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Yeasterday I read this quote by Bert, in which he suggested Obl1v1Aus to build a sled...
Such a sled is perfect for giving almost every imaginable shape two parallel surfaces! - also forks.
Then I changed Bert's Idea of a screw against two nails. Why? Because then you've got the possibility to remove both uneven parts of the fork without hurting the inner part.
Then I searched for some rectangular pieces of furniture plywood and started to make the sled. Nailed two square sheets together and placed a spacer from leftover multiplex in one edge. The spacer is very useful as a handguard when sawing, you can perfectly grab it between fist and thumb when you push the sled through the circular saw later on.
Next, I drilled two little holes in the upstanding plate. Now I took two roundhead-nails and marked their depth with isolation tape, that I later on knew how deep I can knock them into the board. This is a very important step, otherwise it could happen that you knock the nails too deep and catch them with the sawblade!
Now I started with preparing my fork a little bit, I just needed a relatively even small flat at one side to have a straight angle when nailing it to the sled.
I also predrilled the fork a little bit for better nailing, but also here you have to check the depth, otherwise you'll have holes in the fork later on (not so bad, you'll laminate wodd over it anyways )
And then I started nailing the fork to the sled, the nails as deep as the isolation tape just touched the board. In my case I knew that now the nail tips were standing out 6mm from the board into the fork.
Now the loud part:
I used the adjustable leader of my circular saw and pushed my sled along it for an absolutely straight cut.
For the first time with a depht of about 1.5 cm to rip the left uneven part off:
And then the rigt part. You can let your forked sticked to the board exactly this way, you just have to push the adjustable leader of the cirular saw as much nearer to the blade as thick as you want your "fork board". Now the part cames where you see why you needed the isolation tape. If my nails were going too deep into the fork, the saw blade would have catched them and zhings would have happened I better won't think about. Please do this step if you try it!
And now my finished board out of the fork fell of the saw and was ready to being laminated! Maybe a bit sanding is still needed before, but I have a smooth and even surface now!
The part of the outher shape which stucked still to the sled I just removed with pulling out the nails a bit, so the sled can be re-used a tousand times!
Feel free to try this! But please, check the depth of your nails before sawing the second part off!
And I want to excuse myself for the relatively bad quality of my pictures this time, I didn't wanted to take my camera into the dusty workshop so I did the photos with a phone...
I'm sure you'll see some pictures of the finished fork sometimes!
Greetings, Haecksler!
Yeasterday I read this quote by Bert, in which he suggested Obl1v1Aus to build a sled...
And then I got an Idea!
Such a sled is perfect for giving almost every imaginable shape two parallel surfaces! - also forks.
Then I changed Bert's Idea of a screw against two nails. Why? Because then you've got the possibility to remove both uneven parts of the fork without hurting the inner part.
Then I searched for some rectangular pieces of furniture plywood and started to make the sled. Nailed two square sheets together and placed a spacer from leftover multiplex in one edge. The spacer is very useful as a handguard when sawing, you can perfectly grab it between fist and thumb when you push the sled through the circular saw later on.
Next, I drilled two little holes in the upstanding plate. Now I took two roundhead-nails and marked their depth with isolation tape, that I later on knew how deep I can knock them into the board. This is a very important step, otherwise it could happen that you knock the nails too deep and catch them with the sawblade!
Now I started with preparing my fork a little bit, I just needed a relatively even small flat at one side to have a straight angle when nailing it to the sled.
I also predrilled the fork a little bit for better nailing, but also here you have to check the depth, otherwise you'll have holes in the fork later on (not so bad, you'll laminate wodd over it anyways
)
And then I started nailing the fork to the sled, the nails as deep as the isolation tape just touched the board. In my case I knew that now the nail tips were standing out 6mm from the board into the fork.
Now the loud part:
I used the adjustable leader of my circular saw and pushed my sled along it for an absolutely straight cut.
For the first time with a depht of about 1.5 cm to rip the left uneven part off:
And then the rigt part. You can let your forked sticked to the board exactly this way, you just have to push the adjustable leader of the cirular saw as much nearer to the blade as thick as you want your "fork board". Now the part cames where you see why you needed the isolation tape. If my nails were going too deep into the fork, the saw blade would have catched them and zhings would have happened I better won't think about. Please do this step if you try it!
And now my finished board out of the fork fell of the saw and was ready to being laminated! Maybe a bit sanding is still needed before, but I have a smooth and even surface now!
The part of the outher shape which stucked still to the sled I just removed with pulling out the nails a bit, so the sled can be re-used a tousand times!
Feel free to try this! But please, check the depth of your nails before sawing the second part off!
And I want to excuse myself for the relatively bad quality of my pictures this time, I didn't wanted to take my camera into the dusty workshop so I did the photos with a phone...
I'm sure you'll see some pictures of the finished fork sometimes!
Greetings, Haecksler!
