Made from a single plank of Hormigo Rojo (aka Macacauba, macawood) with 1/2″ x 1″ strips arranged long-grain for the pressing surfaces. Rabbeted a piece to the top/back with the tablesaw and glued in place.
Stainless steel hinges provide pivot point, handle secured and hinged with a brass rod drifted through the press handle support rungs, plugs of scrap macawood glued in for seamlessness. Handle support rungs arranged in a simple, hybrid, end-interlock joint, tapped and screwed into two faces with 2-1/2″ pocket hole screws into bottom pressing face and face joinery block, holes plugged with scrap macawood.
Finished with an MCT oil soak, and buffed with our board balm.
South Bend, WA; March 2021