Wed, 28 Nov 2007

coffee scoop
For my first turning project after getting back into the game, I decided to go small and turn a coffee scoop. It comes in the same sort of kit that the pens do, where you buy the brass parts and turn the handel out of whatever. I started with what appeared to be a really nicely patterned wood blank that I had laying around, but by the time I turned it down to size, there was no more interesting grain patterns left. So I bailed out on that before I assembled it, because it was really boring looking. And lets face it - if you're making your own coffee scoop, "boring looking" isn't really a desiralbe quality. The 3 plastic ones I already have were "boring looking" - I might as well have just stuck with those.

50 cents for a new brass tube insert later, and I found a piece of (what I think is) ziricote or bacote that was too short to make 2 halves of a pen, but plenty long enough for a coffee scoop handle in my pile-o-randomness. The end result is pictured throughout this post. I think it came out pretty nice.