Some thank you gifts

Thanksgiving was great this year. We focused on the people in our lives we are grateful for. And what better way to say thank you than with wood :) The band saw box was an inspiration from Woodworking for Mere Mortals. Steve’s video demystified band saw boxes for me and I thought I would try it out. It is a chunk of my cherry tree that I pruned a couple of years ago. I saved the trimmings under my workbench. Luckily we have dry hot summers in Spokane and it was bone dry when I cut it up. This was a gift for my nurse preceptor this semester. The second is a cutting board for my friends’ apartment. I used scrap maple that I found in the shop along with some breadboard ends made out of black walnut that I found for free in a scrap bin in front of a neighbor’s house. I don’t have a biscuit joiner so I just edge glued it with some titebond waterproof glue. Hope it holds up…but if not I get the excuse to make another one.
I have been working nights lately so I need to make some more thank you…and p.s. don’t call the cops…presents for my neighbors. I seem to be most interested in woodworking at 3am. I do, however, turn off the router between 10pm and 8am. Hope it isn’t too loud guys.