Words: Today I went over to Poppy's and we made a pizza peel. Jake and I have been making tons of homemade pizzas lately, and Jake and I wanted a peel so we can slide the built pizzas onto our pre-heated stone. We looked them up, and they average $30-$40. Yikes! I thought, hey, we can make that!
Poppy had the wood all glued together before I got there (he used maple and held the planks together with wood glue and biscuits). He had already been sanding for about 45 minutes before I arrived too.
I picked up the sander and worked on it, then Poppy drew on the curves with his homemade giant protractor (so impressed that he can calculate the arc of a curve to scale from a random picture of a pizza peel I found on the Internet). He showed me how to cut out the basic shape using a jig saw (always cut on the outside of the line!) and it took me a minute to get the hang of it. I told him that I sounded like a teenager learning to drive a car. Then more sanding, a trip through the router cutter to curve the sides, and a lot more sanding. We used the belt sander to even out the sides, then poppy used a hand held sander to flatten the sides out. We sloped the end so pizzas will slide off, then MORE sanding (with different sand paper weights) until it was perfectly smooth.
We're using this one as a template. Two more coming soon!
What you can take from this:
- Hand over the camera (or camera phone)! My grandpa took this one.
- I'll do a full blog post about making these sometime soon, so writing out the process for myself will help me to remember for the step-by-step later. I can also go back for reference for next time, when I'm doing more of the steps by myself.
- Document new hobbies. Someday, maybe I'll be amazing at woodworking. Even though this project is utilitarian and not completely awing, it will be really interesting to see the early projects later on. The process of learning is worth documenting.
This is my unplanned documentation for the day. This workshop is about documenting what matters to you, so I'm documenting what inspires me. If you get stuck, try documenting something from the Daily Doc | Nov 2012 handout. It has 30 prompts to use if you get stuck documenting. I'm tackling all the prompts month AND doing unplanned daily documentation.
If you documented today, post a link to it in the comments section!
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