glenn bradley
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My son in law stopped by yesterday with a glued up blank he wanted turned into some coasters for his co-workers. After doing that he brought up how he would like a Texas shaped trivet for his sister (who lives in Texas) to set her hot items on when doing prep or dining. I am still percolating on my own latest project and so took a detour.
I have this block that I glue random scraps to over the years.
Every now and then I slice some off and make stuff. This seemed like a good source for some end grain material for some trivets. I grabbed a public line drawing for the state of Texas and made a template.
X-Acto knifed out the paper and made a plywood template since we have multiple friends and family in Texas and so needed a template that would last a while. I know from previous experience that if I send one of them something the grapevine will have them clamoring "where's mine!?!". I wanted to stumble through one first to see if it was viable.
I'm sure many of you are familiar with the "washer as an offset or scribing tool" trick. I used a little bit of white pencil here to make it show better.
This just lets me rough cut a lot of the blank away before doing surface prep. No need to waste time preparing areas the will become spoil later on.
I then use the template to draw the lines I will use at the bandsaw.
Ta-da.
Some surface and edge sanding, a little mineral oil and there you go.
Now that I know how I will make a few more for the other folks.
I have this block that I glue random scraps to over the years.
Every now and then I slice some off and make stuff. This seemed like a good source for some end grain material for some trivets. I grabbed a public line drawing for the state of Texas and made a template.
X-Acto knifed out the paper and made a plywood template since we have multiple friends and family in Texas and so needed a template that would last a while. I know from previous experience that if I send one of them something the grapevine will have them clamoring "where's mine!?!". I wanted to stumble through one first to see if it was viable.
I'm sure many of you are familiar with the "washer as an offset or scribing tool" trick. I used a little bit of white pencil here to make it show better.
This just lets me rough cut a lot of the blank away before doing surface prep. No need to waste time preparing areas the will become spoil later on.
I then use the template to draw the lines I will use at the bandsaw.
Ta-da.
Some surface and edge sanding, a little mineral oil and there you go.
Now that I know how I will make a few more for the other folks.
