Nice work. In future builds I think your jig idea would work wonders with a router with a flat bit in it. Just make sure the jig pieces are wide enough to give good support for router.
Let me begin with a great start to what is already a liked, and saved series. Also a new subscriber. At 4:22 you are discussing the gap between the two half’s. I’m sure you did, but I have to ask. Did you rotate the pieces to check for Bowing during the lamination process? Watching it I was wondering if it might have resulted from the table you was working on. I only ask, because I have had situations arise myself, and scratched my head long after I finished, until somebody mentioned an issue like that. Again very good job though.
When gluing so many pieces of wood together, and over time,,, the wood ( 2 halves of the trunk ) will not be perfectly flat sometimes. Yes,, after completing the gluing of the 2 halves,,, i would put the 2 halves together to see which side i should use to then glue together. So the gap that i have here is perfect because the gap is in the middle of the wood. That can be glued with clamps. As long as the gap is not at the two ends of the wood, cause if it flares up at the 2 ends,, then it would not be good to laminate, so you just flip it. So now you know which side the wood will be glued together,, then i go ahead to cut the arm holes on the correct side. No, i did not check the bowing when i was gluing, it could be the round table that i was working on,, but the amount of bowing that i had was perfect acceptable and normal anyways, even if you had a perfectly flat service to work on,, this many pieces of wood can still bow a little...
Hi Tommy, do you think I’ll be ok with Douglas Fir? It’s a 2 in.x 10 in. from Home Depot I’m kind of worried about cracking the wood if I put clamps on it
Douglas fir is a pine tree, so its a soft wood. Sure, you can make the trunk out of this wood. It will not crack if you laminate it for the trunk. But the weight of the trunk will not be as heavy. Of course, hard woods are better. But do not make the Arms and Legs with soft wood ( Douglas Fir ), the arms and legs must be hard wood...
TOMMYBOY6969 I’m thinking of making my trunk a non traditional size. I’m thinking like 12 in. In diameter with the pine lumber that I have. That should bring up the weight some more plus it will be a wider trunk. What do you think?😀
@@Mr.Skitttlezz unfortunately I did not finish my project 😞. I was just going to make my dummy wider for the added weight. My vision was to make it close to as human weight as possible.
Nice work. In future builds I think your jig idea would work wonders with a router with a flat bit in it. Just make sure the jig pieces are wide enough to give good support for router.
Let me begin with a great start to what is already a liked, and saved series. Also a new subscriber.
At 4:22 you are discussing the gap between the two half’s. I’m sure you did, but I have to ask. Did you rotate the pieces to check for Bowing during the lamination process? Watching it I was wondering if it might have resulted from the table you was working on. I only ask, because I have had situations arise myself, and scratched my head long after I finished, until somebody mentioned an issue like that. Again very good job though.
When gluing so many pieces of wood together, and over time,,, the wood ( 2 halves of the trunk ) will not be perfectly flat sometimes. Yes,, after completing the gluing of the 2 halves,,, i would put the 2 halves together to see which side i should use to then glue together. So the gap that i have here is perfect because the gap is in the middle of the wood. That can be glued with clamps. As long as the gap is not at the two ends of the wood, cause if it flares up at the 2 ends,, then it would not be good to laminate, so you just flip it. So now you know which side the wood will be glued together,, then i go ahead to cut the arm holes on the correct side. No, i did not check the bowing when i was gluing, it could be the round table that i was working on,, but the amount of bowing that i had was perfect acceptable and normal anyways, even if you had a perfectly flat service to work on,, this many pieces of wood can still bow a little...
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Hi Tommy, do you think I’ll be ok with Douglas Fir? It’s a 2 in.x 10 in. from Home Depot
I’m kind of worried about cracking the wood if I put clamps on it
Douglas fir is a pine tree, so its a soft wood. Sure, you can make the trunk out of this wood. It will not crack if you laminate it for the trunk. But the weight of the trunk will not be as heavy. Of course, hard woods are better. But do not make the Arms and Legs with soft wood ( Douglas Fir ), the arms and legs must be hard wood...
TOMMYBOY6969 oh good
I got the arms and legs from Everything Wing Chun. The arms are ash wood. And the leg is teak. 😀
TOMMYBOY6969 I’m thinking of making my trunk a non traditional size. I’m thinking like 12 in. In diameter with the pine lumber that I have. That should bring up the weight some more plus it will be a wider trunk. What do you think?😀
@@bob-o9865 Hi is there a major difference in the diameter of the trunk? Like is it better if the training dummy is bigger or heftier per se?
@@Mr.Skitttlezz unfortunately I did not finish my project 😞. I was just going to make my dummy wider for the added weight. My vision was to make it close to as human weight as possible.
9inch = 23cm . 100lbs = 45kg