Giant Plywood ( Wooden ) Legoman ~60cm & Cardboard Lego Brick Light
Introduction: Giant Plywood ( Wooden ) Legoman ~60cm & Cardboard Lego Brick Light
I see somewhere a wooden legoman and how it was made. I was convinced that it can be made just cutting and gluing without a lathe.
Then it just needed something more so I got this idea for lego brick light.
It was quite much of explaining so it can be that I forgot something so dont hesitate to ask if something is unclear.
Supplies
Supply list for the legoman:
21mm birch plywood, actually you could make this from any wood related board material
12mm birch plywood
-wood dovels
-some sticker for the face
Woodglue
-Optional magnets
Tools:
CNC or steady jigsaw hand or steady bandsaw hand
Good sanding machines
Drill
Cardboard Brick lamp:
7.5mm twovawe cardboard
Lamp leg
Woodglue
Tools:
CO2 laser
Step 1: Design for the Legoman
Design of the legoman.
Most of the parts are shaped so it only needs to cut in one way, and just glue those parts and then they are ready.
I will divide this to different parts and try to teach how you can make your own even resized.
1. Head.
2. Legs
3. Arms
4. Hip
5. Rest
There is front and side view of the legoman in the picture. Those are all we need.
If you have somekind of drawing program, even paper and pen, you can resize the legoman as you want if you keep the scale right.
You can only cut either front way or the sideway each part.
For example the arms. If you cut those according to front view and glue those together, you will have that front view shape but you lose the sideview shape, or you have to cut sideway later and it's much more difficult. For the arms its better to cut sideview shapes, glue those together and the final shape is only one mitersaw cut away from the final shape.
Front view arm width tells the amount of how many sideview plywood arms are glued together.
Second example head.
Head is symmectrical, its same front and side. And it's round. Both side and the front-views tell us the diameter and the height of the head.
Height tell us how many plywood pieces should be glued together.
I hope you understood that you can resize as much as you want, if you just keep the scale right.
Step 2: Head
Cut those circles to right diameter. Flush trim those and sand the sides, top and bottom, then glue everything together. Then its time to sand like a maniac.
I glued neck to body, and drill 22mm holes in the head, and in the middle of the neck. Connect with 22mm dovel so the head can spin.
Step 3: Legs
They dont look so good after cutting with cnc. 415
Again same things routing the tabs away, sanding the sides and top and bottom, and then gluing together.
After gluing use first router to round all the edges.
Before drilling a hole in a leg, you should think that upper part as a circle, and find that center. I drilled 22mm hole about 40mm deep.
Step 4: Arms
Sand the sides and top and bottom. Glue together. With arms for the right shape its better to cut it with mitresaw. As you can see from the pictures I made that arm frontview template and draw that shape on arm. When you make the cut, hold it with another woodstick etc, do not bring your hands near the blade.
Then routing and lots of sanding. There's picture whichs shows raw arm and final arm. Huge difference.
I connected hands and arms with 10mm dovel as seen in the pictures. Dovel can be glued to hand and still it can spin around. Between hand and arm there is 35mm round connect piece made with round drill bit. Inside hole is 10mm as well.
Whole arm is connected to body with 22mm dovel.
Step 5: Hip
This is little more complicated . First glue together 4 and 4 side pieces. Then glue together 2 middle parts.
After first gluing sand those pieces really well, its much more difficult after theyre all glued together.
Then glue 3 pieces together. I glued those as seen in the pictures. Little clamps keeping it straight and then some weights to add pressure.
After gluing and once more sanding time to drill 22mm hole through the round part. Legs are connected to hip like in the pictures. 599