My cutting board project
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26 November 2013 at 10:51 am #22305
Hi,
I recently completed the cutting board project and I’d like to share some of my experiences.
It was great fun making this project a really good learning experience. For some reason I used to find mortise and tenons a struggle to make accurately, but this project gave me more confidence and improved my accuracy.
Two things I still want to practice are:
– getting clean, straight mortise walls
– avoiding a skewed groove when using the plough plane (try as I might, I couldn’t avoid this)I also made a huge mistake: when I cut the last haunch I realised I’d flipped the board so the tenon was near the outside edge instead of the inside edge. Since I’d already chopped the mortise there was little I could do. I decided to saw off the tenon (leaving just the haunch) and slide it through the mortise hole. This was a cosmetic patch up but it made that last tenon effectively useless for holding the boards together. I did use some glue along the haunch to help hold that side of the board together. My lesson here is: after marking, check and check again that things are the right way around!
I actually ended up with two projects, as I used the remaining oak to make two small cutting boards.
Anyway, here are some pics of the end result.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.26 November 2013 at 2:44 pm #22318Well done you have learned a lesson. Double check before you cut.
I must say that looks a nick piece of Oak and those medullary rays look loverly. -
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