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Fish Trivet






Fish trivet


While I was restoring the set of Deagan Bells I was also making a gift for my friend who gave them to me. We first met in high school, he was a senior and I was a junior. Different schools but we roomed together with a host family at a state orchestra festival. He also dated my wife when they were in Jr. high.
We share a lot of interests other than music (he's a Bass player) and one of them is fly fishing. When my wife saw a picture of a fish trivet in a catalog, she suggested this as a Christmas present for him. We decided that I should try to make one instead of purchasing it.
I made a pattern from paper, cut it out and traced it on a piece of 1"x 8" poplar board.
Jig saw and scroll saw were used to cut the wood, a drill press for the holes. The pieces were sanded and hand rubbed with 3 coats of food grade walnut oil. The vertebrae were small wooden wheels from a hobby store. A length of #10 x 20TPI all thread was used to connect everything together.

I'm still deciding on how to mount it. Once it is finished, I'll post the final project.








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