Snowflakes on a table saw?

[MDWine]

I saw a couple of these several years ago.

They are made by taking a blank of wood, passing it through the table saw, and then gluing up the pieces. Once the blanks are glued up, you can slice a cross-section from the end and they look like snow flakes.

Has anyone else seen these? Do you have a pattern or the directions?

I am trying to retrieve/find/buy a copy of American Woodworker from 1999 (Vol 70) that has the plans, but not sure it it is available.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

Michael

 

[CaptG]

Can not quite picture it, but it sounds interesting.

 

[workinforwood]

I haven't seen such a thing. Sounds like alot of work. If you go to scrollsawer.com, there's patterns for scrolling snowflakes.

 

[tripletsdad1]

hi micheal my brother in law has a copy that he is going to send me so if you don't find a copy i will scan and send it to you but it could take a week or two let me know if don't find a copy ps he said it's 1999 vol 70 bob tripletsdad1

 

[MDWine]

I have managed to collect some information about them. I am going to call AWW tomorrow and see if the back issue is still available. (I'm not very optimistic, however!

Who knows...

 

[leehljp]

This peaked my curiosity and I found some links that don't do what you want but do give some ideas. The first one "sounds" like what you are looking for - except it is all written out and doesn't have pictures;

The second one is a kids snowflake made simple.

The third one has a picture way down the page that gives an idea of glue up of a blank - of which it can be sliced.

http://pages.swcp.com/~awa/wooden snowflakes.htm
http://www.crafts-for-all-seasons.com/wooden-snowflake.html
http://www.snowflakestore.com/wooden.htm

 

[DCBluesman]

http://namgnewsletter.com/dy/southern_snowflakes.pdf

 

[MDWine]

Lou/Lee;

Those are fundamentally what I was looking for. The original article came from AWW, and I ordered the article today. The pattern/instruction mystery is solved, now I just need to make a bunch.

I'm planning on working on these over the next few months, so I will reveal how they're going to be used some time next year!

Thanks for everyone's replys, it is most appreciated!

Happy New Year!!