Wooden Key Grips

Beautiful, & you don’t need a barn full of lumber either.

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Oh, I have that, too! This just keeps me from tossing even the smaller scraps… not exactly conducive to having the cleanest shop!

-- Ethan, http://www.merganserwoodworks.com, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

Ethan, these are great! I am assuming that you make these in two halves which are then glued together around the key head. Is this correct? I drive a Beemer which has a fairly large key head. I know it’s a smart key loaded with circuitry. I doubt that I could make one for it, because the result would be one giant key head.

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I learned early on that to avoid having such a huge key grip I could use my Dremel and a metal cutting disk to trim the sides of the key off, almost making it a “tenon” of sorts. But yes, I “let” the metal key grip into one half of a piece of wood I’ve split in two. On some kinds of wood, like the maple, the line is pretty visible. On the Blackwood, however, you’d be hard-pressed to find the seam.

Yeah, yours is a very common situation I’ve run across lately, Don. Chips in key grip and chips in the key itself have make it pretty difficult to do this to most late-model vehicles.

But for older classic cars, this works quite well. I haven’t done a house key yet, though I assume it would work just as well…

-- Ethan, http://www.merganserwoodworks.com, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

These are cool. I like the different grains.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Ethan -

Very cool!

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I’m continuing to find some real treasures amongst these back numbers. These are a delight!

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So cool. Favorited!

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Great job Ethan. I bet house keys would be a big hit, especially since they do not have that circuitry like the car keys.

Maybe you can also make a “key cover” that will fit a variety of keys. Someone could just buy it and slip it on themselves. If it is on a keyring, then it is not likely to fall off of the key. It would save you time and may make them more in demand.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Dick are you talking to me and Frank about a barn full of lumber?

Great idea on the keys.

Do you give them as gifts for an unknown lock, and make them find it in order to get the rest of the present.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

This just randomly came up on my LumberJocks homepage today. These are VERY cool!

-- Eric at http://adventuresinwoodworking.com

This just came up for me too. I did some a few years ago, got the same idea for them in the same FWW article..
I was doing some interiors in some MG,s and Triumphs. Doing the dash’ s and knobs, Doing the keys worked right in.

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What a unique ideal. Very nice.

-- Bud, NY, http://tpww.libsyn.com/

What a great idea, and they look great. Nice work.

-- Michael A. Brailsford

Cool idea….

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Very cool.

Woody.

-- Woody, UK

By the title, I thought he meant little wooden people who get listed in movie credits.

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