Misc Kitchen Stuff #8 - Helping Hands

Now they can play with their food!

Good to see some new posts Don!

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Vincent Van Gogh -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Simple but still alot of work to make. I bet she loved to get a handmade gift like this. What was their reaction?

Diane

-- http://s205.photobucket.com/albums/bb276/DMarcella/

I’ll let you know tomorrow, Diane. It’s only mid afternoon here.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

what a brilliant idea—just keep some wood tucked away for such an occasion and voila a beautiful gift.
Love it.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Thanks for sharing this_ “Handy” project Don.
There’s a lot of us salad eaters out here.
A Big Welcome Back._

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Like it, Don! Very handy gift…...... ;)
Phil

Great idea Don.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Good to see you back.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

Oh no….thanks alot Don….my wife now wants a set, and a set for her parent, my parents, and everyone else she knows. :) You guys are killing me, perhaps I should keep my wife off this site….oh well. Keeps me out of trouble, for the most part.

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

Quote Diane: ”What was their reaction?”

They liked it and we used them – works real well.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

Here, Let me give you a hand with the salad…

Cute. Good to see you’re still with us, Mate.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

Something about displaying an eight-fingered set of hands on a woodworking sight just scares me. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

hahaha that’s funny, Charlie.. .hahahaa

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Charlie, good one – I never thought of that, but know that you mention it – yikes! LOL

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

Reminds me of my shop teacher lefty Rossman. Nice Don, where you been pal? Jockmike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

Great stuff as usual Don. That’s funny about the 8 fingers though.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

That’s all the fingers I’ve got, But, 2 thumbs.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

I think Don’s been on vacation… not a lot of projects coming up, and he looks like he’s gotten a little “happier”... along with a little more tanned.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

MAJOR idea! I’ve got a piece of birds eye maple that has never been straight since I left the store. It has every problem known to man … and heavy birds eyes. This is just the sort of smaller project that could make good use of it.

Hmmm

I could bandsaw curved faces, jig saw the shape, sand/scrape smooth, oil and voila!

-- http://nmwoodworks.com (pens & bowls, mostly)

That’s pretty cool, Don. I was just thinking that you used Homer Simpson as a hand model.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Well, I’ve never had anyone call me Homer Simpson before, Mate, but that is my hand after a little stylization. But as Charles pointed out above there is something perverse about a hand with only four fingers – especially for a woodworker. (I do have thumbs – LOL)

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/