What tool is good to cut wooden wheels for a cart?
Question:does anyone know what power tool should I use to cut 12" wheels from a wooden board (like a flat door) for a cart?
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After you've drawn your circle on your material, determine the center of the circle and drive in a nail. Most jigsaws are equipped with two horizontal slots in the base, these slots will take an edge guide. this guide will also slip over the nail that you have driven in the material. If you don't have an edge guide,slip a string through the slot and loop over the nail to get the blade to follow the mark that you've drawn on the material. Removing the blade will make this easier to do, once you get that set up, drill a starter hole on the edge of your mark that you can fit your blade into so the base of the jigsaw will sit flat on the material. Keep your string tight and move slowly so the saw works smoothly. Good Luck!!
a saw?
A router with a circle cutting attachment. However, I would not use an interior door to make wheels... they're hollow. I would consider using plywood, glued to the thickness you want... or... cut some lumber and miter the ends (like you see on hexagonal and octagon picnic tables) to make the basic wheel 'blank'... then use the router. I'm including a link below to Rockler, showing a router with one of these attachements... but in fact, you can make one yourself out of plywood...Ive done it myself many times. Dont forget you are measuring from the edge of the router bit, to the center pin. (The center pin would be, in this case, the center of the wheel)
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If the wood is thick enough I would use a router to put a rounded edge on the circle so you could roll easier. A jigsaw would work also.
credit card - then you can just buy the wooden wheels already cut
A wood lathe would get the job done.
a jig saw or a scroll saw
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