[KwartzLab] Making a spoked, wooden wheel

[Kevin Martin]

If you really want utilitarian, you could use a bicycle wheel with the tire removed...

This is not beyond my capabilities, but I don't have a lathe that big, so I would have to improvise using my mill and bandsaw.
The rim would be pieced together, and a router table would be useful for making finger joints between the segments.
Given that Kwartzlab has a bandsaw and router table you should (perhaps with help) be able to make this in the lab. The mill is not essential; I would only be using it to cut the belt groove, and that could be done with a rasp as well.

-Kevin Martin
 the Papertrail Handmade Paper & Book Arts
 New Dundee, Ontario
 www.papertrail.ca

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From: discuss-bounces at kwartzlab.ca [mailto:discuss-bounces at kwartzlab.ca] On Behalf Of Punkin3.14

I'm a complete novice at woodworking, but I'm working from a very utilitarian model (i.e., non-decorative), and most of the pieces are straightforward to cut. 

The bit that I am puzzling over is the fly wheel itself. Its 19" inches across, and needs a 1/4" rounded groove along the outer edge, which the drive band fits into. [1]

Have we any knowledgeable woodworkers who would be available sometime in the next couple months, to help me make such a wheel (assuming this is not an unreasonable project for a novice -- I honestly don't know how advanced this is)?