How to Make a Ravioli Rolling Pin // Woodworking

Hey, I'm Bob and I like to make stuff.

Today, we're going to make a really
weird rolling pin.

A while back, I was looking around
on Pinterest,

and I ran across a picture of a rolling
pin made for making ravioli.

And it dawned on me at that moment that I
had no idea

how ravioli was made before that.

It was kind of a cool looking object

and I wasn't really sure how they were
put together,

so I decided to give it a shot.

I don't really have any need to make
ravioli, but I do like the idea

of being able to deconstruct something

and figure out how to make your own.

In fact, the more I think about it

I would actually rather have one of these

for making little dessert ravioli,

rather than real ravioli.

Alright, let's give it a shot and see
how it goes.

I had a couple pieces of teak and
a nice slab of cherry

that I wanted to use.

I ran it through the planer a
a couple of times

just to clean off both faces

so that they would glue together nicely.

I cut off one edge of this using the fence

and then laid that cut edge against

the fence to cut two equal strips.

Once I had both of these cut,

I used one of them as a spacer

to set up a stop block on my miter saw,

then turn the piece and cut a
bunch of squares.

I added quite a bit of glue to one side

of each of these pieces

and used a brush to spread it around,

trying to make sure that it covered as
much as possible.

I stacked all these up and put it
in the clamps.

While those were drying in the clamps,

I ran both of my strips over the table saw

to make sure that they were the
same thickness.

After a couple of hours I was pretty sure

that all the glue had dried,

so I took it out of the clamps

and then used a straight edge

going from corner to corner

on each end to find a center point.

Really quickly, I want to point out
a mistake

that I made so that you can avoid it.

After I glued up that block, I forgot

to scrape off the outsides and square
it up as a block.

In a second, I'm going to run it over
the table saw,

and when I did that, it actually wasn't

laying flat against the table.

At the time, it didn't seem like that big
of a deal,

but it actually changed the depth

of the cuts for each one of the slots
that I was making.

So even though it wasn't that

big of a deal at the moment,

it did have some effects down the line.

Just learn from my mistake,

square up your block before you

take it to the table saw.

I swapped out my table saw blade

for a dado stack that was the same width

as the strips that I had cut just a little
while ago.

I made sure that it was also set to
the same height.

I set the fence so this piece was centered

over the blade and then I ran it
through four times,

making a slot on each side of this piece.

I chucked it up in the lathe

and started tearing it down to
a cylinder.

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I wanted to keep the cylinder

as large as I could, but also get rid

of any flat spots.

I kept checking it and taking a
little bit more off,

and eventually I got it down to
a pretty good cylinder.

I used some sandpaper

at a much slower speed

to smooth out the surface.

The edges of the slots were

a little rough too, so I just ran

over them with sandpaper

and they smoothed right up.

Back on the miter saw,

I set up a stop block

so I could slice the cylinder

down into pieces.

I set it at the same thickness

of my original material,

so basically I was cutting through

all of the glue lines when

I had made up this block.

Being a circle, this was actually pretty
hard to do

I was worried about it rolling,

so I used a clamp to hold it

against the back fence.

Then eventually it got to small to
safely hold,

so I moved to the cross-cut sled

to finish it up.

I laid out the strips and then

set all the pieces in place,

figuring out how thick they were

and how much gap I needed in
between them.

I marked this out on a piece of wood

so I knew how long to cut my strips.

I cut four strips down.

Before I assembled it,

I decided to take advantage of my laser

and put my logo on the end
of one of these.

Then I just added some glue to the strips

and started knocking everything together.

You can see here that things

don't line up perfectly because

of the issue I talked about earlier.

It was close enough that I could

kind of brute force it into shape,

but in the future, I would definitely

square up that block

before I did anything else.

I made sure to add glue

on all three of the surfaces

where these strips were pushed in,

and try to make sure that everything

was forced all the way

down to the bottom of the slot.

Then I got out my trusty clamps,

and tried to make sure that

every connection had some pressure on it

so that it would dry nice and tight.

I also wiped off as much glue from
the inside

as I could before it dried.

That made it a lot easier.

Eventually, after this was dry and

out of the clamps,

I took it to the sander to try

to smooth out those strips.

They were a little bit proud

in some places, again,

because of the issue I mentioned earlier.

I finished up just by going over the
whole thing

with a fine sanding pad.

For finishing, I used a combination of

bees wax and mineral oil,

but you could use anything
that's food-safe,

anything that you would use on a
cutting board

would work great here.

Then it was time to try it out.

Of course you can make real ravioli,

but I actually just wanted dessert.

I rolled it over a pie crust

and this left some small indentations

that showed me where I needed

to put the filling.

I just used some pie filling,

put in a few globs,

and laid over another pie crust.

Then I rolled back over it and

it actually worked.

I was really surprised.

I thought about making this tool

as well and I might in the future,

but I just used a cutter to cut them up,

put them in the oven,

let them cook for about seven or eight
minutes,

and I had some nice little pies.

That turned out to be pretty cool

and I was actually really happy that
it worked.

I was a little concerned that the spaces

were going to be too close together,

it wasn't going to be big enough,

and I realized that I had made it longer

than it was wide,

so they were going to be kind of
weird looking.

Using it for desserts actually

worked out perfectly because

now they look like little tiny pies.

In case you were wondering,

that was just a pie filling inside some

store-bought pie crust

at 450 degrees for about 7 minutes.

This may not be a thing that you use

in your kitchen very often,

I know I probably won't.

But it was a really cool challenge

to figure out how to replicate it.

And also, I'm always looking for projects

that give me an excuse

to practice on my new lathe.

Anyway, this was a fun thing to

figure out how to do.

I'd love to know what you think about it.

Let me know down in the comments.

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Thanks for watching guys.

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