A friend recently started making a lazy Susan a mainstay on their dining room table, and I was struck by how smart the idea was; not only did their checkerboard lazy Susan look cool on the table ...

Cut the boards for the large and small Lazy Susan discs. For my 18- and 10-inch-diameter circles, I cut my maple board into four 19-inch lengths for the top and three 11-inch lengths for the bottom.

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Wu Lien-Teh, a Chinese physician who contributed to reforming disease ideas in China, is credited with bringing the revolving table a.k.a. Lazy Susan, to dinner tables worldwide.

The center of this type of table had a raised, round shelf that turned. This table was not a new idea. Many were made by rural furniture makers in Pennsylvania from about 1840 to 1880.