick. Carving took about 7 hours, painting took about 13 hours. Mountains were left natural.

It sounds great!

Yes my technique does carve all dimensions so that only glueing the staves together is required. You are correct that the amount of curvature is limited to the thickness of the material. It is good for small projects but not for large ones.

Paul

Tailmaker, Thanks for the explanation. It helps. What I was working on is a procedure entirely done in Aspire that allows for a particular shape and size dimensions to lead to a 3D shape for the stave that makes into a barrel without the need for steam bending. I have done preliminary carves that pr...

Love what you came up with :D BTW - I recently searched for a formula for determining the curve/width of the stave in order to produce a barrel with wanted dimensions and shapes and came up empty. It seems that most barrel makers are using inherited patterns. I did come up with a procedure to come u...