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   esch5995 | Feb 16, 2022 10:42am | #1

   Without know the size you have in mind I'm not sure it's possible to make any suggestions. If they are much smaller than 5-6" it will be a little sketchy IMO.

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   user-7627473 | Feb 16, 2022 11:17am | #2

   For an average radius/curving edge meaning not absolutely uniform for every piece - one method would be to cut out the elliptical blanks and hot melt glue them on top of another ellipse ply etc. that is smaller. Glue (permanent and/or with fastener )the bottom of the smaller ellipse to the end a large dowel. Put the dowel in a vise and radius the edges with a R.O.S.

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   pantalones868 | Feb 16, 2022 04:26pm | #3

   Whittle? Oh, you mean by machine- a cnc could reproduce those and toss them out like popcorn. Otherwise, scroll saw, band saw the ellipse ,double stick or 3m them to a devise you invent to hold them and rasp and files and knives and sand until its done-- in other words "whittle"!

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   john_c2 | Feb 16, 2022 04:31pm | #4

   If I could just buy them, I would.

   I love making stuff. But making some things are just more trouble than they're worth.

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   esch5995 | Feb 16, 2022 04:39pm | #5

   If they are as small as they look, I'm thinking CNC. I have no experience with CNCs nor do I want any, but they do make operations possible that can't be done any other way. Here I could see cutting one side at a time leaving a very thin layer of wood holding the piece in place. You could cut multiple pieces out of a block of wood then break them out and smooth the edge with a quick pass on a belt sander.

   I don't see any practical and safe way to make such pieces with more conventional tools and or methods, not in any volume anyway.

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   pantalones868 | Feb 16, 2022 04:44pm | #6

   You could cut out the shape and then carry one in your mouth for a couple of years like the Navaho did with turquoise for their jewelry!

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   elmaduro | Feb 17, 2022 11:38am | #10

   Or just collect them where they lay after falling off the deciduous Hen tree.

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   rob_ss | Feb 17, 2022 04:47am | #7

   Do you want these individually or in quantity?

   The process is similar - prep stock to thickness. Cut out shape, rout to final shape, rout roundover, sand.

   For small numbers or if a CNC is not available, a template to use with a flush trim bit is the solution. For large numbers, you can batch out the blanks on a CNC, and if you were very careful with your stock prep you could even do the roundovers on a CNC too, but doing double sided jobs is not easy.

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   esch5995 | Feb 17, 2022 05:15am | #8

   Rob_SS, I'm not sure it's advisable to to be suggesting those steps without knowing the size the OP is intending these to be, which is why my first post asked that question. If they are as small as they seem, say 3" major axis 1½" minor axis I'm definitely sweating a bit cutting the oval on a bandsaw but there is no way I'm getting anyway near my router table to round them over or suggesting to anyone else they do that.

   I think it is very important to error on the side of safety when advising procedures in this forum to woodworkers of unknown experience levels.

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   john_c2 | Feb 17, 2022 05:38am | #9

   Yes. There are ways to safely hold small parts for routing, if they are square or rectangular. But not for this kind of shape.

   If I needed one or two I'd use rasps and sandpaper. But it would be horribly tedious.

   I wonder if it could be done in some sort of tumbler.

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   noober | Feb 17, 2022 12:01pm | #11

   They don't look very football shaped, more like a good skipping stone, so how about pretending it's a bunch of wooden spoon blanks?

   Leave a "handle" you can clamp into a vise, then round over everything you can with a dremel, rasps, grinder, pick your poison...

   Then cut off the "handle" and make that part match.