Cutting Board (I know... You see a lot of these. I'm proud of this one, though!)

[MisterDrow]

Needed a cutting board so I made one with some maple and walnut scrap I had lying around. Nothing fancy but I'm very happy with how it turned out!

the top pic makes it look like the cutting board isn't flat. It's the counter that isn't level there, sadly.

[mat60]

I like a nice cutting board..Good work.

[MisterDrow]

The last time I made one it was for a Christmas gift and I didn't have a thickness planer. SO MUCH SANDING!

the thickness planer was very nice to have this time around

[..Kev]

Nice job!  Any thoughts of one more set of cuts and a glue up to make it end grain?

[MisterDrow]

The next one I want to do will be end grain. My wife wanted this one pretty quickly so I just went with edge grain. 

[shaneymack]

Good work on the cutting board Mister ! What did you finish it with?

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[MisterDrow]

[JosephThomas]

Looks nice, thanks for sharing.  

Sidenote, why add vitamin E to mineral oil? Just a marketing thing?

[Coop]

Good job señor Drow! 

2 hours ago, TIODS said:

Nice job!  Any thoughts of one more set of cuts and a glue up to make it end grain?

I've made several long grain boards and one day Brendon pestered/dared/challenged me to make an end grain board. I figured, heck, that's too much work and I probably couldn't do it anyway. After him calling me a woose, I tried it and I'm hooked, especially if you flip every other one for a cool pattern.

[MisterDrow]

3 hours ago, JosephThomas said:

Looks nice, thanks for sharing.  

Sidenote, why add vitamin E to mineral oil? Just a marketing thing?

It's a natural disinfectant and rancidity retardant. Helps to keep the wood free of bacteria, I guess... Though the wood does a lot of that on its own. 

[gee-dub]

That came out great.  We do see a lot of cutting boards but, that is because they are fun to make, people love getting them and I, for one, enjoy seeing the side variety everyone comes up with.

Cutting board oil = 75 cents per ounce.

Food grade mineral oil = 12 cents per ounce.

I include an "owner's manual" with my cutting boards, trivets and coasters along with a small "starter" bottle of mineral oil.

[WoodPlusMore]

Very nice!! 

[tcarswell]

Great job ! I like it a lot. Cutting boards are fun. Sometimes now and again if I get frustrated in a long term complicated project I like to stop and make a gift cutting board it's a lot of fun. 

[Rex Edgar]

On July 16, 2016 at 8:49 PM, TIODS said:

Nice job!  Any thoughts of one more set of cuts and a glue up to make it end grain?

How about a visual? What's an 'end grain' cutting board look like?

[wdwerker]

End grain cutting board.

You take a edge grain cutting board glue up and rip strips the thickness you want the end grain board to have. Glue those up then sand and sand and sand... Drum sander is very useful to flatten end grain boards !

[mrrhode04]

That looks nice, I would agree with everybody that once you start doing end grain you will be hooked. You can make some crazy patterns. I would also say if you are going to keep making them on a regular basis I would get food grade mineral oil instead of the "cutting board oil". I do one good coat of mineral oil and then a top coat of a mineral oil/beeswax mix that I make. Here are a couple cutting boards I recently finished to give you an idea of the patterns you can make.