A little package sent off to my sister

[bobs64ford352]

I figured I'd get a few things out of the way at once: her house warming gift, Christmas and her Birthday, next January I made everything out of birds eye maple. The pizza cutter and ice cream scoop are finished with CA glue and the cutting board was saturated in a couple doses of mineral oil and beeswax.

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Thanks for looking
Bob

[Big Dave]

How'd you turn that cutting board flat on the lathe?



Nice work!

[Arlin Eastman]

Bob

Another great project. Did you get the hardware from PSI?

Arlin

[dartman]

Nice job.I love the birds eye,it is one of my favorite woods
and it looks great.

[Arlin Eastman]

Alan

I had to laugh to myself when I read your post. The very first pen I made was for my father who loved Birdseye maple and when I finished it had only 1 eye.

Sometime I will find a piece with a lot of them and make him another.

Thanks for posting I needed to laugh tonight.

Arlin

[dartman]

Always glad help out......lol

[Steve K]

Very nice gifts! If your sister is anything like mine, she will cherish those for sure.

[bobs64ford352]

Thanks for the comments everyone. My sister and I never really got along that well, but I figured what the hey. My dad told me recently she always talks about all the work I post on FB and make for others. Since she just bought her first house and my dad is always on my case about her I figured I'd do something nice for her.

The hardware was psi for the ice cream scoops and out of the 3 styles of scoops, I've made, these are the best to me. The have a solid feel, they look good and the best part is they are turned like a pen, with a bushing set. Once turned I just epoxied in the parts. The pizza cutter is from rockler.

As far as the cutting board...well, if you don't know how to turn thin rectangles on a lathe by now, then you never will...

Bob

[chips ahoy]

Bob
You should be proud of yourself to do this for your sister. I am sure she will cherish those forever. Beautiful work, she won't be able to help but love them. And who knows, may bring you both closer together.

Mel

[Woodshop]

nice work Bob