Working on the inventory. A few Ice Cream Scoops finished. One handle is what I call the, Chocolate, Strawberry and Vanilla Ice Cream Scoop. The woods are: Paduak, Wenge & Maple.
The other is just a simple Cherry.
I made a couple of scoops for Christmas presents and posted them to Pinterest
To my (pleasant) surprise it generated a request for more.
I have the process down to 30 minutes from grabbing a handle blank to ready to glue the scoop on.
Pinterest a pretty nice site, it lets you price items...
Made of laminated wood (Cherry & maple), walnut, and maple (the maple ones shown in the pic. are unfinished - a few coats of poly would do the job). Except the one with the golden scoop, all were turned free hand without referring to a template, so all handles are not identical.
Gift-making Day
The warm weather has returned and I spent the afternoon turning some gifts for a gathering my wife and I are attending next month.
They include half a dozen pens (2 hexagonal), two ice cream scoops and one cake slicer.
(The American Woodworker Feb. 2011 issue features an...
Turning Ice Cream Scoop handles.
I did a couple of Ice cream scoop handles this afternoon.
The second one took 30 minutes from grabbing the blank to ready to glue on the scoop.
Here's a quick photo log of the action (all times in Military format).
1. 1630, grabbed the blank and put it in the...
Before I start ripping into my Brazillian Cherry with the new table saw I have a question. Should I switch out to my Freud Full kerf ripping blade or not? I don't want to mess up the factory measurements for the fence but I want a very clean cut with no tear outs.
Any advice - experience...