i did some work on the Roundy Round in the past couple days.
I added nails to represent the bolts used to assemble the timbers. I could have used real nuts and bolts but that is way harder and more expensive. This is in the style of MIK thus nails… they are cheap and they were on my shelf! Ya gotta have a shelf!
smallish finish nails for the sides, bigger finish nails to “hold” the cross timbers in place:
Really Titebond III should do the trick by it self this is just for show!
the larger finsh nails were long enough to pass right through the assembly and needed to be trimmed to length…ya gotta have tools! I whacked each nail with a hammer to smooth the sharp bits left by the bolt cutters
it took a bunch of nails to do the job!
I planked the deck and laid two timbers for the rails. I spiked the rails with little nails meant for weather gaskets on doors and windows.
the turn table rolls on “ring rails” I bent some rail when a freind brought over a rail bender…just the wrong diameter. so I cut a plywood disk on my band saw and used that as a template to bend the rails the right amount.
there is a post that will need to be mounted on the foundation for the roundy round. i made the socket that the post fits from bits of brass, one turned on the lathe the other cut from a flat bar i had in my bin. Ya gotta have a bin!
I screwed the socket to the middle of the bottom of the table.
i used the socket and my plywood template to line up the rails for spikes.
