Making Winding Sticks
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5 February 2013 at 9:35 pm #7509
Not sure why no one has come up with thoughts of having two sizes (or even more). My favourites are some a friend of mine sent to me as a gift. He bought them from a maker. They are made from rosewood for weight, plastic guitar binding for contrast along one of the winding sticks, and have dovetailed insets in the opposite one. In the front face, centred near the bottom of each one of the winding sticks is an 3/16″ abalone dot to guide centring on the boards being flattened.The winding sticks are also narrow at the top than the base to give bottom weight for stability.
Extruded aluminum angle makes a nice winding stick. Easy to get in the US from hardware stores but inspect (sight) it to make sure the length you pick is straight as they do get banged up.
Cut to length, file off the burr. Either paint the tips black or just use some blue painters tape to add contrast on one stick.
Place it open-section down on the work and sight just like any other winding stick. Also doubles as a make-shift straight edge for marking out tapers, estimating bow or crown and what-not.
I made my own winding sticks out of some left over timber from when I built our dining table. Mine are 24″ long and are made out of straight grained White Oak. I put a 1/16″ dot of mahogany in the middle of each one to help alignment. They stand 2″ high and are chamfered along the top 1″ to help with the light relflection. I ran a black Sharpie marker across the top of one of them to help with the contrast. They also double up as a nice straight edge.
24 September 2013 at 3:01 pm #19296I tried to make mine. I loosely based it on the plans from Jim Tolpin’s book. As a side note, its an interesting book but I often find it the opposite of Paul’s method; often complex with the need of many tools. I have to finish mine. I used basswood, but would like some type of inlay. I guess I could use danish oil on one and just shellack on another to make a contrast. Maybe do “plastic” that Paul used as inlays. I really should finish them.
As per the comment about learning to plane straight and square, I feel your pain. This is a learning process. Makes me wish I had a fireplace! I could heat my place!
25 September 2013 at 4:57 pm #19351I made mine 18″ long using Aluminum Angle and coloring one edge with Red Dykem. They have worked great. If I were to buy any I would by the LV ones though.
Steve
25 September 2013 at 10:33 pm #19360I made mine out of MDF and put some black magic marker across the top edge of one of them. Works fine….
27 September 2013 at 10:29 am #19388Link to my winding stick good practice and not that hard to make and look quite nice
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