[helluvawreck]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

McLean, these are great looking designs.

 

[WoodArtbyJR]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

McLean, let me see if the my right brain is viewing these correctly. Your image in the circle is the difference in lay out for using a 2 piece (of wood) pattern. Other then the newly inserted different colored wood, follow part one's pattern layout. Correct? Sometimes when I use my whole brain to think I get cornfused (not a typo). Thank you for the new designs and thank you for taking Larry and I's suggestions as to not using a planer to plan endgrain boards. BAD idea. Not a safe thing to do.

 

[bvdon]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

Note that these designs will yield edge grain (as opposed to a preferred end grain).

 

[McLeanVA]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

bvdon - Sorry if I misunderstood your last comment, but these are actually end grain patterns. The previous blog post describes the process and makes more sense of the circle diagrams represented to the right of each pattern. Picture staring at the end grain "down the length" when viewing these insets. These inform the initial "sticks" on Step 3.

 

[QUACKENBUSH]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

THESE DESIGNS ARE AWSOME. NOT BEING CREATIVE, THEY STIR UP THE FEW BRAIN CELLS STILL COOKING. I'LL PROBABLY TRY YOU BASIC BOARD BEFORE THESE ZIGGERS, JUST FOR SOME NEEDED PRACTICE. THANKS FOR THE GOOD INSTRUCTIONS..

 

[ward63]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

Excellent! I definitely wanna check out your boards. Just hope my eyes don't wander when I'm cutting

 

[ElmoSr]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

well i am doing the original zigzag now-going to make final crosscut this morning, thanks for this info-an amazing set of boards

 

[Pritch]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

Thanks so much for TWO great postings! You've solved my Christmas gift dilemma and I can't wait to get started working in Santa's workshop!

I know I'm going to have a flat forehead from slapping myself once I have the answer, but are the sticks shown in plan form or on end? In other words, how am I looking at the strips used to make the pattern; 1.) from above or 2.) from the end?

 

[McLeanVA]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

Pritch - Thank you and I hope you are wildly successful in making these. If you pay attention to the grain, you have high chances for success.

To answer your question, yes the insets are looking at the end-grain. Not "down" on them at the edge grain. Hope this helps. Let me know when you post a finished board. I'd love to check it out.

 

[Pritch]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

Outstanding! I'm heading off to buy the wood now!

 

[NavyFlyerTom]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

Thanks for the tutorial. I tried out your thick and thin zigzag pattern. I screwed up the proportions a little and had to mill the parts down a little smaller giving it a kind of odd finished look though. I think it's one of those things that only a woodworker really notices though because everybody else seems to like it. The rest of your patterns and some of Poroskywood's have given me plenty of ideas for my next projects. Thanks again.

 

[CCWoodcrafts]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

Thanks!

 

[mlbmichigander]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

why can't I see the photos? I really want to see this project! All I see is a graphic that says , update the account for third-party hosting?

 

[bigfred]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

I would also what to hell is third-party hosting?

 

[McLeanVA]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

@mlbmichigander and @bigfred. I have re-uploaded the illustrations I created. Lumberjocks must have changed their image hosting clients. Luckily I still had them saved to my computer. I hope these help you.

 

[ken48]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

I've been watching people making end grain cutting boards on YouTube but it looked so complicated and with my limited experience, and resources I was afraid to try it. Your instructions are so clear and concise that I may have to give it a try. I don't have a thickness planer so like dozuki I will have to rely on my belt sander to get it to the proper thickness and level. Thank you for your post and the great instructions.

 

[Lowie]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

excellent more cutting board tutorials please

 

[dorado0177]

Zig Zag Cutting Board Patterns - Inspirational

I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Zig Zag How To blog post yesterday, that I decided to brainstorm some possible combinations (on my lunch break) using the basic steps I outlined yesterday. All of the same techniques and steps apply, and really the only difference is the woods and measurements that make up the original "sticks." Same rules apply to width = height. Length is up to you.

Please experiment with whatever measurements and combinations strike you. Have fun with these. There are so many possibilities. If you run into a great new pattern, post it. I'd love to see it.

Thanks LJs for being such an inspirational online community. First one to post one of these gets a giant thumbs up and my sincere admiration.

I hope these inspire you.

Very awesome looking boards, I'm new to this site, is there a way to print