Some quickie Christmas gifts

[bleedinblue]

Nothing you write home about here, but if you make something and dont post pictures, did it really happen?

The American flag was for my father, who is a Vietnam veteran.  I bought the union, I wanted the perfection of the CNC.  I was going to do the typical burned/stained home center pine, but realized I have piles of cherry and curly maple that bumped it up a notch.  I didn't use my best maple, but there's still some curl in there.  A very quick, easy project.

The Ulu knife sets go to my in-laws.  Nothing extraordinary here either, except since I have no lathe, I cut the bowls with a router in a jig.  Messy, but it went pretty well.  I'll attach photos of the jig when I switch to a computer.  

 

 

[pkinneb]

Really nice on both counts! 

[Chet]

2 hours ago, pkinneb said:

Really nice on both counts! 

I agree 100%

[wtnhighlander]

Sweet! The cherry / maple stripes make the flag stand head and shoulders above tge crowd!

Use a pendulum type jig for the bowls? They look really smooth. And is the knife hardware available in a kit?

[bleedinblue]

Yeah, a pendulum is a good way to describe the jig.  I used a large bowl bit from Eagle America and it left a pretty good finish, sanding wasn't as horrible as I expected.  The knife hardware was just the blade and the rivets...for the life of me I can't find the website I ordered them from, but I know I saw them at several other websites.  This was kind of a test run, if/when I make a set for myself, I'll spend more on a better knife blade.  I don't know anything about metallurgy, but these blades are pretty obviously low end.

[Brendon_t]

That bowl jig gives me the Uughs

[treeslayer]

Great work @bleedinblue I’m sure he’s going to like having that flag on the wall from you, and tell him from me “welcome home”

[Coop]

The flag is beautiful. You did right by it! The knife sets are are cool, well done. 

[Ronn W]

I asssume that the bowl blank rests on a center pin and that you gradually rotate it with your hand?

[bleedinblue]

1 hour ago, Ronn W said:

I asssume that the bowl blank rests on a center pin and that you gradually rotate it with your hand?

Yup.  It's not real clear in the picture, but there is an MDF square under the bowl blank.  The MDF has a center dowel pin that it rotates on.  The bowl blank was taped onto the MDF square.