July 31st -lazy Sunday.   Since today was the last day of July and last night was another overnight implementation at work, I figured I should finish up some projects that have been cluttering up my shop.   The first focus was to make a couple of bowls for a collaboration with a woman I work with. She is a basket weaver, and a damn good  one at that.   She actually went to school for the craft.  (No jokes about majoring in basket weaving!)  I made two perfectly good bowls out of white oak, then cut them them in half  with the band saw. Then, where the cut was made, I made a groove. If all goes according to plan, she will be able to weave the two bowls back together, using the groove I made to anchor the weaving.  The end result should be a long oblong dish like thing that would make a really good bread basket. I thought I could cut the groove using a router table or a palm router, but I couldn’t figure out anyway to get it consistent and there’s not a lot of space to work with, so any slip up would be catastrophic!  I ended up cutting the grooves freehand. Let’s hope it works! Here’s a couple pictures just to see “the before”.

Stay tuned!  When the weaver lady finishes, I’ll post pictures of what the final product looks like.