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    3 Kitchen Gifts

    Nov 02, 2018 7 minutes
    By Woodworker’s Journal Staff

    Pizza Peel

    You may have seen your favorite pizza restaurant using a pizza peel (essentially a giant spatula) to lift your pizza pie in and out of the oven. With this project, you’ll be able to replicate that restaurant experience in your own kitchen.

    The first step is to glue up a panel to create your peel. We used 1/2"-thick walnut and curly maple stock, but you can utilize scraps of your own choosing — maybe some small, interesting pieces or leftovers from other projects that are lying around your shop. Just remember not to make your blank too thick to begin with: the peel needs to be skinny enough to fit under your pizza.

    Rip strips from your stock and arrange them in an attractive pattern, then glue them up and wait for the glue to cure. Our blank measured 1/2" x 14" x 24". When you’re ready to proceed, scrape off the dried glue and run the panel through a sander or a planer to flatten it. If you use a drum sander like we did, lower the drum no more

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