I found a scrap piece of cherry in the shop wood rack and it started a thought process on what could be made with it. Lots of maple scraps from the three living room tables and that got me started. Nothing remarkable in the design as this will be a working piece to replace or supplement an old commercially made one of some indeterminate wood with lots of pores. The assembled board is 20"x15"x1" made from 19 strips of wood with four wooden button feet on the bottom side. It should have been a freebee, but $45 bowl bit was needed.
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I found a scrap piece of cherry in the shop wood rack and it started a thought process on what could be made with it. Lots of maple scraps from the three living room tables and that got me started. Nothing remarkable in the design as this will be a working piece to replace or supplement an old commercially made one of some indeterminate wood with lots of pores. The assembled board is 20"x15"x1" made from 19 strips of wood with four wooden button feet on the bottom side. It should have been a freebee, but $45 bowl bit was needed.
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I should have taken a picture of the board before I started applying the mineral oil finish. Before the oil, the maple strips were pretty much a uniform color with different grain structures. They looked very similar until the oil. Then the maple changed quite a bit and not what I expected. The craftsmen who assembled the butcher block island top my cutting board is sitting on is so uniform in appearance after many applications of mineral oil. The pros obviously carefully selected the wood that went into the top construction. Something to ponder for the future. Both pieces are edge grain maple. The cutting board is a mix of hard and soft maple while the island top is all hard maple.Jim Frye
The Nut in the Cellar.
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Looks good, nonetheless.Loring in Katy, TX USA
If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to treat all problems as if they were nails.
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IMHO, each project is a learning process. But when they come out looking as good as that.... it's all good.Comment
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Oh goodness. Our Son saw the cutting board at Thanksgiving dinner and requested one. Just spent the afternoon tearing the wood rack apart looking for more scraps. Guess he gets an additional Christmas present, if I hustle.Jim Frye
The Nut in the Cellar.
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Now down to $22 each because the bowl bit is amortized over two units.Loring in Katy, TX USA
If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to treat all problems as if they were nails.
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Nicely done Jim. Great point that there is not bottom to having to buy a tool to do a project. I actually like the different shades in your finished project. To me it makes it look real.just another brick in the wall...
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Must have sprung for a Whiteside bowl bit!
Loring in Katy, TX USA
If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to treat all problems as if they were nails.
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For these projects, you can never have too many clamps! Here is the second cutting board in its final glue up. This one is composed of cherry, red oak, and hard and soft maple scraps. I have major issues doing multiple glue joins at once, so these are assembled from the center strips out. I add a strip on each side and clamp it for at least four hours. Note the cauls holding the workpiece flat on the assembly table. On a piece this thin (1 1/8" at this point), it can be a challenge to keep it flat while assembling it. The table is covered with plastic wrap to keep it from being glopped up with dried glue. After this cures completely, I'll flatten each face with a belt sander (don't have a drum sander and it's too wide for my planer) and then cut the blank to size on the table saw. Then all the sanding begins followed by the gutter routing.
Last edited by Jim Frye; 12-03-2022, 12:11 PM.Jim Frye
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