Howdy Marc! This is the cutting board that I e-mailed you about (expansion issues). I worked on this for quite some time and wanted to send you the pictures. I would have posted them before Christmas but my girlfriend might have checked out your site! It’s an end grain mahogany cutting board with slats of poplar screwed (in a breadboard manner) to the back of the board. The poplar accepts the on-lay pattern. The woods are Wenge (in the middle) Maple (the bluish gray and spalted colors) sapele, mahogany, jatoba, purple heart, cherry, and caribbean rosewood. The on-lay is about 3/8ths thick. There are a few pictures of me fixing my really stupid mistake. Where the purple heart and jatoba overlap I accidentally put two series of Jatoba instead of alternating them. I really enjoyed this project and learned quite a few things. This was one of the first times I’ve done hand cut dovetails and probably the first time I’ve done any types of inlays too. I hope this wasn’t too boring but here is my Christmas project!
That is really really nice and creative!
If those are your first dove tails i’ld say you have it figured out! Way to go!
That’s Beautiful!
But I wouldn’t be surprised if she refuses to cut on it.
I made her swear to use it. That’s why I made it with two sides. The Mahogany End Grain, she can go to town with it and hopefully preserve the decorative side.
WOW!!!! That is a truly amazing piece of work!!!!! I can’t imagine how much time you must have spent on it. If you hadn’t said anything I would never have imagined that those were your first hand cut dovetails. That’s something to be extremely proud of. Great job!!!
This is nice, but I can’t imagine using a knife on it.
Very nice indeed! I like the kalydescope effect in the middle. And the double sides is a great idea – one for cutting and one for show.
Excellent work! This is just beautiful. I can imagine the hesitation to cut on it! LOL
Congratulations!
Marc-
I went to the Woodworking Show in Houston yesterday. I would have attended all weekend, but Sunday is the “honey dew” day.
I must say, there are things out there for today’s woodworker that simply make me proud to say, this is MY hobby! WOW!
While there, I purchased a few very nice items. But since today was indeed honey do day, I haven’t had a chance to try EVERYTHING I bought.
I did get a chance to try out two of the items I purchased yesterday.
I want to start by saying, if there is a woodworker out there who ISN’T using a Forrest Woodworker II blade in their saw, they are wasting their money.
The Woodworker II blade has to be the smoothest, cleanest cutting blade I’ve ever seen! According to the demonstrator, the average hobbiest will sharpen this blade once every 5 years! I’ve decided to put THAT particular claim through the test!
The second purchase I had a chance to work with was Micro Jig’s GRR-Ripper. The GRR-Ripper is the next level of pushblocks/sticks. I tried it the same time I tried the sawblade. Both performed admirably!
I still have a few other items to try out, but they will have to wait until next weekend!
Until then, make mine out of wood!
Beautiful cutting board I have called a 1/2 dozen people to the computer and showed it. Great Job
Thats awesome! Thanks!
I was surfing the net looking for neat kitchen stuff, and found this cutting board kind of cool. I do collect cutting boards, and over the years I have found a few. I found this web site that also has a puzzle cutting board, take a look. http://www.cuttingboardusa.com
Allen