windmill oak miniature spinnenkop

This mill has a concrete base and brick stone walls. According to annotations on the drawing the mill wasn't built like this. It had a stone founda...

The Water that is pumped by the mill has a exit called "waterloop". It houses a door to keep the water on the high side of the mill out (like a hor...

The "Stoelbalk" and the "wervel" are the parts on which the main spindle rests. The wervel is made so it can be moved to fine tune the running of t...

[Image] To prevent the mill from blowing over it is anchored to the concrete foundations. In my model i'm not using any concrete and this windmil...

The lower part of this mill is cladded in wood. I want the cladding to be removable so i can access the inner works and also to be able to show wha...

The screw's main baring is what's next on the to-do list. [Image] In the real world the main baring is usually made of stone, But occasionally it...

On the drawing there is a small bit showing how the mill is situated [Image] So i will try to recreated that. First by laying it out on a sheet o...

Next on my worklist is the "schroefbak". It's the part where the screw is placed in. On the drawing this is made of concrete. [Image] The mill is...

This time a simple part: the main spindle of the mill [Image] Just a square piece of oak [Image] Adding some stopped chamfers [Image] Using a...

In the previous blog a made the "onder tafelment", now I am going to make the "boven tafelment" (onder is under and boven is upper). It is located ...

This part of the mill is called "koker" and can be translated as tube. It is part of the bottom part of the windmill and allows the main drive shaf...

Having finished the "onder tafelment" and the "boven tafelment", now I will make the posts, and because the shape of the underside of this windmill...