Dave..
Edge banding will work well. You can buy it preglued and apply it with a cheap iron. Covers a lot of sins. Look at the speed roller and quad trimmer from Fast Cap. Not the cheapest tools, but good.
Gary
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Dave..
Edge banding will work well. You can buy it preglued and apply it with a cheap iron. Covers a lot of sins. Look at the speed roller and quad trimmer from Fast Cap. Not the cheapest tools, but good.
Gary
Ok what am I missing here? I downloaded the shelves.dxf to look at and my computer is saving them as an unk file. None of the programs I have see it.
change the file name extension from .unk to .dxf
Ok, Maybe I'm too green. How do you cut this shelf? Do you cut all the horizontal pieces out of on sheet and the vertical out of another? Just wondering if someone could show, maybe highlight what is 1st and then second cut? I love the design.
Theresa, part of the fun of building stuff is figuring out how to use every square inch of the raw material. Arrange the parts so it uses the absolute minimum wood, you can flip curves over so they nest next to each other leaving only the width of the bit (+ a hair) between them.
Every once in a while I see something interesting like that and look at my scrap bin and wonder if I can squeeze another project out of it for "nothing".
Green turns into "green thumb" quickly with experience when what you are growing is your own understanding.
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Danny, if you want the math to compute any horizontal or vertical slice of a sphere, I will provide, its not that bad.
D
Thx Dana but right now if I take one more thing in my head I think I may forget my name.
Im working on a battery box for my e-bike business, getting ready for a China trip, cleaning my shop for inspection, juggling 2 businesses and my brain is spread thin.
TO cut the shelves:
1. resize until the notches are slightly over the thickness of your wood.
2. There are two extra middle pieces, delete them they are the largest ones. You only need 2, one with notches on flat, one with notches on radius.
3. Hand nest, flip etc to get it all into your scrap wood.
4. Have Diego zero the machine, get a cup of coffee
5. cut
=P
I have created the design for the spherical shelves in Alibre Design and made it parametric to allow resizing.
The material is currently .771" thick, but that can be resized to suit. I have a nesting for a 4'x 8' sheet of material.
Anyone interest in cutting this design for personal use can send me an email via the forum.
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G'day Kirk
I'd like a copy of that file... just what I was looking for .. for the daughters room
mitch
Kirk, can you re size it small enough to upload to the forum here.