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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEM curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in Round Wood Woodworking.

As your roundwood construction skills are improving, it's time to make things that are elegant.  Maybe you've gotten sick of eating your dinner off the ground.  Let's make some wooden plates!

 
 

And here's a gentleman making one.  Just pretend he split his blank from a log:


Minimum requirements:
  - Hand tools only
  - Make two dinner plates
  - At least 10" across
  - Grain is parallel to the table they sit on (not a disk cut from a log)
  - Center of plates are at least 1/4" lower than rim
  - Generally recognizable as a plate to random strangers
  - Smooth
  - Finished with an organic food grade oil

Provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 min):
  - Log chunk you're starting with
  - Blanks roughed out
  - Midway through making the plates with your hand tools
  - Applying oil (show oil is organic)
  - Finished plates showing required measurements
 
Right! We're on it! Let's get to work tiny ad!
Paul Wheaton's Permaculture Products and Paraphenalia
https://permies.com/w/stuff
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