Holiday gifts

[poolhound]

I got started on some holiday gifts over the last few weeks and have been making some cutting boards. Here is an example of an end grain butchers block, a regular cutting board and some cheese boards.

[steve-norrell]

Jon, very nice looking boards. What were the woods used?

Regards, Steve

[mschrank]

Nice work, Jon...those will be appreciated by the recipients.

I really like the one in the top picture...at first glance, it looks the a solid piece zig-zagging up the middle!

[Norm in Fujino]

Beautiful boards, all. What kind of glue?

[rcp612]

Beautiful!!!
I am most impressed with the first one though, that is fantastic.

[Uncle Cracker]

Good stuff, Jon!

[poolhound]

The woods used were Maple, Cherry, Paduak, Walnut & White Oak. Glue was TB3.

The design layout makes a big difference in the finished look. Once I knew roughly how big each piece would be I used the computer and made a "tile" for each. I then rearranged into differrent patterns to see which looked best.

Having LOML take a look also helped

[chabin76]

Good looking gifts. Is the difference between the cutting board and the cheese board just the size?

[Ed62]

Nice looking boards. They'll be well appreciated.

Ed

[lrogers]

Those are great looking Jon. Some one is going to be VERY happy.

[GPA61]

Very,very nice.

[poolhound]

Good looking gifts. Is the difference between the cutting board and the cheese board just the size?

Thanks,

The cheese boards do tend to be smaller and certainly thinner. These are about 1/2" thick.

[just started]

What finish did you put on them? They look really shiny.

[chopnhack]

Really great work! Very fine looking presents

[Bill in Buena Park]

Very nice Jon. I need to start on a few of those myself.