Christmas Gifts?

[SketchUp Guru]

SO this morning I suggested to Ian, my 4-1/2 yo son, that maybe we could go out to the shop and make a cutting board for his grandmother as a Christmas gift. He told me that grandma already has a “lemon cutter” but we should make a “cheese straightener”. (He came up with this on his own) This sounds a lot more complicated than a cutting board. I don’t even know where to start searching for a plan for a cheese straightener.

Has anyone here ever built a cheese straightener before?

I don’t know what I’m going to do when he turns six. He’s already smarter than I am.

 

[toysandboats]

Dave,
Fascinating idea and I wonder why grandma has bent or curly cheese in the first place!
However, knowing that you'll want to make a wooden gift, perhaps a mallet or a rolling pin could help with the "straightening"?

I'm sure you'll get a few more interpretations later!

David Ward

 

[Waka]

Dave

When you mention a cheese straightener do you mean the cheese cutter with the wire slice?

 

[SketchUp Guru]

I wasn't able to get that out of him. He just said, "cheese straightener". He's 4 so it could be anything.

 

[Shrubby]

Dave
I predict a great future for him designing things for the Sell-o-vision tv channels. Wonky cheese just doesn't seem good enough anymore!
Matt

 

[Steve Maskery]

I think he's definitely spotted a gap in the market there. He should go far.
S

 

[uwelin]

Dave

Build something like a Suisse Girolle. Most likely it is not the “cheese straightener” your son has in mind but at least it is kind of a “cheese straightener”. And it makes lovely thin curly slices of cheese (or chocolate).

Uwe

 

[RobertMP]

If you get a drawing for a cheese straightener send me a copy - my wife cannot cut cheese straight. It looks like it has been carved to fit around a 4 inch dia pipe when I take it out of the fridge

 

[Hitch]

Cheese that want cut square used to really annoy me, iv nearly got over it now

 

[woodbloke]

I could never cut Viennetta(sp?) straight either, somehow the two supposedly :wink: vertical cuts around my bit always sloped outwards, so that strangely :? and and I've never understood this...my bit was always bigger :lol: SWIMBO and the kids didn't catch on for years :lol: :lol: - Rob

 

[Woodmagnet]

I could never cut Viennetta(sp?) straight either, somehow the two supposedly :wink: vertical cuts around my bit always sloped outwards, so that strangely :? and and I've never understood this...my bit was always bigger :lol: SWIMBO and the kids didn't catch on for years :lol: :lol: - Rob

We must have the same bevel on our knives :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[TrimTheKing]

Cheese that want cut square used to really annoy me, iv nearly got over it now

I get like that with bread. My MIL, and wife cannot cut bread from a loaf and it makes me CRAZY!!!!!! :evil:

Mark

 

[Vormulac]

You need the new Veritas Low Angle Bread Plane. Guaranteed to take 1/2" shavings from even the most challengingly (whole)grained bread.

 

[TrimTheKing]

You need the new Veritas Low Angle Bread Plane. Guaranteed to take 1/2" shavings from even the most challengingly (whole)grained bread.

Ha, you seriously think I would let SWMBO handle any of my planes!!! :wink:

Cheers

Mark