Sunday Sifter

October 2, 2023

Sunday Sifter Build

(AKA- spent way too many hours reading archives, got jazzed up with a river at flood stage, and had to do something fossil related to move forward with my life)

Building a nicer sifter has been on my list for a long while. I saved a nice cedar board from a window sill repair, and have been “gonna make a sifter with it” since. My current sifter is fine so I decided to make something a little nicer that I can keep a while. A sifter that can live in the boat, is still lightweight but taller than my current version, and buoyant.

Cedar should be perfect. It’s lighter than most, strong, basically rot proof and naturally buoyant. Since my material was limited I decided to use the CNC to cut it out rather than the bandsaw. Waste not want not.

The construction fence is something I started using last year. Held up all season incredibly and my favorite part is it’s 3/8”. In my area that appears to be the sweet spot for speed and collection. It stretches like a trampoline and trims up with a razor blade.

Anyone else got a cheese ball tub of chunkasaurous and dugong bits

some sanding and shaping along with a little mantra for when I need reminding of why I’m out there.

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known”

it’s In really deep so it’s hard to read but over time the letters will darken up while the surface keeps getting rubbed on and it will become really nice.

Also cut some 1/8” veneer cover strips for the bottom. It’s a Sunday sifter. Time to wear the nice shirt.

It’s screwed together. Predrill cedar or it will crack. To jazz it up I sunk 5/16” counters in and used dowels to hide my screw heads. You can use shorter screws this way too.