Cutting Board – Viewer Project
This week’s project is submitted by Andre. Let’s check it out:
“My wife, Jen and I were recently married in a beautiful park in Manotick, Ontario, Canada (we’re from Ottawa). I wanted to make something for my parents as a thank you for all their help. When I saw the sorry state of their flexible cutting mat I knew exactly what to make. I found a picture of a great end grain cutting board online and adapted it slightly. I used maple for most of it, jatoba for the vertical loop, walnut for the horizontal one and cherry for the square and corners. I routed a juice groove on one side and handles on the edges. I finished it with three coats of General Finishes Salad Bowl Finish and two coats of salad bowl wax. The only problem I had was the lack of a drum sander, luckily my local lumber yard has one. It cost me $30 to get them to thickness it for me. It took me about 2 months working a couple of hours every other night after work. My mom says she likes it so much she doesn’t want to use it… duh!!! Hope you enjoy the pics.”
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Great work Andre! The pattern is really nice and I’m sure that your parents appreciated the gesture. I’m hoping to make some for Christmas gifts next year.
That’s a fantastic cutting board!! I love the Celtic knot-style design — matches our wedding rings… which means I’ll have to build one for my wife…
So can you not run it through a thickness planer because of the end-grain?
I can never find the link when I need it, but I knew we had a big discussion about that at some point in the past. General consensus was that end grain in the planer is bad news, although some folks do it. After all that hard work on a beautiful board, its awfully risky (and potentially dangerous).
I planed a cutting board I made a xmas and it worked beautifully. No problems at all.
Wow… I don’t think I could make that out of Legos, let alone wood.
Excellent job! It is beautiful.
Very nice, Andre! I like it a lot. I’ve made a few end grain boards, but yours is REALLY cool, so now I’ll have to make at least one more… Thanks for the inspiration!
Andy
Oh – I meant to ask – if Andre is reading this, how big is this board? Dimensions and thickness? Looks like it’s pretty large, but I can’t quite tell from the pics.
Thanks!
Andy
I like it alot. Nice work I can see why she wouldn’t want to use it.
Wonderful design. Major glue-up!!
I have run large end-grain cutting boards thru my planer – glued a sacrificial MDF board to the in/out feed edges of the board, thus eliminating chipout of the end grain. It really put my planer under lots of load, even when taking less than 1/32″ (never more than that), but it worked.
What a fun piece. I really like the design. My Moms said the same thing about their cutting boards that I gave to them. I had to make them ones that weren’t so pretty to get them to use them!!! Good job!!!
Andre, that is an absolutely beautiful piece of work. You should publish an article on how you did it. Is the piece 18″ by 24″? Just a guess if each block is 1″ on a side. I’d really like to know more about the process.
Thanks for sharing it with us.
I remember in high school shop class (long, long ago) a guy tried running an end grain cutting board through the 20″ planer. I have no idea how deep of a cut he was trying to take, but it only made it about 2″ or 3″ before it “exploded”. It seriously made a huge racket and scared the crap out of everyone including the teacher.
Excellent job!!
I made a cutting board for my mother for x-mas and the same thing happened; she likes it so much she does not want to use it.
Again… very nice job!
Stephane
Great Cutting Board. I thought that using walnut in a cutting board was a no no. But hey what do i know. Maybe the finish on it will protect it? Just wondering.
Mark
Looks like I’m a little behind, (I was gone away). The board is 1 1/2 x 18 x 15. Let me tell you about my planer experience. I tried because I read somewhere that if you take a small enough bite it is safe. Lets just say that I’m glad I was standing beside the planer and not behind it. About 1/4 of the board was grabbed, torn off and flung half way across my shop!! Luckily it was a comparatively easy fix, but I’ll NEVER do it again. I never realized that walnut was bad in cutting boards… Oops, I hope it’s not too bad!!
Andre
Bee U ti Ful………… Great Job
I’m Andres’ father, my wife cried when she saw it. I’m getting a little misty just reading the reviews, and I have showed this website to everyone at work. Just recently Andre made a tea box for his mother for mother’s day. Again, she cried, hope he submits this one too.