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6th August 2012, 11:53 AM #1
Butchers block, What Timber to use.
Guys just getting an early start for Xmas but I want to make some butchers blocks and cutting boards for family and friends I am looking to do chequered pattens end grain up.
What would be the best to use and and good availability around Brisbane as well.
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6th August 2012, 02:28 PM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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Hi
I made some as Christmas presents a couple of years back and made them out of Jarrah and Rock Maple.
If I did them again, not sure what timber I would use actually as I would like to do something different.
I finished them with parrifin oil (mineral oil) that I bought at my local chemist.
I should have re-coated them but I haven't.
This thread might encourage me to do so )
Cheers
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6th August 2012, 07:58 PM #3Novice
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have also wondered about this. im guessing a dense/ tight grained timber timber would be better?
or can soft woods be used?
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11th August 2012, 01:51 PM #4
There are a couple of primary issues with tmber for butcher's blocks. One is suitability and the other is availability.
Some of the denser timbers while on the face of it would appear suitable are too abrasive on cutting edges and blunt knives and chopping tools. Ironbark would be a good example of this.
Traditionally, rough barked apple is a preferred species for butcher's blocks, but there the issue is availability as it is not a commercial species.
I have listed in one book, Forest Red Gum and Tallowwood as suitable timbers. Again these timbers are not neccessarily immediately available from your local hardware store or timber merchant. If you have difficulty sourcing them one suggestion is to post a thread on the timber milling forum as many of the portable millers have access to this material from time to time.
The other option is to use anything that seems moderately tough and be prepared to sharpen more often. A further word of caution is that some hardwoods exude a stain (tanins) when wet so some preliminary testing might be adviseable.
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PaulBushmiller;
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19th August 2012, 04:24 PM #5
The blocks in our butchers shop were jarrah. We scraped them each night and dusted with flour.
I was told that jarrah has a natural bactericide and was preferable to the newer poly sheets the health dept forced us to use later in my career."Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem"
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19th August 2012, 07:39 PM #6SENIOR MEMBER
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According to my brother the big butcher blocks where he worked in a country butchershop in Central Queensland were bloodwood.
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23rd August 2012, 09:15 PM #7Senior Member
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I just finished a block for my wife, I'm halfway through making a stand for it because its so heavy, but I used jarrah and American beech.
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31st August 2012, 09:34 AM #8Novice
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Best source for these timbers in QLD
I am looking at the Kennedy's website - do they look after small buyers like us woodies?
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2nd September 2012, 04:01 PM #9GOLD MEMBER
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QLD KAURI, the rolls royce of butchers blocks.
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2nd September 2012, 06:19 PM #10
My brother-in-law makes his butcher blocks from Apple which grows extensively here in the New England Tablelands. He just cuts a log about 800mm round and about 900 high and just plonks it on the floor of his butcher shop. It grows all over the place on his property where I live.
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