Popular Post osgw380 Posted February 4, 2016 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 These are several cutting boards I did for Christmas time. Some were gifts others were for sale or sold. The finish on all of them was salad bowl finish. Most of them are in the 18"x14" range. These are live edge Hickory long grain cutting boards. I know I know most on here don't like live edge but some do. The middle one had a few natural voids that I filled with epoxy and colored metal flake. This is an end grain chaotic pattern board. It was made with scrap. It has in it walnut, cherry, pecan and hickory. This is another end grain board. The middle is chaotic pattern with walnut, pecan, hickory, cherry and purple heart woods. The border is pecan. Just because it is a right of passage thewoodwhisperer cutting board. Made out of Cherry and Pecan woods. End grain Walnut cutting board. I left some of the sap wood for some color interest in it. And finally one last live edge cherry cutting board. Thanks Allen 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 Nice, Allen! There is a lot of discussion about what type of board is best for cutting. My 'daily driver' is a walnut and mulberry edge-grain laminated board, and it has held up quite admirably. I really like the feel of hardwood end-grain boards, though. Well polished, they feel almost like a granite slab, without the chill. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigW Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 They are all really nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keggers Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 Very nice! Thanks for posting the photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat60 Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 They are cool Allen..I bet everyone enjoys your gifts and you sell many boards.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 I like the chaos boards, that's a good idea. I also like the live edge boards, that's make me feel like i was out in the woods cutting up fresh game ready to go on the fire. I've been doing woodworking for 3 years and i still have yet to make a cutting board. I must be doing something wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osgw380 Posted February 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 1 hour ago, wtnhighlander said: Nice, Allen! There is a lot of discussion about what type of board is best for cutting. My 'daily driver' is a walnut and mulberry edge-grain laminated board, and it has held up quite admirably. I really like the feel of hardwood end-grain boards, though. Well polished, they feel almost like a granite slab, without the chill. Our daily one is a walnut hickory endgrain and I'm with you they feel like granite. 10 minutes ago, Chestnut said: I like the chaos boards, that's a good idea. I also like the live edge boards, that's make me feel like i was out in the woods cutting up fresh game ready to go on the fire. I've been doing woodworking for 3 years and i still have yet to make a cutting board. I must be doing something wrong. The chaotic boards are one way or the other it seems. I like them and the wife hates them so I put my foot down and make them and never bring them in the house.....luckily others seem to appreciate them though. You must be doing something wrong the cutting board is a right of passage....you better get on that. 31 minutes ago, mat60 said: They are cool Allen..I bet everyone enjoys your gifts and you sell many boards.. Everyone enjoys them but I can't get family to use them. I sell a few mostly the live edge type most don't see much the reason for the large price difference of the end grain. The live edge is easy to do but I like making the end grain your only limited to your imagination on what you can do. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robby W Posted February 5, 2016 Report Share Posted February 5, 2016 I really like the chaotic boards. How do you do them? Just fit pieces together until they go together? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dknapp34 Posted February 5, 2016 Report Share Posted February 5, 2016 17 hours ago, Robby W said: I really like the chaotic boards. How do you do them? Just fit pieces together until they go together? Was going to ask the same question. My guess is glue them up square then make a bunch of angled cuts then re-glue offset, lather rinse and repeat. Either way, seems like a ton of work. The result looks great though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osgw380 Posted February 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2016 3 hours ago, Dknapp34 said: Was going to ask the same question. My guess is glue them up square then make a bunch of angled cuts then re-glue offset, lather rinse and repeat. Either way, seems like a ton of work. The result looks great though! Basically what I did. I glued up several boards of scraps into blocks. I ended up with several blocks. I then cut them the thickness I wanted the cutting boards and rotated for the endgrain up and reglued. I then cut them at angles mixed up all the boards from the blocks and reglued. I did this 3 times. Then used a router sled and flattened and sanded. Lot of work but makes good use of scrap and gets rid of alot of scrap at one time. mtmwood on youtube.....be prepared to be amazed and have several hours for video watching he has a ton of great cutting board videos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart Posted February 11, 2016 Report Share Posted February 11, 2016 Very nice. I've now made a few boards and they're always well received. The mtmwood guy has some nice videos on chaotic boards, https://www.youtube.com/user/mtmwood. Also check out his CNC made inlaid boards - although not wood working in the traditional sense, I find it mesmerizing to see the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osgw380 Posted February 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2016 I just watched his new chaitic pattern which is all straight instead of angles. It give me a good laugh because I had began glueing one up like this already it will be a much faster board to make. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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