Handmade Christmas gifts

Poppop

Here's a few gifts I made for my family's "Handmade Christmas".

Desktop phone holder made with a router.

Veggie/garden box.

Rain gauge post with routered rain drops.

Some signs made with a Router.

Spin the pointer for an easy excuse out of work.

MitchellMc

Lovely work @Poppop! I trust your family were delighted with the amount of work and attention to detail you've put into these projects.

What sort of router are you using for these?

Many thanks for sharing.

Mitchell

Poppop

Hi @MitchellMc . Been a while.
I used an Ozito 350w Trimmer Router. Probably not exactly the best tool for the job. It managed the sign writing type jobs ok as I didn't cut the lettering too deep. But it struggled with the bigger deeper cuts for the slots on the Phone holders. I got around the problem be making several cuts getting deeper each time.
Dave. @Poppop

Jewelleryrescue

Hay @Poppop

Nice work on the lost art of making gifts for xmas

We give people friends and famly xmas decorations Balls and stuff the qood ones and paint or sign merry xmas and our name and the year.

And this year I looked at our same plastic xmas tree and saw our earliest painted bauble and it brought back memories.

One year I made a weather forcaster I large gum nut hanging from a string on a base

If dry = sunny

if wet = raining

if moving = windy

If missing = Cyclone lol

I liked it at the time probably ended up as firewood which is ok too.

By the way nice craftmanship may you keep enjoying your work and giving, As you can tell it brought a couple memories back for me too thanks,

Poppop

Hi @Jewelleryrescue thanks for the comment. My job has been keeping me busy so I haven't spent much time in the workshop lately. It felt good to get back on the tools again and may have inspired me to make time for some woodworking again.

robchin

A DIYer after my own heart @Poppop Going to make me one of those spinning things for sure