A little woodworking distraction

I am pretty well done with the house exterior repairs, now entering the prime and paint phase. And before I start that, I'm going over the whole house looking for spots that may need some attention. Found a spot where the paint is peeling, will tackle that before I get my primer out. Ditto for caulking I may have to replace/fix.

It hasn't rain all week, but there is a lot of dew this morning, I will have to wait for the sun to burn it through.

A few days ago, my wife posted a picture of a wooden gizmo for book readers, with a hint, on my Facebook page. Yes, people still read paper book :-)
It has generated a lot of interest among our friends, so I thought that would make a nice little distractions from house repairs while I wait.

The pic she shown me. Clever gizmo, I'll give that a try.

Judging from the picture, it is slightly less than my comb...

Not easy to take a pic with my left hand while holding 

this hairy people apparatus :-)

Next I need to figured out the size of the hole for my big fat thumb.

  

My 3/4 in dog hole are too small.

This 1 in cup looks like it will do.

At the drill press with the 1 in Forstner bit

Yes, big fat thumb fit easily.

Drawing lines, approx. center on the hole.

Next it's off to the bandsaw. It currently has a 1/2 in blade, 

these curves are too tight, so I made relief cuts first.

Quick check with my morning coffee on my current book, Tom Clancy.

That work pretty good. The hole is probably a bit too big, 

will try 7/8 in next.

That was a quick rough prototype, final design would be more refined :-)

But it does prove the concept is a good one.

I'll try with various size books, hard cover and paperback. It doesn't seem to do much on my IPad Kindle apps ... Go figure! :-)

Maybe, I'll need to make a few sizes, such as:

The big boy, the Tom Clancy edition,

The medium, the Clive Cussler edition, and

The smaller girlie version :-)

So to our friends that have expressed interest, hang in there, I'll crank them up soon in whatever wood species I have around...

Bob, catching up with his latest book while the dew is burning off.