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I have this problem. I have too much wood in my garage workshop.
There’s only one solution: make more stuff. So I did.
All cutting boards have routed hand holds on each end for easy handling. Non-skid rubber feet attach with stainless steel screws for long life. Finish is mineral oil, with a top coat of Mrs M’s special Board Butter that combines mineral oil with locally produced beeswax (and it smells like honey when I rub it in!).
These cutting boards are for Mrs M’s Handmade fall craft shows which begin in September. So now the only question is … how soon do I need to make more?
# 71 Cutting Board, $125. 17-1/2″ x 12-1/4″ x 1-5/8″. End Grain. Walnut, Hard Maple & Padauk.
# 73 Cutting Board, $100. 15-1/4″ x 11-3/8″ x 1-3/16″. Edge grain. Black Walnut, Hard Maple & Padauk.
# 56 Cutting Board, $85. 14-1/4″ x 11-3/4″ x 1-3/8″. End Grain. Black Walnut.
# 55 Cutting Board, $85. 14-1/2″ x 11-5/8″ x 1-3/8″. End Grain. Hard Maple & Walnut.
# 53 Cutting Board, $85. 18″ x 11-3/4″ x 1-3/8″. End Grain. Hard Maple & Walnut.
# 54 Cutting Board, $85. 13-1/4″ x 11″ x 1-3/8″. End Grain. Walnut, Hard Maple & Jatoba.
# 72 Cutting Board, $100. Black Walnut and Hard Maple, edge grain. 16-1/4″ x 11-5/8″ x 1-5/8″.
# 52 Cutting Board, $85. 14-1/4″ x 11-5/8″ x 1-1/4″. End Grain. Hard Maple & Walnut.
# 57 Cutting Board, $60 each. Edge grain. 11″ x 11″ x 1-1/2″. Hard Maple, Padauk, Yellowheart & Walnut.
Three pieces were made from some walnut I got from a contractor doing home restorations. There are 3 slightly different sizes. # 1 is 11-3/8″ x 10-3/4″ x 1-1/8″. # 2 is 10-5/8″ x 10-1/2″ x 1-1/8″. # 3 is 10-7/8″ x 9-1/4″ x 1-1/8″. End Grain. Black Walnut.
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In round 3, I created a few patterns for personalized bowls … in this case, Velda drew the pattern for her “perfect sourdough loaf” bread bowl.
After hogging out the waste on the drill press, the routing begins.
Here the routing is about half done; I’m through the top layer of Red Oak and just beginning to route the Walnut.
I made two versions. The bottom one was from a single White Oak board, and the other was made from two pieces of 4/4 Red Oak sandwiching a piece of 1/2″ thick Walnut.
This blank is two glue-ups of 4/4 Black Walnut sandwiched around a glue-up of a wonderful old piece of 8/4 Black Walnut.
The perfect snack companion for a football game!
One of my favorite pieces, made from Yellowheart, Teak and Walnut. I was able to piece this together out of scrap, and the results were very unique.
Here’s the same pattern made from two very different wood combinations. On the left, 4/4 Purpleheart and 8/4 Red Oak gives a very different result from the yellowheart/walnut/teak version.
This large square server was fun to make from Hard Maple and Purpleheart. The problem is always that Purpleheart burns SO EASILY when you are sanding or routing. These pieces were still wet (they hadn’t dried out in the workshop for a few months before I machined them), so I believe that made the problem worse.
I made two of these small, shallow bowls. Woods are Koa (in the middle), Cherry (next to the Koa) and Tigerwood. Rather spectacular, and the Koa changes colors as you rotate it in the light.
This simple bowl is made from Honey Locust (on top), Walnut and Cherry. The color variation in the Honey Locust is due to sapwood in the piece that I used … that’s a feature, not a defect!
Same blanks were used for all three: 8/4 Hard Maple with 4/4 Purpleheart. The one on top shows more of the passionate color when filled with candy. Your preference?
I found some wonderful Padauk on sale at the Pasadena Rockler store for just $5.99/board foot. This large bowl is a sandwich of two glue-ups of 4/4 Padauk surrounding a third White Oak glue-up, planed to 1/2″ thick. This bowl used 3 board feet of Padauk and 1-1/2 board feet of White Oak (most of which became sawdust, unfortunately!).
The color is not re-touched. It’s really that orange.
Walnut oil was used to finish all of these bowls. And, oh my, does the color pop on this one!
Padauk is photo-reactive. Over time, UV light will change the bright orange to a warm brown. Better keep it in the dark until Hallowe’en!
This multi-wood blank is destined to be a pretty bowl. After I glued up Jatoba, Cherry, Walnut and Tigerwood, I ran it through the planer to get what will become the bottom of the bowl absolutely flat on both sides.
With the bottom of the bowl flat, I can attach it to a second glue-up of Honey Locust, that will be the rim of the bowl. I used cauls across the top of the bowl to ensure the Honey Locust was glued to the bottom blank at all points.
Colorful shavings when you drill out the not-a-bowl.
You begin to see the ultimate look of the bowl as it is routed out.
All of the bowls got their bottom edge rounded on the router table.
Some got a smooth bottom edge, but this bowl got a relieved bottom, making the bowl appear to float above the table.
The wonderful grain pattern on the outside of the bowl is a piece of Jatoba.
This brand goes on every piece … but Velda has claimed this one!
This bowl has different sections routed to different depths. The blank is two pieces of 4/4 Hard Maple sandwiched around Purpleheart, that I planed down to just 1/4″ in thickness.
All of those scallops were a challenge to get clean and pretty, I assure you!
Now that’s a bowl ready for Christmas!
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Round Two: The Bowl Adventure
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For Christmas, I made Velda a large, long grain cutting board made of both domestic and exotic hardwoods. Here’s what I used:
Honey Locust – because as nice as she is … she definitely has thorns
Cherry – because she can be sweet
Jatoba – because sometimes I have no idea what she means
Walnut – because she’s definitely nutty
Tigerwood – because I’ve seen her angry
The cutting board measures 1′-9″ long x 1′-3-7/8″ wide x 1-1/4″ thick. That’s a very large cutting board … but that’s what she wanted. To finish, I gave it an initial coat of mineral oil, wiped it off when it was dry, and then added a Velda-made mineral oil and beeswax combination: 25% beeswax by volume. It has rubber feet so it won’t slide around; I expect it to get some use in her kitchen!
The companion small boards are made of the same woods, and are intended as cheese servers. They each measure 9-1/2″ long x 9-1/2″ wide x 7/8″ thick.
I bought Tigerwood for this project; caught it on sale and ended up using these pieces in 7 of the projects I made.
First step: lay out the boards in a pattern that is pleasing to the eye.
To make sure the boards stayed in order, I used 3 techniques. Each board was numbered in order, 1 – 17. I drew a chevron across the face of the board so you could tell at a glance if they were in order. Finally, I used blue painters tape to hold each half of the board together until I was ready to start glue-ups … I was taking 25 projects through the production process at the same time!
I assembled the board in two halves … it’s easier to only glue up that many at one time, and half of the project would fit into my planer; the whole project would not.
Break the tape, lay the boards out, and then rotate all but the last board 90 degrees to expose the glue face.
Cover every bit of the exposed boards with glue. No dry joints allowed!
Carefully begin clamping the boards together.
I wasn’t overly concerned with keeping the top surface flat, as this glue-up would go through the planer to flatten it out.
There are many techniques to remove squeeze out (excess glue) … I use wet paper towels to wipe most of the glue off.
Both sides have to be cleaned!
Let set 24 hours.
Plane the left and right halves at the same time to ensure they are exactly the same thickness … and then glue up the two halves, making sure the project is flat and smooth.
Finish was two coats of mineral oil.
After the second coat of mineral oil, I did a topcoat of a mineral oil/beeswax mixture to help give the board more protection from water.
Cutting board, 2 cheese boards.
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I have this problem. I have too much wood in my 
