Edge grain cutting board with end grain butt joints?

This is just speculation, but perhaps you could use a dowel or a domino for the end joints. A better option might be a router bit designed for glue joints. Some give you quite a bit of surface area. Here is just one example.

-- Jeffrey

This is just speculation, but perhaps you could use a dowel or a domino for the end joints. A better option might be a router bit designed for glue joints. Some give you quite a bit of surface area. Here is just one example.

- menuisierJC

I thought about that, but don’t have the time to wait for a bit and didn’t want the extra expense. Just looking for a potential quick and easy use of scrap. Might get that for the long-term though because making board potentially worth $40-50 out of otherwise scrap would be more than worth the bit.

Instead of butt joints, make a scarf joint.

-- Half of what we read or hear about finishing is right. We just don’t know which half! — Bob Flexner

Butt joints will be fine. End-ways dimensional changes are minimal esp in such a short run.

-- The hump with the stump and the pump!

Butt joints will be fine as long as you don’t line then up with each other across the board, wood does not move in length so different species butting to each other is a non-issue.

-- Bondo Gaposis

I did the same thing but used a thick (1/4”) spline about 1/2” deep into each end. With a 1/8” spline, a simple pass over a FTG tablesaw blade would do the trick.

The vote for butt joints if you can cut the two opposite side square on the ends . I don’t mean kinda sorta square but very near perfect in two directions

-- Aj

I made one similar to this several years ago and still no problems, and it is heavily used. Just my two cents worth. Mel

-- MEL, Kansas

The vote for butt joints if you can cut the two opposite side square on the ends . I don’t mean kinda sorta square but very near perfect in two directions

- Aj2

That’s a good point. I can trim each joining piece on opposite sides of my table saw for miter saw to be sure they line up even if it’s not exactly square.