Phil
Old Oak
Canasta card holder
A small simple project for scrap wood.
A fun project.
Canasta is played every Friday morning, up at the Clubhouse, from 09:00 to about 12:00, wife plays.
Someone suggested a playing card holder for some of the elderly who cannot hold the cards in their hands comfortably anymore.
Obviously the request ended up on my desk.
Big deep dig into all the scrap bins.
It needed to be about 280mm long.
Width greater than 45/50mm
Thickness about 40mm to allow for the angle cut and the grooves for the cards.
This is the sixth one, the other were pine glued together to get the thickness.
It was some pine with MDF glued on for a project years ago. It was too wide for the table saw to cut the angle, so I trimmed off 15mm.
The fence fitted, wood width gap set and the saw was then set at 11degrees.
Some push sticks and off came the angle cut off. The saw marks will be taken off on the planer.
The blade is set to 90 degrees, fence is then set 20mm from edge.
The first groove cut is 30mm, block turned and the second one 20mm.
This the ‘ok’ depth for the cards.
It is extremely important to note that the 20mm groove is cut on the thin end of the block. And, yes, I did fuff it up on one which then went to the throw away box.
A couple of swipes over the planer to get rid of the saw marks.
Before finishing there was some light sanding on all the sharp edges.
Finish was 3 coats of Woodoc 10 with light sanding.
The MDF bit received 5 soaking coats.
A small simple project for scrap wood.
A fun project.
Canasta is played every Friday morning, up at the Clubhouse, from 09:00 to about 12:00, wife plays.
Someone suggested a playing card holder for some of the elderly who cannot hold the cards in their hands comfortably anymore.
Obviously the request ended up on my desk.
Big deep dig into all the scrap bins.
It needed to be about 280mm long.
Width greater than 45/50mm
Thickness about 40mm to allow for the angle cut and the grooves for the cards.
This is the sixth one, the other were pine glued together to get the thickness.
It was some pine with MDF glued on for a project years ago. It was too wide for the table saw to cut the angle, so I trimmed off 15mm.
The fence fitted, wood width gap set and the saw was then set at 11degrees.
Some push sticks and off came the angle cut off. The saw marks will be taken off on the planer.
The blade is set to 90 degrees, fence is then set 20mm from edge.
The first groove cut is 30mm, block turned and the second one 20mm.
This the ‘ok’ depth for the cards.
It is extremely important to note that the 20mm groove is cut on the thin end of the block. And, yes, I did fuff it up on one which then went to the throw away box.
A couple of swipes over the planer to get rid of the saw marks.
Before finishing there was some light sanding on all the sharp edges.
Finish was 3 coats of Woodoc 10 with light sanding.
The MDF bit received 5 soaking coats.
