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I have a client who’s wife didn’t like picking up her big mixer and moving it on the counter. It was very heavy and cumbersome for her. She said she wanted a “rolling cutting board” out of oak that would be able to hold up and slide the mixer on top of the counter.
I told her husband I’d cook something up and laminated up a few pieces of quartersawn oak to make a cutting board and then I put some good ol’ shop casters to the trick. Most people use these for roller tables for their workpieces. I just mortised them in to make it lower profile and they work great. The piece is 12”x18” and 1” thick.
-- Thomas Porter, Phoenix, AZ, www.thomasporter.com
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WayneC
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posted 513 days ago
Very innovative. It looks real functional.
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oscorner
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posted 513 days ago
Nicely done! Those casters look like they would mark up the counter, but I guess that they do not. Is the counter formica?
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dennis mitchell
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posted 513 days ago
Interesting I wonder how well it works having a mixer on wheels? Could be great.
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Thomas Porter
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posted 513 days ago
On my counter, yes they would. Formica and stainless don’t mix. It makes wierd slug-like streaks wherever it goes. It cleans off, but I’m not sure what the reaction between the two is. My client’s won’t. They have granite.
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MsDebbieP
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posted 513 days ago
Great idea
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CharlieM1958
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posted 513 days ago
Cool!
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Louis Hill
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posted 512 days ago
very nice looking quarter sawn oak there! thats a great idea too!!!
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Don
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posted 426 days ago
Interesting solution – I have visions of the lady turning her back on the mixer and finding it on the floor. Does the board have breaks? LOL.
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Thomas Porter
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posted 425 days ago
Her mixer must be very well balanced because it doesn’ move much at all. I had thought this would be a problem, but it wasn’t in this particular case. I told her if it did that I would install something to stop any movement, but she says it works great.
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DAN
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posted 398 days ago
cool idea for the casters … small pieces of uhmw might work too
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mot
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posted 394 days ago
I was wondering about sliding on the cupboard, but you answered that with their granite top. Really a good idea.
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Bill
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posted 394 days ago
Nice job Thomas. A great solution to the problem. Nice to see your postings again.
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