Here are the potato mashers I made this past weekend. they are turned from hard maple and styled after an antique one I found at a rummage sale.

Those are really cool John, love em, and it looks like a plain ol fun project too. How tall are they, and what diameter? Maple?

The black lines, is that wire burn?

Nice pieces John.  You can also juggle with them.

Very Cool! May have to "borrow" this idea for next Christmas!!!

John - very kewl - sure beats the baseball bat my wife uses sometimes

they are about 11" x 2.75" hard maple and yes they have some wire burning on them. not a problem Lew because I was going to ask you if I could borrow your garlic press idea :}

they are about 11" x 2.75" hard maple and yes they have some wire burning on them. not a problem Lew because I was going to ask you if I could borrow your garlic press idea :}

Great! This looks like something I can actually do!

they are about 11" x 2.75" hard maple and yes they have some wire burning on them. not a problem Lew because I was going to ask you if I could borrow your garlic press idea :}

Please feel free to use it- I "borrowed" it from another site

These are very cool. I made one of these recently out of spalted maple. I'm not using it for food for that reason but it looks like it would make a great fish thumper too, LOL. (used to thump fish in the head that actually have teeth). I'll have to upload an image of it here soon but it's pretty basic.