I've into a kick of making homemade pizza lately so I decided I needed a pizza peel. Not a big project like furniture or anything. In fact I knocked it out in one day along with other projects. I found a short piece of Birdseye maple in my stash and along with a skinny piece of mahogany and plenty of walnut scraps it went right together. To taper the front edge I just used a big belt sander. I used it that night and it worked well.