For my sister to show off her collection

Made this on request from my sister who has had these pucks for many years and wanted a way to display them. The concept and design were simple enough. A big piece of wood cut into a circle with smaller circles cut out.

The execution, however, ended up being much more complicated. First I glued together 2 circles of 1/2″ baltic birch and routed the edge to round it off. Then I measured to figure out where to place the holes. These holes had to be cut out. That’s where it got problematic. I didn’t want to just freehand scrollsaw them as I wanted a nice, perfect circle and that can be difficult to do freehand. I had acquired a 3″ forstner bit for free so I thought that would be perfect since pucks are 3″ in diameter. Said forstner bit though was entirely useless at actually cutting holes. I ended up cutting most of the hole out with the scrollsaw, drilling into the hole as much as I could with the bit to make clean edges, then using my Dremel with a tiny sanding drum to sand the inside edges to the proper diameter. I was super messy and difficult to get exact dimensions. I used a puck to constantly check to make sure it would fit without being too loose or too tight.

After that nightmare, it wasn’t so bad. I made a backing piece from 1/8″ baltic birch and drilled holes into it so that the pucks can easily be removed from the backside if so needed. I stained the whole piece with a royal blue paint/stain. I had cut a hole in the middle of the piece to add the logo which I printed on photo paper and glued onto a piece of wood in the middle to raise it slightly. As a finishing touch, I poured a bit of clear resin on top of the logo.

I’m very happy with the final result and I hope my sister enjoys seeing her pucks on display as they should be.