Continuation of the story of making money on handmade products.

In early December I told how do I manage to earn extra money before the New Year on handicrafts, and promised a sequel. I was asked to come up with a New Year's gift so that it could be given to significant clients of the company, and so that this gift would for a long time remind of the company that gave it.

What a gift

Most of December I made these wooden things.

Quite a lot of such "whales" had to be done. Initially, three versions of such a stand were made, but this one was chosen.

The thing turned out to be comfortable, and for myself I also made such a stand.

Let me remind you that this was a New Year's gift for significant clients of the company, so it was important to pack beautifully.

For these gifts, I also ordered a New Year's card in the form of a smartphone. (Scroll through the gallery)

All this: a stand, a postcard and a "snowdrift" made of paper strips, was packed in a gift bag and tied with a bright bow.

How was it made

Let me remind you that this is a channel about home carpentry. In the manufacture of this stand, home-made machines were mainly used. I wrote about the three most "popular" machines made of wood and plywood here.

The figure of a whale was cut out on a jigsaw.

I talked about how the groove in the stand was made in the publication about a homemade file.

I prepared the boards for the stand on a planer-thicknessing machine, which I purchased last fall. Machine overview look here.

The figurine of the whale was attached to a stand with a dowel and glue. So that on all products the figure was placed in one place, I drilled holes for the dowel according to the marking using a homemade additive router. How it works is in this article.

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Alexander.

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