Don’t know if anyone is interested as I guess most of you make furniture, but I make 1:13.7 scale figures for my garden trains (nearly dollhouse size).
Here’s how it is done.
Not shown, I ripped some strips of wood from ordinary 2x4 pine; nothing fancy; nothing exotic.
Then, shown, I put a 1x1.5” or a bit bigger strip of wood on the table router and using a half inch round with bearing bit, I curved all 4 sides so that the wood is no longer rectangular but has rounded edges. I fed the wood thru from right to left. I try to vary the cuts and not be too precise
Then, moved the fence back a bit and handturned the wood to shape the upper and lower torsos (we're talking upper body here minus head and arms). I found that feeding it the opposite way, left to right, works better (otherwise, it splinters). Here you can see the stick of torsos. Took all of maybe 10 minutes
I then started a second stick for thighs/upper legs
then used band saw to cut; some of these may be cut a second time later for tilted pelvis; notice they all are rough looking
I then smoothed everything with the bench grinder;
I surprised myself, using only 1 bit. Nothing scientific about measurements so I have a variety of body shapes and sizes for different heights and everything from ecto to mesomorph
Here's my work area
I need to make more body parts, stick them in separate bins, drill them, wire them, and then fill in gaps with putty or self hardening clay and paint and clothe them, or maybe not clothe them.
Bob J. was the one who got me interested in routing small crafts, when he demonstrated how a wheel could be “turned” on a router. That got my creative juices flowing.