Thread: Cutting Boards

Cool

Hope you dont mind but I came in to post a couple of boards I've just done too.
So I'll tack them on here.

The first one is a sampler of all the different woods we sawed from around a friends house. Woods are Bluegum, Lawson cypress, Manchurian walnut, NZ lacebark and Macrocarpa cypress.

The second board is just the walnut and lacebark. The lacebark shows neat rays when quartersawn.

Ian

There must be lots of cooking about to happen here!
Good work fella's

Giving them away?

DarrylF and Ianab,

the chopping boards are beautiful! the recipients will be very lucky!

cheers

RufflyRustic

Originally Posted by Cagey

Giving them away?

Yep, we're like that in our area, I've just made 9 sets of coasters (54 in all) in a similar style as Darryl, and am in the process of giving them away. Must have something to do with the 2 cubic metres of suitable long offcuts that we got just before last xmas.

Love the varying width contrasting timber across the boards - very effective

Cheers

Nice boars Darry & Ian

I see what you family getting for X-mas

Giving them away?

I see what you family getting for X-mas

True actually
Seems I spend all my spare cash on woodworking gear and never have any $$ for Xmas.. so it makes sense to me

Great looking cutting boards, too good to actually cut anything on

Darryl & Ian fantastic work from both of you. Lots of inspiration for Chrissy gifts.

Nice looking gifts. YOu are way ahead of me. I am only at the thinking about wood gifts at the moment.

Darryl,
love the mix in the colours.

Is there any issues with the different hardness of the timbers, assuming that celery top pine is similar to normal pine?

Paul

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Is there any issues with the different hardness of the timbers, assuming that celery top pine is similar to normal pine? 


To quote from the Tasmanian Timber Web site http://www.tastimber.tas.gov.au/spec...lerytop_01.asp

Celery Top is a conifer native to Tasmania. It is named for its distinctive celery-like leaves and is best known as hard and durable timber used, in the early days for railway sleepers and stair treads.

The timber is creamy white, darkening to a mellow rosy gold hue over time and exposure to sunlight. It has distinct annual rings with a pronounced latewood and, being slow grown, this feature gives it a hardness, strength, and density not expected of conifers.

Celery top is light and easy to work, it turns well and has long been employed in the traditional crafts of boat building and spindle turning. The timber is valued for its durability and it withstands exposure well. It provides a hard wearing surface for flooring and has an attractive fine-grained appearance.

Kev M

Thanks guys Got a bunch more to do before Xmas I think.

We have a couple that I made a while back from celery top pine and jarrah. They get well used, and from everything I can see the celery top wears just as well as the jarrah. Nice stuff to work with generally - though it does tear out a little at times.