Kreg Gears

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Comment by Craig Browning on February 20, 2012 at 2:54pm

Thanks I'll look into it. . . if it requires a steady hand and good eye I'll have to find someone else to make it, I guess.  I shake far too much for fine work.

Comment by Robert G. Higgins on February 19, 2012 at 2:41pm

If you want to build gears with a purpose there is a router milling machine featured in shop notes magazine vol. 20 issue 115. this is a very advanced project that will challange your accruacy in woodworking skills. they have the patterns for the gears and the machine. I am in the process of finishing one now.

  

Comment by Craig Browning on February 19, 2012 at 10:06am

I found my mistake... I just searched WOODGEARS and left off the .ca part.  Thanks for the heads up!  I'm finally setting things up in the apartment so I can tinker and having a Steampunk sense of affinity, those gears really grabbed my imagination.

Comment by Robert Brennan on February 18, 2012 at 11:05pm

Hey guys,

I was away in Tamborine Mt on the weekend and visited a German Cuckoo clock shop, in there were all sorts of clocks with moving figures and machines water wheels, guys sawing timber and the usual dancing figures and of course a cuckoo or dozen.

Woodgears .ca is correct the automata was from a magazine and it crossereferenced Woodgearsas a source of info.

I am going to research how the sawing teams arms worked as I could see no external connections to the shoulder joint, so I assume control rods go through their bodies.

Regards

Robert Brennan

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Comment by Jim Russell on February 18, 2012 at 9:52pm

Craig,

I'm not sure where you went, but if you try woodgears.ca, you'll find all kinds of neat stuff. I don't think it has anything that is listed specifically as weekend project, though.

Good luck

Comment by Craig Browning on February 18, 2012 at 9:02pm

I think there's something wrong with the name of the URL you mention, all I could find was tons of sales pitch on a wide variety of products, nothing about weekend projects and how to make them.

Comment by Robert Brennan on February 5, 2012 at 3:07pm

Hello Jim,

Nice to hear from you.

The gears serve a very special purpose, during the weeks I made them it rained every day for over two weeks.

So being entierly bored and most of my wood being too damp to make anything with I spent a considerable amount of time searching "info" on the net.

It was there I found a website "woodgears" it was  very fascinating and interesting so I decided to check out the practicalities of wooden gears.

The gears in the photo dont really perform any practical function, apart from turning on the Kreg screws I used to assemble them with.

I used the following process to make them, researched different types, used the free software to make paper templates, glued them onto the plywood, cut them out with a bandsaw, removed the paper template, screwed them together and Hey they really worked!

Practical applications would be for any Automata projects you decide to make, Jigs for the workshop for example, or amusing/educational wooden mechanisms for various projects.

There is also an article in the "Woodsmith" magazine by Richard Rees of an wooden automated Noah,s Arc which is worth a read if this sort of wood work interests yourself.

Regards

Robert Brennan

Comment by Jim Russell on February 5, 2012 at 1:44pm

Stumbled across this photo, while browsing through photos. What purpose does it serve?