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OK, after many challenges along the way I have finally completed this project. The wood colour tones didn't come out as well as I was expecting but I'm happy with the final result.

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OK, after many challenges along the way I have finally completed this project. The wood colour tones didn't come out as well as I was expecting but I'm happy with the final result.

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Fantastic to see it finished. They look great!
How did it go with the sawing accuracy? Did you need much tweaking as you assembled?
 
From beginning to end it was a freaking nightmare. It ended up in the bin once!

The exact dimensions have to be nailed from the start before glue up to less than a mm accuracy.
Cutting the trapezoid shaped sticks was the easiest part but glueing them together to make the triangle was problematic as the clamping pressure pushes the 3 elements away from each other. Multiple jigs were required.
When assembling the pieces all of the small errors started to compound and lining up the pattern became virtually impossible. I had to dis-assemble it several times and build another jig to allow me to trim every piece to a consistant size.
Glue up to the substrate had to be done in many steps as the pieces would move under the cauls if I tried to glue too many. I found this out the hard way.
 
Wow, so much discussion on something so simple where you could just draw it out with a compass on a piece of mdf and get all the info required.
 
Wow, so much discussion on something so simple where you could just draw it out with a compass on a piece of mdf and get all the info required.
You seem to be lacking a basic understanding but nevertheless, go ahead and have a try, I'd like to see your results.
 
Wow, so much discussion on something so simple where you could just draw it out with a compass on a piece of mdf and get all the info required.
If you were to make a single Hexagon your method would still be a 'challenge' - put 6 together and the problem is magnified 36 times (a guess!).

Absolute precision is required for this kind of project - <1mm is no where near close enough - I would be aiming for sub 0.1mm and still anticipate difficulties at glue-up!
 
The best accuracy I could achieve was around 0.25mm on my small Axminster table saw. I prefer not to risk mucking it up by letting myself use hand tools too much.
 

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