Various Smaller Projects

This is a picture of a maple pizza cutting board (left), an Oak and Poplar pizza peel (right), and a pizza cutting wheel (center) with a hand turned zebra wood handle. The cutting board was made from 4 maple boards glued and rounded with a router. The peel also glued from individual boards, then shaped using some templates and a router. The peel's front edge was cut at a 5-degree angled slope to allow pizza dough to be slid on/off the peel easily.

Another project utilizing some scrap wood pieces was slightly more complex. This stand serves as a charging station for a Pixel watch. The stand incorporates the Pixel charging puck, embedded into the top piece of wood. The wood pieces were hollowed out, and grooves were created to allow the charging cable to be mostly concealed, resulting in a neater appearance.

This photo shows the back side of the same stand. Notice that a couple of wooden pieces are screwed to the stand, which mostly conceal the charging cable. The use of screws allows for disassembly to remove the charging cord and puck if necessary. Google charges an outrageous $30 for this, so I wanted the option to remove the cable in case I needed to use the charger elsewhere.

This photo shows a solid oak holder (partly made from scraps) with individually cut pairs of pegs that slide into slotted grooves in the stand. The spacing between the pegs can be adjusted by changing each pair's slot. Each peg is a half-inch square, rounded at each corner.

Although the holder is adjustable, it was difficult to stack different lids efficiently. Some of the pots have very thick lids and tall handles.

This picture shows how the pegs that hold the lids are glued together in pairs, and then the pairs fit into a slot on the base.

This allows for adjusting the placement of the pegs based on the size of the lid.

It seems that the clichéd wood project is to build a cutting board. This one was made with the help of a friend's CNC machine. Layers of maple, walnut, and mahogany were stacked and glued, and then the CNC cut the outer edge and the juice groove.

Rather than creating a simple cylindrical rolling pin, it seems more creative to layer a few different woods to form a pattern. This image shows two blocks of maple and some unspecified dark wood (the species of which I don't recall) used to make the rolling pin.

The completed rolling pin turned out larger than most standard rolling pins, measuring 2.75 inches in diameter and featuring a 13-inch roller. The more challenging aspect of this project was crafting and assembling the handles.

This is a simple stand made from an oak base with natural varnish and a vertical piece of maple. The maple piece connects to an oak dowel that holds the headphones or any other item that fits on the dowel. The dowel passes through the maple piece and is glued in place. As shown the stand hold a few additional small items like a pocketknife and a remote button.

I needed a stand for my speaker, but I couldn't justify spending $50 on one. Instead, I used some scrap pine boards, and scrap 2x2s stained with a medium-dark stain. The height of the stand was 1-2 inches short, so I added some 2x4s underneath for feet.

This should not count as a project, but here it is anyway. This was purely a finishing project, as coasters were purchased from a craft store. I sanded, stained, and applied numerous coats of urethane on the coasters (only one is shown). After all that, the finish was uneven and would have required additional buffing and coats to fix.