I gave myself a concussion a few months ago and am still taking prescription painkillers as I need them; thankfully, no longer a daily thing. Last week, I was supposed to meet friends for dinner after an activity and ended up being late because I had to run home for a pill because my head was hurting so much. Well, I decided to do something about it and turned myself a small pill holder to keep in my pocket. It's made out of bone-dry apple wood.
This is how it was before I started:
After the scrap wood has been removed:
And after it has a coat of wipe-on poly applied; I love how it darkens down and almost looks like cedar:
Having moderate success with this, I decided to make something similar for my mother to carry in her purse for her medications. Since she takes pills instead of eating breakfast, it had to be larger. I ended up using the other end of the branch of apple wood I used for mine and ended up with this; no finish yet (dunno if I'm even going to bother finishing it; might just toss it):
And because I didn't verify that the headstock was rotated back to be in perfect alignment with the tailstock, the cover and body are 'off'. Really confused me until I figured out what was going on...
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