{"id":7255,"date":"2025-10-03T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7255"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:20:08","slug":"my-journey-into-model-gear-cutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7255","title":{"rendered":"My Journey into Model Gear Cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my last post I mentioned that a fellow Guild member had a couple of new boxed examples off the Shogun units. He kindly shared some photos of them which with his permission I will share here so that you can see what we are aiming for in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DS-Shogun3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DS-Shogun3-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7257\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DS-Shogun3-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DS-Shogun3-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DS-Shogun3.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DS-Shogun2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DS-Shogun2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7256\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DS-Shogun2-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DS-Shogun2-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DS-Shogun2.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the accompanying data sheet <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Shogun.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Shogun-725x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Shogun-725x1024.jpeg 725w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Shogun-212x300.jpeg 212w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Shogun-768x1085.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Shogun.jpeg 863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will note the bit about a &#8216;special&#8217; axle. I checked mine and the bushes are under the standard 3\/16 axles that we traditionally use so I plan to drill and ream mine out to 3\/16 making the drive gear to suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post I mentioned that a fellow Guild member had a couple of new boxed examples off the Shogun units. He kindly shared some photos of them which with his permission I will share here so that you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7255\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear-cutting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7259,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255\/revisions\/7259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}