How to make a Cheese Slicer

if you've ever cut a block of cheese with a knife you know how sticky it gets to the knife as you can see here this cheese slicer cuts right through some cheese here and you can cut even slices with ease now I'm going to show you how you can make one of these yourself follow along now to give you a quick rundown of what I did first I grab some lumber from the scrap bin that I thought would make a nice cheese slicer I made a boar that was nine and a half inches by five and three-quarter inch and then I made a drilling jig to where I can actually drill the side and then I made a groove for the wire and that has to be at an angle so that was really interesting then I round it over the edges sanded and put a finish on it and then I installed the arm in the wire now let me show you how I put this all together and how you can make one yourself as well I found some lumber from scrap bins with walnuts red heart a little bit of curly maple even found some curly cherien's regular cherry and I figuring out the arrangement of how I wanted to arrange the actual boards then I cut all the boards to about the same length this way they're manageable and I don't have to deal with a bunch of different lengths of lumber then at the jointer I join it one side to get all the board's nice and flat on one side because these boards were all different thicknesses I actually needed to get them thickness from the same thickness now to get them to the same thickness I use my drum sander because they were they all had some different grain patterns in each of these I didn't want to send them through my planer because that could have caused a lot of tear up especially on the curly maple the curly maple would have definitely torn out so I ended up sending them through my drum sander to save that that grain and a quick high-speed glue up here now this is where I spend most of my time here on this video making a jig so I can actually drill a vertical hole now this hole is where the arm will actually go into the board for the slicer and this needs to be drilled four inches deep so you can try to drill that just with a hand drill but trying to get that to actually drill in straight is quite a challenge so I'm actually making quite a few of these so I decided to actually make a jig so I can actually replicate these pretty pretty easily so making this jig I was basically making just a right angle piece here that will actually allow me to have a big vertical fence that I can set up at the drill press so it's actually a really simple jig to actually set up here and I'm also going to provide some PDF plans for you guys to actually have for this if you want to actually create this jig yourself for your own drill press now your drill press table may be different than mine but has the same principle mine will actually mount onto my drill press with some t-slot lockdowns but you can actually just clamp this thing down to your drill press table in any ways that you want to this is the point where it's kind of getting more critical I needed to make sure that this portion here was nice and square so I knit I ended up pulling out my square and clamping this together to make sure that both edges were square in both of these corners just to make sure that once I screw these two pieces together that when I went to put my boards in here they'll be set up and and ending in the exact same position every single time my drill press table has a couple T slots that I can actually kind of take advantage of so what I'm doing here is actually drilling a couple holes that I can use to put a couple T slot lockdowns in and this way I can actually just lock this jig into place using those and not have to worry about getting a couple clamps now if your drill press table does not have that you can merely just clamp this thing down into place and use that but when I'm actually making a bunch of these boards at one time I like to just have this thing lock down and and go with that you now the board is done with the glue up I can actually flatten one side and I'm just barely barely cleaning off the glue and getting this board flat again and I had quite a bit of excess cherry on there and I could have trimmed that board down originally but I wasn't too worried about it so now I'm getting the board completely down to size and originally I'd mentioned the board size could be nine and a half inches by five and three-quarter inches so that's what I'm measuring out and getting it squared down to right now now what I made is actually a little riser block out of a piece of half-inch plywood so this is half-inch thick and I made it to where it is actually 5/8 of an inch wide and six and a half inches long now that six and a half inches tells me how far away to set up my stop block and that'll be how far away the actual cut line will be for the actual kerf now I'm using a thin curved blade to actually put a thin curve for this actual cut and this riser block will actually cause this cut to be cut at an angle and then I raise the blade towards actually just a little bit above that half inch so it'll actually clear the hole on the one side because it needs to make sure that I need to make sure that actually clears the hole so the actual arm will actually go all the way through that hole then a quick pass with the table saw makes a nice clean cut now with that done I rounded off all the edges now I start off rounding over the corners and then I'll ran over all the edges this way I get a nice round over around the entire board and sanding wow that's a lot this handy always our favorite part of this but I always like to sand and get this sanded down to 400 grit just get a nice smooth finish and then I add my brand to it if you don't have one of these brands it's a good way to mark your work I I really like having one of these burning brands just to put on there and definitely mark your work in some way it gives a good way to to have your work on there if anything you can even just use a sharpie to mark your work and put a finish over that that that should last a good while but if you don't have just a wood burner sign your work in some way for finish I'm actually using general finishes salad bowl finish what I like about this for the cheese boards is it's first off of food taste finish and also it ends up with a an actual hardening finish so it's kind of like a varnish and it leaves a very very nice finish it's still like an oil-based finish so very very nice finish to use on this type of board install on the hardware is actually really simple you just slide the arm through the hole that you drilled and that arm will actually catch the wire on the way through so you actually just slip that through there catch the wire and the other end of the wire is actually on the handle itself and the handle will get caught by the other end of the arm now the arm is flexed a little bit it doesn't come it's not a perfect square see it's kind of got a flex to it so once you get that put together and you actually put the handle into that that other side you'll actually flex the handle in and it puts the tension on the wire itself then there will be a little set screw that you put through there and the arm has a small hole as well that the set screw will match up with so you just put that set screw through there actually screw that in and it'll match into that little hole and you're all set and as you can see behind the scenes I was actually making six of these all at once I was making one of these the one that is on the video for my wife and I was making a few others to sell I hope you all enjoyed watching the video of me making this and you can see how how simple these are actually to make start to finish and you can even actually use just solid wood now this one here is made out of ash and they look beautiful regardless and completely useful these things will slice right through cheese and if you've ever used one of those hand cheese slicers with the wires you know how well those things watch to slice the cheese and in comparison to like a cheese knife those I mean you can cut through cheese but the cheese still sticks to the knife so that's what's so great about these they're great to make very easy to make and I do sell the actual cheese slicer kits I'm an authorized reach reseller for the kits and I've got them in chrome and in black on my website so if you're interested in actually making these go to my website I actually sell the kits and I can get them out to you I also have made a pdf plan for the jig that I made in the video for my drill press to be able to drill that vertical hole that you need for this arm now I do recommend getting a longer drill bit than what comes in a standard set now the bit that I used in the video was actually a brad point bit that came in a set from Harbor Freight that one was barely long enough and I barely had it in the drill chuck I probably had it in the chuck maybe about a half an inch maybe not even that much maybe was like 3/8 of an inch in the chuck so it was barely long enough to actually drill this deep enough but it worked so you can do it but I would actually recommend getting about a six inch long drill bit and I've got a link in the description for a drill bit that I would actually recommend the one that I'm actually currently using to do these on a little bit larger scale so like I said I have these available as kits and of course I do sell them on my website as well and make various different ones so if you're interested definitely check it out hope you all enjoyed this video definitely check out some of my other videos I've got out there as well so like I said before I appreciate you watching and have a great week god bless

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Keywords: Cheese Slicer, cheese cutter, Cutting Board, diy, Woodworking, WoodworkingManiak, Woodwork, Do It Yourself, Projects, Wood Projects, Wood Working, how to, wood, Cheese, kitchen, Free Plans, cheese (food), slicer, cheese knife, wire knife, cutter

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Length: 13min 6sec (786 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 03 2016