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29 December 2020 at 11:39 pm #692224
Colin I regret that I have not had time to work in my shop since posting this thread. Your board looks very nice and I will hopefully get some time in the next week or two to get out in the shop and do a little work. I want to get the cuttingboard done and I plan on building an armoires style jewelry box out of walnut for my wife.
15 December 2020 at 4:26 am #690130Roberto Fischer that would be correct. The long strips glued together and cross cut is how you get the pattern you desire for the cutting board. As far as the process of making the board itself I am fully aware and understand. If I had the big sanders and planers that most people use for them or for that matter wanted to use one (I have acces to them if I wanted to use them) the question would not be posed. The question is if anyone has a good method of finishing the end grain of the cutting board after it is fully glued up with hand tools that would not take a month of Sundays. Some of the suggestions here are along the same thought process I have had already and it has been good to hear that feedback. I appreciate your response and the video to explain the process thank you very much.
14 December 2020 at 6:55 pm #690074I don’t plan on doing a large cutting board just something small for the parents to be able to use on their counter when cutting meat or vegetables and store away easily in small spaces. Probably no bigger than 18″X12″X1″. Thank you for the replys I definitely planned on using a shooting board and bench hook with saw guide. I also plan on setting up a planing jig to ensure all my pieces are planed to the exact same size and all four sides are square to each other.
My concern is planing the cutting board after the final glue up so the top and bottom surfaces are flat and parallel to each other, which will be the end grain of the pieces. I know I can get my peices close with the shooting board but I have been doing woodworking for a long time and am not under any false pretense that my glue up will be so perfect that it will not need a final planing or sanding to flatten the surfaces.
I do plan on gluing each row first then doing a glue up with all the rows together. So I can clean up each row prior to gluing them together which will help to some degree for sure. I know it wil be a lot of work for sure. For power tools I have a table saw, band saw, and compound miter saw that are all good high quality tools. I do not own a thickness planer, or any sanders with the exception of a couple orbital hand sanders.
Thank you for your feed back Colin Scowen and Sven-Olof Jansson I appreciate the confirmation that my thought process is in line with others. That helps me tremedously and boosts my confidence on pulling of this project.
13 December 2020 at 9:15 pm #689973That was my thinking as well and was hoping with some degree of pessimism that someone out there would have some good suggestions or experience to give advice that would reduce the amount of time for finishing the the project. Thanks for the response and feedback.
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