Straight edges

[oges]

Im in the process of making a little windmill clock (hopefully finished in time to display at Sydney WWW). Im making it out of NG Rosewood. The cutting of it has gone fine, but now that im starting to put it together im finding some edges aren't sitting flush together and require some sanding etc.. to get them to fit right.

Anyone have experience in making scrollsaw clocks and know of a good method of achieving this? Would stack cutting some edges help them to be the same height etc... or would it be easier to buy a compound saw or something to run them through?

Sorry for all the questions, I guess I'll learn from this and get better as I go.

Will have to keep eye out at show for some equiptment that may help.

[barnsey]

Oges

I made a cuckoo style clock a little while back and I had a little problem but in essence I found that where I had stack cut identical pieces everything was fine but I was conscious of cutting right on the line wherever there was a joint to another cut piece. My mistake was not stsack cutting the roof panals which were all straight cuts. Went back to the table saw and recut them - problem fixed.

Without seeing a plan it's hard too figure out where you might be able to fix it.

Jamie

[oges]

Thanks, thats pretty much what I have been told in another forum aswell. I was more after info on what to do for the 'next' one so that I dont have the same problem again. Stack cutting and using a table saw for the straight edges seems the norm.

And I thought the demonstration of doing natural edged bowls at last Fridays turners meeting sounded hard :rolleyes: Oh well I'll get the clock making worked out. Lucky im not demonstrating that part!

Anyway seeing that I dont have a table saw, can anyone recommend a good 'hobbyist' saw that I might check out at the wood shows? as long as SWMBO doesnt hide the plastic!

[Iain]

I have used a little fence on a scrollsaw, just a piece of 2x1 clamped to the table.
Be aware though that the blade is inclined to want to follow the grain on some denser timbers. This is especially true of PGT blades.