Scroll Holder 1

My daughter Tracey and son-in-law Jon, wanted me to make a scroll holder that could be displayed on a table or desk which had their wedding vows inside of it. Now this scroll holder would need to resemble something out of the renaissance period, which would compliment the wedding present that I made them back in October.

Tracey gave me some dimensions of the scroll and said she wanted this holder to be as small as possible. After bouncing some ideas back and forth, I thought this would be another fun project.

Working With Wood

I'm going to use the same type of wood I used on her wedding gift, which was douglas fir (aka...a common 2" X 4"). The first thing I did was run this piece through my planer and then picked the best area to work with.

Once I had the both surfaces nice and smooth, I cut the width on my table saw.

Next I ran the board through my bandsaw giving me a 1/2" thick piece. And the not-so-smooth surface the saw produced was just what I was looking for. This semi-rough surface will match the wedding gift exactly and should look nice once it's finished. But now it's time to work with a different material so I'll come back to the wood working later.

Working With Metal

I'm using 1/16" thick mild steel below, just like I did on the wedding project. In fact, this material was left over from that pervious project. I clamped the steel sheet to my milling machine table and then cut it with my angle grinder and a cut-off wheel.

Next I clamped my work piece under some wood tooling (arrows) and milled all the edges to size.

Here is a close-up of the steel under the wood (arrows). The size is 17" X 3".

I made a cheat sheet for all the hole locations along with the tangent points for the radii too.

Here I'm making some 1/4" diameter holes for the bolts that will go around the perimeter.

I switched to a 3/8" diameter end mill for the corners at each end. This will make sense later.

Here I'm setting my dividers to a two inch radius.

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