Cutting Board for my Niece
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Tagged: Cutting Board, quarter-sawn white oak
Bought a nice board of quarter-sawn white oak and made this cutting board for my niece. Those medullary rays are “really smiling up at me” when I get it in the right light. It’s 12″ x 16″ and just under 3/4″ thick. That made the mortise walls just under 3/16″ thick – I was a bit worried about that when driving the drawbore pegs, but no problems.
Very happy with this project. The joints are tight and the wood is beautiful. I learned a lesson about sanding with silicon carbide paper, though. The open grained oak collected lots of carbide dust and I ended up having to re-plane and re-scrape the whole thing to remove it. Then re-sanded with some aluminum oxide paper and had no problems. Finished with two coats of mineral oil.
I also had success for the first time with my #80 cabinet scraper. After reading some recent blog posts by Ralph Boumenot (http://accidentalwoodworker.blogspot.com) about sharpening and setting the iron, I resharpened my iron and finally (finally!!) got good shavings, as seen in one of the pictures.
That’s beautiful Matt. The way you match the grain is fantastic.
Thanks, guys. Your comments really mean a lot. Now on to my workbench.