Welcome to Make Something
with me David Picciuto. Today we have a really fun
and easy project.It It is
making these scoops on the bandsaw. Today's project comes from my brand new
book, Make Your Own Kitchen Tools. We're going to make a couple of scoops. Mostly we're going to be using this bench
top band saw this is the Rikon 10-305, and it's got a 3/16th, 4 TPI
skip tooth blade in there. That's the only blade I ever used
in this bandsaw when cutting wood. I've got this piece of mahogany that was
given to me by a friend a long time ago and is not thick enough.
And it is rough cuts. So what I need to do is flatten one side,
cut it in half and glue it together. So I've got two nice flat faces. Glue is dried. I took off the clamps and now we need
to rough out the final dimensions of our blank. Just going to do it on the bandsaw. It doesn't matter that the
blade leaves a rough surface.
So went ahead and drew the profile
on the end grain of this blank. And we're going to cut
it out on the band saw. I want to cut just inside that line
and I want to do it in one continuous motion. I don't want to back out, and then we enter it because it's going
to affect the grew up and the next step. Now that that is cut out.
We can slide this back, glue it and clamp it together.
There are going to be huge gaps in there
in the glue up. Don't worry about it. We're going to fill it later. Just use plenty of glue now to kind of
fill in that space as much as you can. Don't worry about it too much. This isn't
just, don't worry about it too much. Just add some glue, clamp it together. And try to clean out as much as that
glue squeeze out inside as you can, because once that dries, that's going
to be really difficult to remove. That has been drying for awhile
there's gaps in there. We'll fix that. So the next thing I need to do is
draw the handle profile right here, and then cut that out on the bandsaw. Now that we have that bottom profile out, we're going to draw another line that
kind of curves up from the bottom and then comes up here to shape that handle.
So now over here at the spindle
sander, I'm going to shape the handle, get rid of those rough edges and
make sure it feels good in the hand. I'm going to do all the rough shaping
here and then do the final shaping over at the workbench. So now, before we do our final shaping,
I'm just going to draw a little, a little curve right here to create
a, the front edge of the scoop. So we'll just do one of these. We'll cut that on the bandsaw. Check that out. In the book, I take a random orbit sander to get
everything nice and smooth and to blend in all those curves. Today, I'm
gonna try something different. I'm gonna use some hand tools and
I'm just going to carve a bunch of little divots in there.
You could
also do this with a Dremmel, but I think I want to do my final
shaping and just give it this nice hand texture all the way around and the carved texture on there will also
hide any kind of non-symmetrical curves that you have in there and
give it a really nice organic shape. So this is probably going to take
a while.
Throw on a good podcast and just have some fun. Jimmy Diresta up Bob Clagett and myself
have had a podcast for over five years with almost 300 episodes.
It is called Making It. So you might want to check that out. I
don't have a lot of experience with this, so I'm not saying this is
the right way to do it, but it is the fun way to do it. And me having fun while doing this is the most important thing. I'm just
trying to get a texture on there. To fill in those gaps from the glue up, I'm just going to take
some glue and some sawdust, and it'll have somewhat of
the same color as the wood, since you're using the same wood. And we can let that dry for a
few minutes and sand that away. So I've got all those gaps
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a food safe oil for these scoops. You wipe it on you wipe it off.
I didn't clean up all my glue. So there's some glue
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of the premium membership. Thank you, Skillshare for sponsoring today's Video. Got a couple of errors I still need to
fix should have done a better job of pointing up my glue. This is
a project from my new book, Make Your Own Kitchen Tools okay. In
the book, I did not do the texture. So whether or not you like the texture,
doesn't matter.
It's still a fun, easy project. Now I'm just wiping
off all the extra oil and wax. If you want to keep it food,
you can use paraffin oil. You can use mineral oil,
uh, cutting board oil. You can mix all of them together. If you want to find the formula that
works for you, this is Odie's Oil. It's supposed to be food safe. It's
kind of on the pricey side. Um, but it works really well and it's
super easy to apply and it smells like it smells like cologne. You can get signed copies of
my book at makesomething.com. You can also get it on Amazon, some bookstores and woodworking
retailers. It is my third book. I also have a book just on cutting
boards and bandsaw boxes. So you may, you want to check them out as well.
Out of it, of the three textures. I think my favorite one is where I added
the least amount of texture and I put it on the sides here and it's not
along the edges or along every single crease and crevice. And that one has the most kind of like
natural look to it.
Almost like a, like an antler type look. This
didn't come up pretty cool. It feels cool to the touch, but I don't think I like it as much
as the other one. And then this one, I went in all kinds of
directions, two directions, up and down and left and
right North and South East. West. And, um, yeah, that, I don't know what to call
that. It kind of looks like, I don't know. Uh, I'm not. I don't dislike it, but it's definitely,
it's definitely not my favorite. It is cool though. Like I mentioned, in my previous video about the
band saw boxes, I, um, I'm, I want to experiment more with textures
using the drum or using the hand tools like we did today. And, um, and then
some power carving tools in the future. I think textures is a way to
add your own personal touch, to give it an organic feel, to give it that like we're using
these machines that make perfectly straight cuts all the time, like the
table saw and all these jigs and things.
And sometimes it's nice
to just have things organic, not everything has to be, if you know what I'm saying? You probably
don't because I don't either. But, um, the goal around here is just
to get a little bit more creative. I do want to get more digital
tools into my projects. I want to use the CNC a lot more and we
got a cool video coming up on the CNC and the laser cutter and 3d printing. And I want to show that these
tools don't have to be cold and lifeless.
I, they can
be a very creative way, not just for batching out things or
doing tasks that you don't want to do, but to allow you to take that creative
thought that you have in your head and get it out into the world. Something
you couldn't do with your hands. So we're really going to get
a little crazy in 2021 and do some, some fun things and
try to think outside the box. So if you like that kind of
stuff, stick around, subscribe, hit that like button,
do all that fun stuff, and we're going to have a good
time. So thank you for watching.
We'll see you in a few days with a
brand new project as always be safe, have fun, stay passionate
and make something. So I figured out what this looks like. It looks like dried
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