I need to build something like this clock and I’m wondering what the best way to do it might be. I’ll need to minimize labor, which is less important than minimizing cost (though that matters too).
Focusing on the rim/flange because that’s the difficult part. The face is just birch plywood.
The Multicam is my hammer to every nail I encounter, so first thought was to CNC a plywood ring and apply birch veneer to the outside.
Second option I thought of was to use benderboard / kerfboard type stuff and veneer that.
Last and pretty much out of the question is laminating my own rings out of thin birch or basswood with a birch veneer. This ain’t gonna happen.
Any thoughts? It only needs to be about 0.25-0.375" thick
I made a circle jig to fit the Jet saw tables back in January - it should still be at the left end of the Kapex station. It would fit a roughly "16 inch diameter.
You could also cut out a stack of circles, cut the centers out of all but one of them (just enough to accommodate the clock works) and then laminate the whole thing. I think the layers would be more visually interesting than a veneer, anyway.
How about the lathe? They do round pretty well. You could cut the face slightly oversize. Turn the back part and part it off and whatever depth you want to make the hoop then glue them together. You could either sand down the oversize top or use a flush trim router bit.
