reible

About maybe 25 years ago I built a bunch of these climbing bears (see attachments 1 and 2) for the kids a the church we were attending. My wife sewed little outfits and my granddaugher now has the one I made for my daughter.

Back in those days I used a jug saw and cut traced bears out. Used a couple of sanders to sand the edges and made a nail board drilling fixture to get the angles right. A simple pattern to locate the eyes etc.

I was thinking of making somemore now that I found the details again. This is where you come in.......

I would like some ideas about how you might do these with a router and choise of templates, fixtures, bits etc. I would like details so that anyone can do this at home, maybe for the holidays.

As you can see some modification will be needed to use a router so feel free to talk about that.

If someone wants to really do these I can provide the remaining information on the construction.

Let's see some posts on this please.

Ed

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template tom

There is no doubt this could be achieved with the router and the aid of a template it would mean some of the internal corners would no longer be 'sharp' as they would have a small radius anything from 3mm minimum to 5mm maximum
Tom

reible

Yes the modifications I mentioned!

OK more ideas, more posts, don't make me do this myself!

Ed

template tom

I'LL sit and design a template
Tom

reible

Thanks Tom!

Now how about some others of you tell me how you would do this?

The more feed back the better!

Ed

Glenmore

Just think a nice roundover bit will elimanate some of the sanding can't really help with the template though not a good drawer. Seems though you will have fun with that project enjoy.

reible

What if I told you that being a good artist or draftsperson is not importain and that I would be interested in how you would do this? The round over idea is good and I do have one of the brass bearing bits so the radius might not be as much of an issue....... Please go on with somemore ideas.

Ed

template tom

Good morning Ed
I trust you slept well
Elnclosed is a template for you to cut this will cut one half of the bear then simply flip over the template to rout the other half
Tom

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template tom

I forgot to mention DO NOT ROUT all the way through at least one of the halves

How I got a posting here I do not know I suppose poor computer skills
Tom

template tom

I tried downloading the drawing and it is smaller than the actual size required therefore you will have to scale it up to 8 inches square.
I must also say this is the first time I have used imperial measurement on the computer so it took me a little longer to complete the drawing
Tom