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<\/a>Cutting the plywood sheets into 40cm squares.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Cutting off the corners, gives a nice stop sign. I could have done circles, but I didn’t have the right bit for my router. If you don’t have means to cut a circle this shape works well. If you are worried about the corners you can keep cutting them until you have close to a circle. My saw horses were lent out, but this ladder on it’s side worked great.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/a>Tap center the bats on your wheel head, and sneak a sharpie under them to draw a circle around the circ. of the wheel head.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Here I used some screws to set blocks in place, to test tightness of fit. They were a bit loose, so later when I attached them for good a jiggled them in over the line just a tad.<\/p>\n Here it is sitting on the wheel.<\/p>\n And underneath view… You can see the cleat contacting the wheel head.<\/p>\n Final gluing. Titebond III is my favorite wood glue. Very strong, water resistant when dry, and no fuss. Cleans up with a wet sponge. I did the first couple with screws to clamp down the wood cleats, but it really wasn’t necessary with the weight method (below) which is much easier.<\/p>\n All the bats finished with 2 pugs of clay ‘clamping’ them down. Make sure all the cleats stack over one another, just like how you stack shelves in the kiln. The first few I put the cleats on with the bats in different directions. Makes no difference in the end, but for this clamping method, it prevents having a cool looking uniform stack. Dang. After the first 7, I finally got wise and assembled the bats oriented the same direction.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>