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This year I decided to make coin banks for the family and some friends. I had saved the tops from some half gallon juice bottles to use for threads so the tops could be removed when the change was needed from the banks. Was quite the undertaking. I wanted each family member to have one including the two new babies added this year. So all in all I needed to make 50 of these. Some are still in the process but 39 of them were given to family at our annual party on Saturday. Everyone liked them. I turned a straight section on the lower portion the bottle top threads and used epoxy designed for plastic to set them in place. The tops were turned to fit a 1.5" drilled hole and the centers removed. Cut the slot in the tops with a slot cutter on the router table after the blanks were recessed for the tops and still square. Used a wood hand screw clamp to hold them and save my fingers from harm. I Drilled the bodies with a 1.25", sized the opening to fit the threads used my Easy Wood full size finisher to hollow the bodies under the threads. Their carbide cutter is simply amazing. I have so far hollowed 50 bodies and have yet to loosen the screw and turn the cutter to a new edge and it is still cutting great.
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Other than working on a large theater set (I'll get photos of it before this weekend's performance), here's a couple of things I've been working on. First is the little free library, which I plan to start painting tomorrow, while waiting for some roofing screws. Second are some 4x8x7 storage shelves for the furniture bank.
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Here is a family of Easter Bunny banks that I made for a customer for her daughter. My customer is teaching her daughter to save so there are banks for Pennies, Nickles, Dimes, Quarters, Dollar Bills and Foreign Coins. The purple bunny is bigger than the rest it is 10 inches tall x 14 inches long x 5 inches wide. All the other are 8 inches high x 10 inches long x 3 3/4 inches wide. DW
