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Used to carry a child behind the wedding party, this wedding wagon was built with dowel joints instead of nails or screws.
The project
This project has been built with no nails or screws. I used dowels for all joints.
When finished, it will be used as a wedding wagon to pull a small child behind the wedding party.
Visualising wheel placement.
Fitting wheels and turntable.
It's approximately 550mm long and 380mm wide at the top. The slats were around 200mm long angled at around 10 degrees. It is made entirely out of timber, except for the metal axles and hinge bolt.
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Hi @PennyHodder
My approach to the wagon project.
I used this wed site as a guide for my needs
https://www.miniwagons.com/flower-girl-wagons/
For plans I used the following breakdown of a wagon
I then dragged this photo into a cad program (fusion 360) and scaled for material size what is not shown is the turn table for the front wheels, which was not an issue anyway.
Material used was pre-painted 30mm x 30mm pine I think Bunnings has it but uncoated not an issue
construction :-
for strength mortis and tenon for rails (sides and front) The other method is to dowel the rails However you will need to use a quality self centring jig which you can get from Carbatec or Timbecon if you go down this track do not use the so called off the shelf self centring jigs this type of jig will give you the precision need to for alignment
wheels :- I used the following site for the ease of making wheels
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Replica-Wagon-Wheel Use this as a guide to suite the wheel size however I would lay out the spoke placement first by drawing the vertical line and the horizontal line followed by the 45 deg lines use a speed square for this Bunnings sell a couple of types and sizes, then swing the circle size.
once you cut the segments drill the holes for the spokes before you cut the shape of the wheel. use a band saw if possible.
the hub if you have access to a wood turning lathe the hub can be set up to turn the hub diameter
For the assembly I only glue and dowel when movement is involved it's a lot more work but you finish with a better product. where possible I will use traditional methods like mortis and tenon
The hardest part of this project will be the fitting of the wheels. The axels I suggest you use 40mm x 40mm drill 12.5mm down the centre of the axel at least 75mm then drill a hole through the top side to suite a M12 nut grab a M12 bolt that will be the length to pass through the hub of the wheel plus the length to screw into the nut. you will need to make 4 large washers to place between the wheel and the axel to stop binding of the wheel on the axel.
If you send me a PM on this site I will give you a couple of drawing for the axle with measurement for the nut placement
I then sent it out to be two pack painted
For this project do not use the following
Standard twist drills they are not for drilling wood, use brad point drills which are for drilling timber.
spade drill they wonder and do not give a clean cut
Good luck with your project
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