I got four of the five Pizza Peels finished this weekend. I was trying to figure out a good way to cut the bevel on both sides of the peels. I put my large raised panel bit in the router and did the bevel on the sides, the straight part. I tried to do one of them around the end and it didn't work, it would grab the end grain so I had to do a little sanding and fix it.

So I took a rasp and removed most of the material on the rounded end and then took my Stanley No.18 block plane and fine tune them. Then a little sanding and the bevel was perfect. I though it was going to take a long time doing them this way, but it was really a lot faster than I imagined and the quite work with the plane was a nice change to the router noise.

But just when you think you have everything working your way, I was on the last one running the bevel on the straight side when the raise panel bit grabbed and tore out the side.

So as soon as I can, I will cut this part off and put another piece of maple on and try again.

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pizza peels only need to be rounded on one side. the bottom stays flat.

 By the way, you might want a longer handle on them for 2 handed leverage especially for large pies.

Stanley intarsia sign is on hold a couple of days till I can get to Loews for more blades for the scroll saw.

They're beauties, John! Sorry about the mishap.

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Yea, I might add a little to the length on the next handles. I made this one in a store I got a pattern of. On the ones they had but sides were beveled. I guess this way you can use either side.

I did read on a site for Pizza Peels that beveling both sides makes it easier to slide the pizza on and off.

dragon1 said:

pizza peels only need to be rounded on one side. the bottom stays flat.

 By the way, you might want a longer handle on them for 2 handed leverage especially for large pies.

Stanley intarsia sign is on hold a couple of days till I can get to Loews for more blades for the scroll saw.

Thanks Lew. I guess those things just happen. Seems to happening a lot lately.

Lewis Kauffman said:

They're beauties, John! Sorry about the mishap.

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I can guess you'll be paying attention to the lay of the grain for this piece.

Nice peels

You are correct Cliff. I was just running them and didn't even look.

Cliff said:

I can guess you'll be paying attention to the lay of the grain for this piece.

Nice peels

Sorry about the mishap John but at least it's fixable. They look great too

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They came out beautiful, like the shape and the wood colors. Sorry for the accident, I know you can easily fix it. 

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Thanks Claude, I am working on the piece to fix it now.

Claude Bradford said:

They came out beautiful, like the shape and the wood colors. Sorry for the accident, I know you can easily fix it. 

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