thingie for warm plates (trivet!)

Looks fantastic Moshel

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Well done, despite the mistake, it looks pretty good as a trivet (I think that’s the word) to me. :) Since it’s not a cutting board, I wonder what it would have looked like if you had left the half hexagons out on the edges, giving an irregular shape. Interestingly, boards like that would interlock and the pattern would tesselate nicely. Of course, that would make a difficult glue up almost impossible.

thats a very cool idea. it wouldn’t make the glueup any harder, just rounding over the edges will be a bit of a pain (can be done with a file and sandpaper). in this specific case, i couldn’t do that as even the glueup of the individual hexagonal lengths (before cutting them) was problematic (too small) and most had some gap on one side. so i had to re-arrange and cut the ugly bits.

If anyone think about making this, i would recommend going with bigger hexagons (these are ~4cm side to side, i would go with 6-8cm)

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

Nice job there Moshe..,..I have gone down to 25 mm side to side… very tricky…but then where is the fun if not for a few difficulties.. LOL

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Spectacular use of grain!

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

Some great looking wood and a beautiful design.

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It looks great to me. My philosophy is make the project, you can always decide what its for later.

-- Jim Westbrooks

Larry, as many people observed (and many many more think but don’t want to offend you), you are insane and should seek professional advice :-)
If I was to do that again (and I sure don’t really want too…) I would build two clamping jigs with 120 degrees V in them to make the glueup phase less stressful.

CanalboatJim, it looks great to me as well. its just that it was meant to be 50×30cm cutting board :-)

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

Neat trivette. I need to read Lazy Larry’s blog and learn to make one. ...............LOL

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

I am getting professional advice from my personal Ratbag... you… lol mate.

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

Wow that is incredible. Very impressive

Moshel, I increased your picture to 150% and it turned into a cutting board. LOL. Looks great to me!

-- John @ Myrtle Beach

The 3D effect looks just like the video game Q-bert. Nice trivet. Q-bert would be all over that.

-- Life is about choices. You can spend a lot of money on furniture and have really nice furniture; Or you can spend a lot on tools and have even more expensive, crappy furniture. I made my choice.

Fantastic CUTTING BOARD Who ever said they had to be BIG! Just cut one roll at a time. haha

Looks great to me. Haven’t haad the nearve to try one of these, yet…

Keep ut the great work.

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

Great work! I turn my mistake cutting boards into cheese boards! Now I’ll think trivet.
That design is stunning and the natural colors of the wood are just great together.
Ellen

-- Ellen on Cape Cod

Moshel, I decreased your picture by 150% and it turned into a coster. Still looks great to me!

-- Mike, Waukesha, WI

A piece of art…nice work

-- Ray,Iowa

the first 1 i made was from this size blocks i feel for you that is a very hard glue up
the 2nd 1 i made was 3 inches (7.5cm to you) was a lot easer
your glue lines look great nice and tight wall done

Good save on a piece that would have probably been destined for the scrap pile. I think it looks great.

I like the name “thingie” cause I can never remember trivet.

-- Doug, New Mexico.......the only stupid question is one that is never asked!........don't fix it, if it ain't broke!

Beautiful job! Thanks for sharing.

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If this project is the result of errors, I would love to see what your good completed projects look like…
I think this one turned out pretty good considering…

its not that my good projects looks nicer than the mistakes, they are just larger :-)

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

Larry, if i were to make tiny hexagons i think i would glue 7 of the long hexagon cylinders (damn, is there a word for this?) – one in the middle and 6 around and then crosscut and glue. need to keep very tidy glue lines for this but it should work.

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

wow, that is really cool! It is fun to see wood used to create this illusion of depth.