Triple-border end grain cutting board

Gorgeous work.
Jon

That’s a neat board. Did you figure it out, or was it one someone did before you? I don’t remember seeing an all end grain board with piping like that before. Plenty of face grin boards looking like that though.

Nice work.

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Very nice job. The orientation of the Cherry looks outstanding.

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therealSteveN. — it was one I just came up with. I agree w you though that there are a lot of face grain boards w borders but not as many w all end grain. More steps but I like the look of end grain. The borders definitely add more glue ups but it’s worth it in the end in my opinion.

Very classy!

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That’s beautiful

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Me likey. A lot more work this way but worth the effort. Well done!

-- Brian, Calgary

beautiful

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therealSteveN. — it was one I just came up with. I agree w you though that there are a lot of face grain boards w borders but not as many w all end grain. More steps but I like the look of end grain. The borders definitely add more glue ups but it’s worth it in the end in my opinion.

- gustmadeit

Great imagination then to make that work so seamlessly. I can easily see the border, and the wider strip. I imagine you had a pickle of a time getting those very thin strips to behave.

I readily agree the look makes it worth the work.

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Yeah the strips are delicate. Basically I still use the planer to get them to thickness, but I rip them into 2” strips before planing. If you run stock with grain parrellel to the cuttingblades, it can easily plug the dust collector. Weird but the wood shavings are different when you plane this way. So to minimum clogging the DC, I rip them first. And take extremely light passes. But it’s doable. The thin ones are 1/4” so they are delicate, likely would break if you dropped one. The other ones were 5/8” and 1/2” and then outside border is 1”. So a far bit of planer work but with some patience it’s achievable. When I made all the strips I started with 20” pieces then cut in half to 10”, then did glueup. Cut 4 strips of 2.125” each so I had a little waste but not much. Better to have a little waste then realize you cut up an expensive piece of walnut and find out your short. Basically ends up being a lot of measuring using digital caliper.

This is a great looking board. I love the design, very beautiful!

-- AJ

Nice job and congratulations on your ‘Daily Top 3’ award.

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