Pumpkin from Staves with Tea Light

[brok09]

Here is a pumpkin made from staves; it holds a tea light and you can also serve Hersey’s Nuggets, one-at-a-time by inverting the filled pumpkin and shaking. There is no control over which flavor comes out.
The 30 staves were cut from one 12 X 20 inch board and the mount and handle were cut from a second board. It was designed for 0.125 inch thick material (no mask) with 0.006 inch kerf using Inkscape. Slot fits are not so tight; a larger kerf or thicker material might work better.

[deirdrebeth]

Neat! The pain of seeing the flavor you want is in there, but not getting it to come out

[brok09]

In the SVG for the staves notice two small pieces at the top. These are to check the fit of the slots for the staves in the mount. Cut these without cutting the staves to decide about proceeding.
You may have to adjust the position of the SVG for the staves carefully. It barely fits on my machine.

[LauraZM]

This is great! I’m a sucker for anything pumpkin. Thank you!

[dklgood]

Thank you.

[beerfaced]

[brok09]

Lid assembly: attach the handle to the large circle. Glue the two smaller circles together, then glue the pair to the bottom of the large circle. Done.

[Thumper369]

This is great thanks for sharing

[jeanneleigh]

Love it - thanks so much for sharing! : )

[arh2]

What a wonderful share - thank you!

[rvogt]

Thanks for sharing! This is darling!

[adam.eder]

Thank you for the design! I have been kicking around making something like this!

[ellencadwell]

Thank you so much for this share! I can’t wait to make it!

[eflyguy]

I appreciate the inspiration - I designed then printed this earlier, it is specially designed to use a 70mm “hockey puck” LED base from below, and the whole thing just fits on a single sheet of Purebond 5/32” maple, which are over-size at 12" tall, but precisely 19" wide. It has 24 “staves.” The slots on the mating pieces are a perfect fit for the sheet I used (3.344mm to get a snug fit, I cut a small test piece for every sheet)…

Kind of sad that my tube is dying. Used to cut perfectly at 200/FULL (Pro) but I’ve had to drop to 150 speed now.

Mine (well, it’s for my daughter) is painted, but after looking at the pic then back at the item, I’ve decided the “stem” needs to be painted brown-ish.

Here’s an example of the pieces but it’s not much use unless you have the same material and “puck” LED…

[dklgood]

Thank you.

[3pm111]

Excellent design!!! Thanks for sharing

[laughingmoonleather]

Great pattern! Thanks for sharing!

[kizby]

Thanks for sharing!

[momoftwingles08]

This is adorable!! I can’t wait to make it!!! Thank you so much!!!