I recently made this small wood platter.  I attended a wood turners group meeting in Sacramento last week with the Nor Cal wood turners group.  One of their semi professional wood turners named Neal Devore demonstrated making square, rectangular platters.  I bought four pieces of raw wood from him and was able to turn this piece.  I added a small nob to carry it based on Linda suggestion.  The piece has nice figuring.  I will make three more with the walnut wood I have left over.