Just a Stick of Wood

I bought some teak moulding some time ago and just leaned it up in the corner of the shop.  No real project or use for it.  Actually some time was maybe 1 year ago.  Last weekend I took a look at it, obviously it was completely dry, and amazingly flat and straight as can be.  I decided to make a wooden straight edge from the piece.  Here are some of the shots:

I did not photograph the intial shaping process, but pretty straightforward, just laid out the curve and got to use my Gramercy Bow Saw to make the cuts.  Then shaped it down with a scraper and spokeshave.  This is after intial shaping, here just doing some intial smoothing and tapering the leading edge to about 1/4"

Drilling out the handle area with Brace and Bit.   Half way through one side, half way through the other nice and clean holes.

Cutting the handle area with a key hole saw.

Some shaping with rasps and files.

Final piece prior to finish.

A couple of coats of teak oil.  Kind of happy with just this "stick of wood".