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Steve Rasmussen

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Granddaughter's first Christmas gift

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The box was created after I had finished the contents. The box construction is a pinned hinged with shaped sides/front/top. The box sides are maple and the lid is a piece of figured walnut.

Each rattle has a bird's eye maple center and various species for the caps.

The smallest has cherry caps, the middle one has Wenge caps with a veneer layer of mahogany and the largest has holly caps. Dry red beans are inside each rattle. They each have a unique sound. They all have a salad bowl finish on them.

I also posted a short blog with some construction details.

When I made this her family was living with us. A couple years later they moved into their own home. Sometime after that they discovered the smallest rattle was missing. For several years the box only held 2 rattles. Then last year we found the smallest rattle stuck inside another toy! The collection is once again complete.

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Pottz commented 4 months ago

very cool steve. love the process on making these.

working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.

HokieKen commented 4 months ago

Awesome gift Steve!

Steve Rasmussen commented 4 months ago

Thanks guys!

987Ron commented 4 months ago

nicely done. Be a treasure for her

Ron

Corelz125 commented 4 months ago

Real nice looking gift

Jim Jakosh commented 4 months ago

Very nice ,Steve!!

Cheers, Jim ........................ Variety is the spice of life...............Learn something new every day

Steve Rasmussen commented 4 months ago

Thanks for the comments!

Tom Regnier commented 4 months ago

Great gift grandpa!

RyanGi commented 4 months ago

Beauty!

Ryan/// ~sigh~ I blew up another bowl. Moke told me "I made the inside bigger than the outside".

Oldtool commented 4 months ago

Nicely done grandpa, isn't it fun to make things for grandchildren. They'll always have great memories from our craft made gifts. 👍

Steve Rasmussen commented 4 months ago

Thanks for the comments!
Oldtool - I've been making a Christmas and Birthday gift for each one. They are now 7 and 9.
I'm starting to run out of ideas 😀
And now I get to start over with a 3rd one this Christmas.
I've got about a third of them posted here so far.

awsum55 commented 4 months ago

Cool story Steve and great job on well thought out gift. I have never been able to get a constant reveal when I turn very thin laminations on the lathe. For some reason I always seem to see the difference in the thickness of each wood exposed. The symmetry especially of your middle rattle looks spot on perfect. I can tell some love went into these.

.................. John D....................

Steve Rasmussen commented 4 months ago

Thanks John!