Project by TheFridge | posted 08-05-2017 02:53 AM | 1725 views | 0 times favorited | 10 comments | ![]() |
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My boss asked me to make him a cutting board out of a chunk of a shuffleboard table he had. Made of laminated maple it was.
I scrubbed the heavy varnish off the top and bottom. Came back with a 5-1/2, 4-1/2, and 1 to flatten and smooth the top. Finished smoothing with a card scraper. The bottom I fjust flattened it. I wasn’t that concerned about getting the scrubs tearout gone.
Trimmed all the edges and wrecked my Forrest ww2 because of unseen nails. Yay!
With a router, I cut a dado all the way around. I started 3/4 from the top and bottom edges and used a 3/8 round over bit with the bearing removed and lost ground down so I could round the inside of the dado over. I smoothed the dado bottom with a router plane.
I turned some 1”w x 1/2” tall walnut feet with a 3/4 tenon. Bored a couple holes and glued them in. I shaved a couple down with a 60-1/2 to level it out.
The fleur-de-lys (flower of life in French or something like that) inlay is made out of African padauk cut with a fret saw. I used a dremel to remove a bulk of the waste out of the cutting board and finished with an 1/8” chisel and fishtail chisel. Glued in with tb3 as I didn’t feel like dragging out the glue pot.
Finished a mixture of beeswax and mineral oil.
thanks fer looking
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Don W
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#1 posted 08-05-2017 10:08 AM
Well done
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#2 posted 08-05-2017 02:05 PM
This cutting board turned out nicely.
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#3 posted 08-05-2017 04:40 PM
Thanks guys
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#4 posted 08-05-2017 06:16 PM
Nice stuff Fridge. Inlay looks boss! Too bad about the WWII though :-(
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#5 posted 08-05-2017 06:30 PM
Thanks bud. Boss should be ordering new blade and bits soon. Hopefully soon :)
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#6 posted 08-06-2017 09:39 AM
Hello TheFridge
Well done
A very good idea
Thanks for sharing
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#7 posted 08-07-2017 01:45 PM
Good to hear the blade will be replace.
No pics of the dado or walnut feet? What gives?
The fleur-de-lys came out fantastic!
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#8 posted 08-07-2017 03:49 PM
I’m a loser. I forgets about pics during sometimes :(
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#9 posted 08-07-2017 03:59 PM
nice boss … GREAT JOB :<))
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#10 posted 08-07-2017 04:01 PM
Thanks bud, I use the push shoe thingy you gave me all the time now. The simple things in life eh? :) thanks again for the goodies
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