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Showing posts with label Wooden Wheels. Show all posts

2023-05-02

My Prefered Method of Making Wooden Toy Wheels Is to Cut them With a Scroll Saw and Sand them Round with a Belt Sander

A Large number of small hanmade wooden wheels.
A few of the wooden wheels I have made.
 My Etsy Shop
If you love toys, you've likely had to make wheels at some point. Fortunately, there are many methods you can use to make wheels, and in this post, I will discuss my favorite method of making wheels.

My preferred method of making wheels involves drilling the center holes first, cutting the wheels with a scroll saw, and sanding them with a belt sander and a jig to make them perfectly round. The jig, a dowel in a piece of wood clamped at an appropriate distance from the sanding belt, makes the process fast and easy. The result is a hundred perfectly round, sanded-smooth wheels.

One of the most significant advantages of this method is its simplicity. The jig is so straightforward that I don't bother keeping them. This simplicity makes it easy to make wheels of any size.

My method is an excellent option if you need a quick, efficient way to make many perfectly round, smooth wheels. It's particularly suitable for mass-producing toys.

To summarize, if you enjoy making toys, you must know how to make wheels. You can quickly and efficiently produce many wheels using a scroll saw, a belt sander, and a jig. Although it may not be appropriate in every circumstance, it's worth considering if you need to make many wheels in a short time.