Most of the time my turning is for tool handles and ends up in the Neanderthal Haven. I'm more of a utilitarian turner and not a turner of beautiful pieces of art.
Candy and I seldom get up at the same time. She has her own Coffee maker and this morning, on the rare occasion of me being in the kitchen when she was making coffee, she expressed her dislike of how the coffee filter always seems to crumple & crinkle when she puts it in the filter holder. Too much crumpling & crinkling and grounds end up in the coffee. This seemed like a simple solution if I could find a hunk of wood large enough. The opening was measured at 3-1/4". Actually I used a metal 1 cup measuring cup to press the filter in place and that was how big it was.
So off to the shop and after a while at the lathe this was made from a piece of alder:
Filter Press.jpg
Set the filter on top of the holder, press down with the filter press, it did the job:
Pressing Fileter .jpg
Candy is happy, she'll let me be for another day.
jtk