projects
Simple versions of these projects have been chosen because the main aim is to demonstrate the shaper's usefulness. It is easy for a competent woodworker to modify a chosen project, giving a personal signature.
a barometer?
In these days of frequent weather forecasting a barometer is hardly a necessity, but the thermometer and hygrometer are important in our centrally heated homes.
This unit is fitted with a clock instead of a barometer and it is made from an oak shelf taken from a discarded bookcase.
The oak for the arm was planed and thicknessed on the shaper but the surround for the clock is 120mm wide and it had to be lovingly prepared by hand planing!
a mantle clock
A standard length of ready dressed timber was used in the largest section required for this project.
All of the smaller sections are sawn from this larger section, slightly oversized, before being machined on the shaper with the help of a jig.
toy or novelty barge
If several barges are required it is worth making a double-sided jig. With care any holes made by the screws holding the pattern to the work will be in the scrap.
For all of the machining to follow the grain of the wood, the hull has to be shaped in four operations using a half pattertn along the longitudinal centre line.
Provided care is taken aligning the pattern then symmetry is assured. (Quite a boon to the busy toy maker).
A combined stair and rudder is fitted in the slot left when the interior of the hull is sawn out.
