--Novice turner here. I'm in the process of making a carriage for a scale model of an old muzzle loading cannon. I bought the thing at a swapmeet and it came with a "carriage" made of bandsawn Doug Fir 2x8: a really ugly thing! I've found plans of gun carriages on the web (best drawings: USS Constitution) and I'm freelancing one from an agglomeration of ideas. For the wheels I'm starting by laminating two hunks of 3/4 oak, with the grain turned 90 deg from one piece to the other, to yield a rough blank that's 1-1/2" thick and about 3-1/2" dia. I plan to use a compass to lay out center, i.d., o.d., then bore out the center of each, put each roughly bandsawn piece on a mandrel and turn them to final o.d. This o.d. will eventually be 'shod' with a steel 'tire', similar to the ones in this photo:
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17 years ago