Transferring from drawing to wood

[Michael]

To add my experience to what you have already been told, you can use those push-up sticks of office supply paper paste, too (like a very small deoderant stick).

If you are good with your hands, and have table saws, scroll saws, band saws, disc sanders, you can use these to make the parts "exact" to the paper template.

A table saw works very well on larger rectangular parts, and insures true lines and squareness. 

If the part is too small for you to be safe at a table saw, you will hand-cut, but you can just "cut close" and then finish it off with a belt sander. 

For rounds, use a scroll saw to get it close, then hold the part in your hands and use a disc sander to get the final contour. 

If you have a bunch of parts that are all the same, glue the paper to one, then stack wood stock for the others behind it, tack-glue them together using the paper paste, and have at the stack with the disc sander. 

For a part with the center cut out, drill a hole anywhere in the cut out, pull the blade out of a scroll saw, put the blade through the hole and reconnect it to the scroll saw, and them use the scroll saw to make the inside cut. 

Please wear a full face mask when using doing this. Balsa in your lungs is a very bad situation. Maybe not today, but down the road..

If you ever make your own plans, you can print out the formers, glue 'em on wood stock, and proceed as above, and then I promise you a perfect fit, just like laser-cut parts, but no burned edges. <g>

Mike Nauman
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