A Piece of Log to Awesome Butcher Block End Grain Cutting Board
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- čas přidán 21. 06. 2020
- I made an awesome butcher block end grain elm cutting board from a piece of log that was sitting in my shop for the last four years! This piece of log was given given to me by a friend when he took down a dead tree on his property. I'm really glad to be able to work on a piece of log that I know the exact source of it's origination. This was my first time working with elm and in this farm-to-table style of woodworking! It was a very fun build! This will be a gift to my friend who gave me the log!
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Nice looking cutting board you have there
Thank you! It was fun to build!
Beautiful board. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks!!
Beautiful! Nice job.
Thanks!
Awesome cutting board! Thanks for sharing. Will make this soon, have many wood log in my backyard👏👏👏
Glad you like it! It’s a good way to utilize the logs by exposing the end grain and they make strong cutting boards!
Great work nice shop!
Thank you so much!
Great idea from a cookie
Thank you!!
nice board.
Thank you!
How well does the wen planer do? Im happy with the tools i got from them so far
It did really well till I tried to skip plane a very thick hickory slab. The slab broke the gib nut. I have since gotten the DeWalt 13” planer, mainly for dust collection and a bit more refinement.
Please help me with my ignorance… why not make the cutting board from a single block of wood?
It was too thick(about 4”) and too heavy. I didn’t have a way to cut in the middle to make it half instead I sawed smaller pieces and glued up.
You had the whole end grain piece, why cut it into pieces? All you needed to do was reshape it, and the cracked part could be filled in with a triangle piece of wood and glued to the crack. It would be a very high quality board ready for a chef. Including, you could make three cutting boards from the same piece. In my opinion, it wasn't very good what you did.
Good observation but the thing missing from it is, “practicality”. The slab was 4” think and was super heavy to be a practical cutting board. Also re-sawing wasn’t possible due to the diameter the cookie. Splitting it allowed me to make two cutting boards each 2” thick. I also don’t like filling cracks with epoxy on something that’s going to be used for food prep.
@@KiranBhatWoodworking I understand what you mean, but the pieces you cut were too narrow. If the pieces were bigger, it would've been a much better quality cutting board.
Elm weighs a ton. Even with the current thickness, it’s a bit of workout to carry it around.
@@KiranBhatWoodworking If what you're saying is a workout, yes you're right it's heavy. I'm talking about a quality cutting board being put in a rich house or stable home, which can be moved only in a small strong circular or rectangular table with 2 or 3 drawers at the bottom and strong legs to move it around in a kitchen, with 4 tires in each leg. That will be a wonderful table to have.
But now I understand what you mean for the medium class family, too heavy to move around. Thanks for teaching me woodworking, you did a wonderful job.