Making simple Oak Egg Cups with Holder (Quick Build)

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We get through quite a few eggs in our house, but the egg cups we have for the kids aren't great. They look nice, but just don't hold the eggs very well. I had a couple of hours in the shop to spare so wanted to make a quick video to get some content up.

I also tried out a few bits of equipment that I've been upgrading to record better audio and video and in this video you'll probably notice the exposure and framing is a little mixed up. That's because the stock lens I was using, the aperture seized up and I didn't notice until looking at the footage. I swapped to an old 30-55mm lens, so the later shots were closer than I'd have liked.

Good news! I bought a better lens, so future videos will have brighter, cleaner footage (I hope). I also didn't record much audio for this one, so I've put some details of the build below.

The Build
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There is a stack of oak blanks in my shop that I purchased for not a lot of money last year. I keep finding uses for them as they're PSE and really easy to just pick up and use. In this case, I only had to rip one of the blanks to 60mm and then cross-cut to 50mm to make squares. The oak is about 30mm thick, so these make decent size egg cups.

For the base, I used another of the blanks and trimmed the ends and width to give a 20mm border around the egg cups. I then used a router with a straight bit and a guide (I got the idea of this from Jesse over at the Samurai Carpenter) to clean out the middle of the board. This left rounded inside corners, which took a minute to square up with a chisel. 

Throw a couple of coats of food-safe mineral oil on it all and boom ... egg cups in a couple of spare hours!

The Music
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I license all my music from Epidemic Sound and the tracks used in this video (in case you want to know ... others have asked) are:

Why don't We - BLAEKER feat. Strawberry Blonde (without Melody track)
Deserve It - BLAEKER
Trouble In Kitchen 9 - Magnus Ringblom

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