Friday, February 14, 2025

Space-Themed Bunk Bed, Part 3

It's planet-building day in the Rockies !!

Normally, I do most of my woodworking projects with hand tools, but today I am going to forsake the coping saw and fire up the shop scroll-saw instead.  I would like to see this project through to completion by the second week of March, so the sacrifice of a few electrons will serve to save me a lot of time. 

Surprisingly, I was able to knock out all eight planets and the moon in only a little over an hour, including a couple of short Mountain Dew breaks!

Once the "cuttin' was done" I hit the discs with some sanding blocks to even up any residual scroll saw cut marks on the outer edges.  After that, all the planets (and moon) received some round-over sanding on the top edges.

Here's a shot of the Solar System, laid out all nice and purty:

Next post -  it's paint prep time....

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