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Let's see some more pics, in process or finished models.
Rodney, wow, I was thinking of grinding something for the flange but you got the entire profile. I've purchased wheels from Gary in the past (there are two Gary's in California (Gary Watkins is one) and I get them confused). Both sell your gauge and mine. I so far just do straight wheels but he does steel wheels in curly spoke, which the machining is a bit beyond my basic knowledge, although I did carve a blank once in wood and cast some in a solder/lead mix poured in an RTV mold.
Let's see some more pics, in process or finished models.
I model in 20.3 scale and this is the tool I use to make my wheel contours. It is ground close to the the contour that Gary at Sierra Valley uses on his wheel sets. It doesn't look like it has a taper, but it does and the wheels track very well.
Rodney
Was this tool ground or WEDM? Looks good.
As I had suspected, you can grind the top flat for sharpening and not lose any of the geometry, nice.Yes, it was done on a WEDM.
Rodney