Easy project - high spouse approval ratings

[Mr Ed]

For what I reckon must be several years now I've been promising to make some new trivets (pot stands) for the kitchen, to replace some that have broken. These took about 30 minutes to make and have generated high levels of kudos - I recommend it to you all.

I don't think much of an explanation of how they are made is needed. They are 200mm square, made of oak using the router table.

The only trick is to set the cutter to just slightly more than half the thickness to get clean transitions between the verticals and horizontals.

Happy routing.

Cheers, Ed

 

[OPJ]

You say you did them on the router table... Did you add a couple of stops to your fence, one front and one at the back?

 

[Mr Ed]

You say you did them on the router table... Did you add a couple of stops to your fence, one front and one at the back?

Yep, exactly that. Worked out the distances and then clamped a couple of blocks onto the fence, one at each end of the cut. Then drop the work onto the cutter at the start, lift it off at the end.

Cheers, Ed

 

[Waka]

That'll get you more brownie points with the wife than my cabinet is getting me.

Got a few of them but I think we bought them years ago.

 

[PAC1]

Genius. What gave you the idea?

 

[Mr Ed]

Can't claim credit for the idea, although I also can't really remember where I saw it first. Maybe I did think of it.... :?

Cheers, Ed

 

[Tierney]

Very nice, my wife also likes them.

What finish did you use & did you take a number of passes to get the depth?

Regards,

David

 

[Mr Ed]

What finish did you use & did you take a number of passes to get the depth?

Hi David

The finish is just a quick wipe with Danish Oil, although I think they would probably be OK with nothing on.

The slots were routed in one pass, which strictly speaking is a heavier cut than desirable. The material is 17mm thick, so the cuts were 9mm from each side. It was done with a large and powerful router in the table using a 10mm 1/2" shank cutter so I assessed it would be OK, which it was. Even with the use of stop blocks I think it would be tricky to get the ends of the cuts to align perfectly if it was done in more than one pass. That said, if you're not comfortable taking a cut that heavy in one pass, don't do it.

Cheers, Ed

 

[Tierney]

Thanks, I am generally too impatient to take more than one pass!

David

 

[Russ]

Great use of a router.. Very impressed!!!

 

[Setch]

If you're uncomfortable taking all that in 1 bite, you could setup the table with your intended cutters, then swap in an undersize cutter, and take away the bulk of the wood in several passes, before replacing the correct cutter, and taking it to finished dimensions in one pass.

 

[johnf]

Hi Ed

heres my attempt 14mm thick 1/2" cutter two layers oak grain opposed to resist cupping

 

[Mr Ed]

Nice one John.

Yes the cupping is a potential issue, one of mine has gone a bit. I found that if you lie it on the worktop the other way up it goes back overnight!

Cheers, Ed

 

[Ironballs]

Yours look good too John, it's nice to knock out some fairly simple pieces every now and then. Keeps the morale up in the winter gloom and cold

 

[DaveL]

Well these are not for LOML, they are for a friend that used to work with me, she brought in the end of the work top to me and I made it into waffles. :? :wink:

I resawed the board in half and then just routed groove on both sides, she was well please with the finished result. 8)

 

[Ironballs]

Very good Dave, plus your workbench looks about as cluttered as mine does at the minute as well!

 

[motownmartin]

My version of the Trivet, Have a few off cuts to use up especially 6 inch wide oak and some European Walnut (more sap wood than anything), suprisingly it only took 2 1/2 hours considering all the work with 5 separate pieces.

 

[Mr Ed]

A nice variation on the theme Martin.

Cheers, Ed

 

[johnf]

Nice

 

[OPJ]

Nice work, Martin.