Yesterday, I got all the olive planed and dimensioned for the case pieces. Today, it the walnut and maple's turn. The walnut is really rough, twisted and/or cupped. I'm using a sled that I built in' 06 that was featured in FWW. Here is a link to a video of how it's made. It works very well. But, it's a heavy beast. Especially with a 5' long 10" wide 4/4 board on it. Several passes @1/32 have been necessary to get one flat side. Tires me out. Luckily, the maple is already flat.

This case will be different than the last one. The lid and bottom will be oversized glued up slabs with bread board ends...At least that's the plan, now. They'll extend about 3/4" at each end and somewhere around 1 1/2" in front. Those parts will be curved from the mid point to each end.  

Designing on the fly is fraught with danger but, oh so much more fun. 

Once the pieces are all cut and assembled for a dry fit, I'll get some pics.

 

 

That's a nice sled! I can see why it would be heavy.

I saw a similar sled featured in, I think, Shop Notes some years back.  I think they used jack screws, turned with shop made disc type knobs.  That was one of those projects I am going to make "one of these days."  Maybe I will dig it out next week sometime.  Looking forward to seeing that rifle case.

 

I found the Shop Notes version of the sled.  It was the cover project on Volume 23, Issue 137.  

Edited March 16, 20188 yr by PostalTom
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Thanks for the sled link Gene.

Looking forward to following along on this project.