Every year, me and some friends join a local youthwork group (similar to scouts) on their annual 10-day summer camp to cook for about a hundred children. This year, we’ll be joining them for the fourth year already, and every time we get a little bit better organized. For this year I decided to make some trivets to put our large cooking pots and pans on during meals.

They have a ‘logo’ they like to use all the time, although strangely there was no digital file available. Recreating it from a photograph wasn’t all that hard though since the logo consists of mostly well-known fonts (see below). I used a board of low-quality 18mm plywood for this first test, which you can see being cut here:

This project involved a 60 degree V-engrave with  Z-flats-clearance and obviously a profiling operation for the handles and profile. I rounded all edges on my router table.

As you can see in the video, it worked out quite well, but eventually I went on to make the rest of the trivets using 12mm poplar plywood which had better ply quality, and with a more shallow engraving depth.

I made 2 rectangular and 2 round ones.