The Woodshop Shed

Carrying Trivets for Corningware dishes

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This seemed like an easy project. I even had my mother in law's vintage 1960's wood trivet by corningware to copy. Over the years corningware switched to steel trivets and dropped the wood ones. They also changed the sizes of their dishes and started making round dishes. I should have just started from scratch. After several fails and lots of leg modifications I finished them. Never again.The tricky part was making the legs a close enough fit to the sloped walls of the dish to keep it in and not let it slip out the side. These are made to carry the hot dish from the kitchen to the table. I switched out the original design's brass pins for dowel joints and brass screws. I also made the handles larger. I have burned myself numerous times on the original carrying hot dishes to the table.Cherry and maple with garnet shellac finish.PS My wife just gave me a history lesson. The trivet I copied is from Pyrex circa 1970. Corningware made mostly steel trivets.

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