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Cutting Board Exotic

comments (2) February 17th, 2010 in Reader's Gallery

ICU8Dust ICU8Dust, member
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A Christmas gift for my wife for all the time spent in the shop.
End grain really soaks up a lot of oil.  I needed to flood the surface several times and the 1 5/8 inch thick board soaked through to the other side!!!
All wood species were rough sawn that needed to be planed smooth.  I was awed by the beautiful colours that my dust collector got from the thickness planer.
A testament to the sharpness of my thickness planer knives...yes thats end grain shavings!!!  I used the Scary Sharp method.
A Christmas gift for my wife for all the time spent in the shop. - CLICK TO ENLARGE

A Christmas gift for my wife for all the time spent in the shop.
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Yet another cutting board which is also end grain.  Contrasting woods are Hard Maple, Purpleheart, Jatoba and Padauk. Thickness planer with freshly sharpened knives was used to smooth the surfaces.  Finished with heavy mineral oil and then salad bowel wax.


Design or Plan used: http://thewoodwhisperer.com/episode-7-a-cut-above-part-1/
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ICU8Dust ICU8Dust writes: Thanks Curteshelman.
I used Titebond III. I acknowledge the swelling issue and time will tell. This issue was mentioned in FWW #205 and it seems all is OK if you mix up the grain directions to even out the tensions. I have somewhat mixed the tangential with radial grain as shown in the last photo. Perhaps the degree swelling will be minimized as I soaked the board with oil virtually through to the other side. I periodically re-saturate the board hoping to further minimizing humidity effects.
Posted: 12:07 am on February 18th

Curteshelman Curteshelman writes: Nice work. Terrific.

What glue did you use? And do you have trouble with the differential swelling of the different species or even of radial end-grain vs tangential end-grain?

I made an end-grain cutting board decades ago, and it broke itself to pieces all too quickly. Would like to try again.
Posted: 3:11 pm on February 17th

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