Alan Smith
Established Member
Stuck indoors at the moment wth a fractured shoulder blade. A little at a loose end I started working up an idea I've had in my mind for a while.
I picked up this
at a wood fair last year, smaller version of a coopers tapered auger. I thought it might be good for making sockets for stool and chair legs and decided I needed an easy way to make exact tapers on the legs to fit the sockets in the stool seat.
This was what I came up with
Another view showing the inserts for the screws holding the blade
Last view shows the cutter geometry
and this is the real point of the post. I've never seen a rounder in the flesh as it were and was very uncertain of how the blade should be mounted to get the best peeling cut. Inspiration came thanks to a pencil sharpener on my wifes desk. Any of you plane building chaps out there like to comment on whether there is a better way to do this?
Also on the subject of rounders I seem to recall that there was a firm making metal rounders for the chair bodging community, are they still around?
I picked up this
at a wood fair last year, smaller version of a coopers tapered auger. I thought it might be good for making sockets for stool and chair legs and decided I needed an easy way to make exact tapers on the legs to fit the sockets in the stool seat.
This was what I came up with
Another view showing the inserts for the screws holding the blade
Last view shows the cutter geometry
and this is the real point of the post. I've never seen a rounder in the flesh as it were and was very uncertain of how the blade should be mounted to get the best peeling cut. Inspiration came thanks to a pencil sharpener on my wifes desk. Any of you plane building chaps out there like to comment on whether there is a better way to do this?
Also on the subject of rounders I seem to recall that there was a firm making metal rounders for the chair bodging community, are they still around?