{"id":337,"date":"2026-05-20T00:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/?p=337"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:58:52","slug":"gifts-and-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/boards\/gifts-and-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifts and Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you are an avid follower of this blog, which no doubt you are, then you’ll have noticed that most of my work ends up as gifts. It’s the ideal situation for me. I get to create something with my own hands, usually with the person in mind, and that person then has something to remember me by. It also alleviates the pressure of getting it perfect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been asked if I plan on starting an Etsy store or selling any of my work. The answer is no. Part of it is that I’m not good enough. Most of my work has some small flaw – what I like to call a sign of character – that doesn’t diminish its destiny as a gift but would diminish it as a commercial good. I also prefer to keep woodworking as a hobby so I can continue to try different things and channel my creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that said, cutting boards and photo frames aren’t exactly innovative for my experience but I really enjoy making them. As noted in my prior post, frames are more complicated than expected so there is always a sense of accomplishment when I get it right. For the cutting boards, I was taken aback by how much I liked the peruvian walnut and sapele contrast – to the point where I almost kept it for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The small trays are a nice way to use leftover exotic wood while demonstrating router technique. The one with the canarywood came out beautifully but I made a few mistakes on the walnut and bocote one. Guess I’ll just keep that one for myself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you are an avid follower of this blog, which no doubt you are, then you’ll have noticed that most of my work ends up as gifts. It’s the ideal situation for me. I get to create something with my own hands, usually with the person in mind, and that person then has something to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22,26,23],"tags":[19,33,24,15,21,20,13],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boards","category-frames","category-gifts","category-trays","tag-bocote","tag-canarywood","tag-cherry","tag-padauk","tag-peruvian-walnut","tag-sapele","tag-walnut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}