
Making Wooden Mechanical Models: 15 Designs with Visible Wheels, Cranks, Pistons, Cogs, and Cams - Alan Bridgewater



Discover the art of crafting wooden mechanical models with "Making Wooden Mechanical Models." This manual features plans for fifteen intricately designed machines, each showcasing visible wheels, cranks, pistons, and other moving wooden parts. Whether you're a professional woodworker or a DIY enthusiast, these projects, including the Oil Pumping Rig, Flywheel Propeller Machine, Rack & Pinion Machine, Harmonic Oscillation Punch Machine, Reciprocating Engine, Cam & Fork Machine, Combustion Engine, and Pendulum Escapement Machine, offer a challenging yet rewarding experience.
The plans encompass a wide range of techniques and procedures, such as laminating, cutting cyma curves, tenon wedging, precision drilling, pegging, and whittling. By completing these projects, woodworkers can acquire the expertise to construct their own wooden models, capable of transforming simple movements into marvelous feats.
- Author: Bridgewater, Alan
- Publisher: Popular Woodworking Books
- Illustration: N
- Language: ENG
- Title: Making Wooden Mechanical Models: 15 Designs with Visible Wheels, Cranks, Pistons, Cogs, and Cams
- Pages: 00144 (Unencrypted) / 00144 (Encrypted)
- On Sale: 2011-05-30
- SKU-13/ISBN: 9781558703810