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This was my woodworking item for the 2019 Beer Swap. I made them for LJ Steve . I decided to use my Ringmaster to make a can koozie and made a simple prototype using Douglas Fir that I re-sawed from a 4×4 with a bradford pear rim (4th and 5th picture, right koozie). The quarter sawn vertical grain resulted in a really cool pattern on the side. The rings were cut about 1/4" thick, glued on and turned and sanded on the lathe so that the walls are about 1/8" thick. The prototype turned out to be a little rough due to tearout of the DF endgrain so I made a second one to send to Steve from silver maple with a walnut rim. It had a somewant punky heartwood that I managed to orient to form nice pattern.
I personally like my beer poured into a glass so I ordered some can shaped glasses that were supposedly the same diameter as a standard can but proved to be about 3/8" larger in diameter. I decided to make a larger koozie just for the glass. Again I started with a Doug fir prototype but the koozie exploded as I was shaping the second to last ring. I then used some wedges I had left over from the vase I made last year to make a second one and managed to complete it without totally screwing it up. This was made by gluing walnut and maple wedges together, cutting it into squares and cutting rings on the Ringmaster. Here is a picture before glue up.
BTW, I was able to find all of the pieces of the doug fir glass koozie and glue it back together to make a glass koozie for myself. It had less chipout than the first prototype but you can definitely see the glue lines where I put the piece back together so I decided the maple and walnut one was a better one to send.
You can see the beer that I sent Steve along with the 2 koozies I sent here. His pictures are are probably better than mine so you can check those out too.
I personally like my beer poured into a glass so I ordered some can shaped glasses that were supposedly the same diameter as a standard can but proved to be about 3/8" larger in diameter. I decided to make a larger koozie just for the glass. Again I started with a Doug fir prototype but the koozie exploded as I was shaping the second to last ring. I then used some wedges I had left over from the vase I made last year to make a second one and managed to complete it without totally screwing it up. This was made by gluing walnut and maple wedges together, cutting it into squares and cutting rings on the Ringmaster. Here is a picture before glue up.
BTW, I was able to find all of the pieces of the doug fir glass koozie and glue it back together to make a glass koozie for myself. It had less chipout than the first prototype but you can definitely see the glue lines where I put the piece back together so I decided the maple and walnut one was a better one to send.
You can see the beer that I sent Steve along with the 2 koozies I sent here. His pictures are are probably better than mine so you can check those out too.