Compound cut VW Beetle

[Ennobee]

Some earlier posts got me thinking that the wooden Beetle cars I have seen so far all missed the characteristic Beetle sidespats.... and before I knew it, I was already making plans to build a vintage VW Beetle -with sidespats- as a coupound cut. I ended up making two demonstration models, all about 2 1/2 x 1 inch approx. Look fine so far, but the next version definitely gets cut out wheels.

[bstark]

Cool! How did you do it? With the front and back profile the wheels would be connected... how did you get the piece out between the wheels?

[Ennobee]

I basically cut them out of one block of wood (Actually I glued two 1/2 in. strips together with a little 1/8 strip of dark wood in the middle for detail.) Below are the plans I drew up. I made them from 3-view blueprints of the original beetle I found on the internet (The-Blueprints.com - The largest free blueprint collection on the Internet) Right now they are still a bit scetchy as most of the how-to and what-goes-first only exists in my head. I'll keep working on it however.

The images are 200 pixels wide, so on a 100dpi printer they would fit a 2x2x2.5in. block of wood (like a leftover piece of 2-by-4). I printed them on half scale for a 1x1x1_1/4 block with the middle stripe glued in.

more to follow as I make another demo model later this weekend.

'Niklas

[wood-n-things]

So how is this project coming along. Need updates...<grin>

[fireglass]

nice job ,would not thought one could do that. Lance

[Ennobee]

Little uodate: In the three months since, I made several more designs and ended up with so many cars I had to post them in a separate gallery. (Compound Cut Cars - Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Photo Gallery) In particular the family of Chevy vans/trucks/pickups turned out pretty nice. If I ever get good enough with Inkscape I'll start posting plans

[Wood Dog]

Sweeeeet cuts Ennobee

[weiner9696]

I really like the racing stripe.

George