Today was shaping day for “Recycle This!!”.
The bottom of the deck is fairly flat but the top was a bit uneven. I was looking for someone with a radial arm saw that I could borrow or some clever way to set up one of my routers bit nothing panned out. I ended up putting a router bit on my drill press and was able to plane all but the center 4 inches of the top of the board.
I did borrow a belt sander and used it to shape the board.
I made a couple of models from news paper for the skin. I’ll use them as guides to cut my Kroger’s shopping bag skin.
Here are a few pictures from today’s work.
I started the day with a little belt sander shaping
Then some drill press milling
The drill press couldn't reach the center of the board
I sanded down the center strip leaving a little hump in the center
I used the sander to trim the outer edges of the board to match the shape of the model.
The overall shape is starting to look like a surf board
Working on building a model for the skin
The Moon likes the model
(Message edited by Bigshow on December 02, 2006)
(Message edited by Bigshow on December 02, 2006)