{"id":3805,"date":"2014-10-06T12:49:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2014-10-06T12:55:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:55:25","slug":"a-gift-for-steve-wisconsin-trivet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2014\/a-gift-for-steve-wisconsin-trivet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gift for Steve – Wisconsin Trivet"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you haven’t heard, Steve Case<\/a> is in town (Former CEO of AOL though more recently a startup evangelist and adviser to the president) and we were tasked with making him a parting gift to thank him for his commitment to bringing attention to entrepreneurship in Madison through his Rise of the Rest tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We partnered (as we often do<\/a>) with local entrepreneur Alisa Toninato, founder of FeLion Studios<\/a> to make a great gift. She provided one of her celebrated Wisconsin state shaped skillets<\/a>, and we hand-made a fancy trivet with each company’s logo engraved on it who is pitching today for a $100,000 investment from Steve.<\/p>\n

We first started with a wood blank, composed of padauk (vivid red), maple (light), and walnut (dark) wood, fixtured it in the router, and having scanned (on a regular flatbed scanner) and vector traced the bottom of the pan we can cut out a shallow pocket:
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Next up we pulled the vector image of Wisconsin and routed out the perimeter, leaving some tabs so it wouldn’t rattle around as it completed the cut:
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Then we cut the tabs free on the bandsaw, and used a spindle sander and hand sanding to clean up the external tooling marks, the inside pocket was sanded with a mouse detail sander (not shown here):
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And after a quick test fit (which was already done on the router to before it was cut free) and we’re off to some finishing steps:
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We used a walnut oil finish, which really makes the colors in the wood come out, gives it a food safe coating, and if properly cared for (no using the dishwasher! \ud83d\ude1b ) will last a very long time:
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After finishing, the laser bed is covered to protect the wood from sucking up debris from prior cuts, and the piece is engraved:
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Partway through:
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Finished:
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After engraving, there’s a lot of pitch\/resin\/smoke deposited on the surface that can be wiped away to give very crisp edges (not done yet in this image):
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We went for a quick scavenger hunt to find some cat toys<\/del> ribbon we could use to tie things together, Alisa was nice enough to run over a boxed up skillet late Sunday evening:
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Then we realized Youtube is great for learning how to tie a ribbon:
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But fortunately we had a grizzled veteran ribbon-tier at hand who just finished up her wedding projects<\/a> here to save the day: (Thanks Kate!)
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In case you haven’t heard, Steve Case is in town (Former CEO of AOL though more recently a startup evangelist and adviser to the president) and we were tasked with making him a parting gift to thank him for his…<\/span><\/p>\n

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