Christmas Ornament and Adhesive Residue

[DanoInTx (Dan Nelson)]

Really nice John!!!

I recently made a boatload of ornaments. Initially I had similar problems with work holding. In the end I did this:

For the outside profiles I just used 2 sided tape and made a whole bunch of blanks.

For the inside carving I made a jig, which while a little slower than 4 at a time, caused far fewer failed pieces:

I know, I know, it's not Christmas yet, however

Made a special fixture to do the backsides with a message to who ever we gift these out to. Simple pocket in MDF, located using the same 1/4" pins I used as zero everything else, two wood screws to hold each ornament down during the cut, MDF is just 2-sided taped to my waste board. I can engrave a message (as shown below) in about 5 minutes including swapping out ornaments, I never even turn the router off (it just goes to the back of the machine after cutting). This makes it easier than doin…

I ended up doing the majority this way and it worked out great!

Dan