Make a Koozie he said. It’ll be cool he said. But would it be easy?
After seeing the straight walled lidded box I made, my son suggested making a Walnut Drink Koozie. It would be a hit with his forester and logger friends. How hard could it be?
Well for a beginner like me, kind of hard. I had to procure different bits to drill it out, and a different tool to hollow something that deep, many inches over the tool rest and where you can’t see what you’re doing. Then the wood was wet, so I had to take it slow over several days. I finally mastered getting a proper mount with my SuperNOVA2 chuck on a spigot and this was the first time I used wire to burn in some accent lines. But for a first try, it turned out kind of nice. It has a nice velvety feel outside with a bee’s wax and boiled linseed oil finish and I ended up deciding to line it with a gloss black polyurethane to keep any condensate out of contact with the wood.
