Christmas gift dilemma once again!

11/24/18, 1:10 PM #1

Tom Norton
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Christmas gift dilemma once again!

Tom Norton

I try, every few years, to make gifts from the shop for all my brothers, sisters,neices and nephews. So it has to be a "production run". I have been looking online but am not getting inspired.

I now turn to you folks for some ideas!

Let the show begin!

Thanks

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11/24/18, 1:23 PM #2

Kneale Brownson
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I've made these magnetic note hangars with rare earth magnets for attaching to the fridge. Did a little woodburning on them.

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

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11/24/18, 1:31 PM #3

Kevin French
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Not woodworking but these grinder light are always a hit and only one special tool needed a 1/8-27NPT(tap) I add a figurine tube to it but it looks fine without it.

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11/30/18, 4:05 AM #4

David Hay
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David Hay

One year made everyone a nice pen. Good way to learn some woodturning and use up some scraps. Pretty easy project to batch up.

David

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11/30/18, 4:54 PM #5

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Do you have a lathe? If so, what size.

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12/2/18, 4:25 PM #6

Tom Pilsbury (Chicago)
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Like you Tom, I also do "production run" gifts at Christmas time. It's a great way to use up scraps too. Here are a few ideas that you can knock out in a day or two. Bird feeders. Incense holders. Wine glass holders.

Christmas gift dilemma once again!

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