Author Topic: Pizza Peels (Read 940 times)

metalspinner · « **on:** June 06, 2021, 05:34:28 PM »

In between all the work on the shop, I squeezed in these pizza peels. These were made for a friend who will gift them. They have a traditional Friday night Pizza night in their family. One of their children are getting married and will receive this as a gift.

Andries · « **Reply #1 on:** June 06, 2021, 05:51:20 PM »

Nice work Mr Spinner!
I bet they'll be grinning from ear to ear when they see those two works of art.
I'm admiring the swoopy white lines - are they inlays or part of the glue up laminates?

Dan_Shade · « **Reply #2 on:** June 06, 2021, 06:56:02 PM »

Any concerns of the glue letting loose due to heat?

metalspinner · « **Reply #3 on:** June 06, 2021, 07:28:33 PM »

No more so than any other pizza peel glue up.
I did ask how they cook their pizzas. If they had mentioned a wood fired pizza oven, I wouldn’t have been so extravagant. But, they are just using this in their kitchen oven to take the pizza in and out.

We have a local beer place that has a mobile pizza guy out on Friday nights. He uses a big wood fired brick oven that gets up to 900degrees. His peel is a maple glue up. And he keeps it there for 20 seconds at a time spinning and moving the pizzas around.

With that being said, no warranty is expressed or guaranteed. 😂

Andries, those strips are part of the lamination.

firefighter ontheside · « **Reply #4 on:** June 06, 2021, 07:55:09 PM »

Very nice.

WDH · « **Reply #5 on:** June 07, 2021, 07:23:58 AM »

I like the curvaceous handle.

aigheadish · « **Reply #6 on:** June 07, 2021, 12:58:39 PM »

Wow, those're very pretty!

Jeff · « **Reply #7 on:** June 10, 2021, 06:32:08 AM »

A privilege to be spanked with those are!

samandothers · « **Reply #8 on:** June 10, 2021, 08:41:42 AM »

Wow, great job! Very creative designs. What a wonderful gift!

Jeff you need a pretty big butt to use those as paddles!

kantuckid · « **Reply #9 on:** June 13, 2021, 10:08:53 AM »

FWIW, at 200 degrees is when typical yellow wood glue (such as Titebond I, II or III) gets soft and then releases. At that temp it sort of reminds you of a nearly hard contact cement. I've used heat guns to make this happen in doing a repair. I learned this from a call to the tech folks at Titebond. I will ad that it's very easy to burn the wood surface to achieve that temperature internally down within a wood joint.

That said, I have no idea about heat for a pizza peel? Probably not long enough to matter?

ljohnsaw · « **Reply #10 on:** June 13, 2021, 10:24:44 AM »

That is just stunning. Obviously book matched, but how do you get those not-straight joints? I'm guessing a band saw is involved and you layer the wood to cut both pieces at the same time.

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