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Nice, just posted that I’d like to see these after viewing your maple tray. Thanks. Hadn’t thought of this idea for scrap wood. Thanks for the idea. Keep em coming.

-- Jeff, South Carolina

well cash it would look to me like all these fancy kitchen tools are gettin you invited to some pretty cool parties !! call me sheltered but i gotta ask , dirty santa ?? is there like a website for that sort of thing ? or maybe you could do a blog ? lol kiddin aside nice tools !

Very nice, I really like the cherry one.

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

It’s a great game and works even better with gag gifts. We played with a mix of regular gifts and ornaments, with a $10 limit.
dirty santa is where everyone brings a gift. Everyone draws a number. The person with #1 gets to pick and open a gift. #2 can either steal #1’s gift if they like it or open another gift. If a gift is stolen, the person who was stolen from gets to either open another gift or steal from someone else but not the person who stole their gift. This keeps going in order. You decide ahead of time how many times a gift can be stolen. After it reachs the limit on steals that gift is frozen and can no longer be stolen. At the end of the game whoever had the first draw (#1) gets to pick any gift that is not frozen, or keep the one that they have.

-- Joey, Magee, Ms http://woodnwaresms.com

Great gift and a way to make some money. Good tool hunting with you newfound riches.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

That’s the plan, If I had gotten this idea earlier, maybe that new vacuum press would be under the christmas tree by now. The ladies that want them are all giving them to there children’s teachers, friends at work, and stocking stuffers for in-laws.

-- Joey, Magee, Ms http://woodnwaresms.com

Great gift idea Joey.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Very nice. I’ll have to try my hand on a couple.

-- Maplewood, MN

this is great. Thanks for posting it…

Now I can make my own—and make a left-handed one. (often utensils come with a slanted lip AND a scooped out bowl area—that are set up for right-handed people.)

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

the first one that i made was left handed, by mistake. I didn’t even think about it being left or right. these are rounded for a scoop out.

-- Joey, Magee, Ms http://woodnwaresms.com

Took a quick stab at this while having a little insomnia last night. If you don’t mind, what was your process? I cheated and grabbed a stainless steel fork and spoon that you would expect to be used in serving salad. I used them for guidance. I cut the rough shape one the bandsaw and used sanding drums on my drill press to do some shaping. This made the handle fairly simple to shape. I have a difficult time invisioning the finished scoop within the blank. I cut or sanded away the obvious waste, but haven’t attempted to shape the scoop. Any tips or strategies, or is this one of those, “you can either see it or you can’t” type of things?

-- Jeff, South Carolina

It’s a shallow scoop. i draw the side profile out on some poster board and cut it out and lay that on the side of the bland and use it as a reference for shaping. It gets easier to see it in your mind after you do a couple. It’s not a big scoop though, just a subtle scoop. i have a rigid oscilating belt/drum sander, and i use the belt sander on it.

-- Joey, Magee, Ms http://woodnwaresms.com