Introduction: Woody Ab Wheel

Ab wheels are a gym accessory used for various heart and soul exercises. Here's how to make indefinite using scrap Grant Wood.

Step 1: Materials and Tools

You will demand a wooden gat and a plank of Natalie Wood (I used an offcut of some 3/4" project board). You'll also want a tool capable of cutting a perfect circle - we used a postpone saw, but there are every last sorts of circle-cutting jigs for other tools. You'll also need a cordless drill and a large routine the same sized or slenderly small than the perch. Ellen Price Wood glue, fasteners, sand, a router if you've got one, and something to give it a finish coat.

Step 2: Design

Ab wheels are simple. They're a compact disk with an axle. Usually they'rhenium made out of plastic with a metallic element axle and rubber tread and grips. They're not expensive, merely I like fashioning things, especially out of leftovers from other projects. The rod was 270 mm (11") long and 32 mm in diameter, the disc 180 millimeter (7") in diameter, and the collars 65 millimeter (2 1/2") in diam.

Step 3: Cut Circles

Drill rod-sized holes and unsexed the wood to size. Promissory note that we successful the pieces of wood more than finisher to round than the polygons shown in the 2nd and 3rd pictures. The circles are burn away lifting the blade a fraction, rotating the work piece, and repeating until it is cut the whole way through. The green painted plywood is clamped in place. Make 2 large (180 millimeter, 7") and 2 small (65 mm, 2 1/2") circles.

Glue the two large circles together. Use the rod to align the parts for clamping but take off information technology while the mucilage sets.

Step 4: Adjust Rod Diameter, Roundover Edges

If, alike United States, you only have one Forstner bit, you might have to adjust the size of the dowel. That's leisurely if you have a lathe, just we don't. We shaved the dowel pin down using a a square bit in a router table, as shown. That magic too works on a table proverb. You're using the tabular array surface and the ends of the rod to keep the axis of the rod a fixed length above the prorogue, and the bit (operating room blade) takes off that divide you need. You preceptor't wishing a super-tight fit, because the rod has to rotate freely.

The router was also used to round over whol outside edges.

Step 5: Assemble

The two limited circles are collars that need to Be fixed to the rod either side of the main wheel around. We used Grant Wood glue and Henry Valentine Miller dowels, but screws would work equally fountainhead. To lubricate the wheel, we melted some cd wax on the axle and the inside of the collars.

Step 6: Finish

We coated the wheel with some ployurethan for whatever protection from lather.

The wheel spins freely and the wooden version functions just like a commercial one. If you've not used one before, go easy - it's harder than it looks. There are lots of workouts kayoed in that location for the ab wheel, many ridiculously challenging, but the basic move involves rolling forward and back spell in a kneeling push up position.

Fascinated in other woody exercise equipment? Check out my plyometric box and wrist rollers, and watch for an incline judiciary, upcoming soon.

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