While unpacking my office, I discovered that the hanger for my Galileo Thermometer had been ‘misplaced’, AKA Missing without any expectation of finding it.  I was very disappointed as I love this Thermometer.  It was a gift from Kerry and it is beautiful, functional, and fascinating.

The missing hanger was nothing more than a fancy screw eye in which the cylindrical glass thermometer hung from the center of the eye.  Having recently acquired some new shaping tools, I decided that it would be a fun and useful learning project to make a hanger from wood, rather than the chrome plated steel of the original.

Fishing through my scraps of wood, I found the perfect piece, which had, not only, interesting grain, but was also a piece that would be difficult to use in a piece of furniture.  It was a piece of Cherry that was a cut-off from a previous project and had a lot of sapwood.  The grain was too interesting for me to discard the cutoff so it kicked around in my cutoff box for years, just waiting for a project like this.

I won’t bore you with the construction details so, without further ado, here is the result!