End grain cutting board ad nauseum

[specialist]

I know that just lately, there has been many of these posted, so I thought that I would jump on the band wagon and do one for my self. Nothing special, just one of radiata pine.
It's 500 x 280 x 40 thick.

Robert

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[Robson Valley]

Well! This is a "first." = Somebody actually took advantage of end grain for the design. How peculiar! I'd like that in my kitchen.

[Uncle Al]

That looks so much better than the usual high contrast cutting boards.
I have made a note not to show this to my daughter

Alan...

[specialist]

Well! This is a "first." = Somebody actually took advantage of end grain for the design. How peculiar! I'd like that in my kitchen.

I have to admit that there was no plan, I just alternated every second piece and that's how it ended up. When I do another one, I will make sure that I plan it a little better.

[specialist]

That looks so much better than the usual high contrast cutting boards.
I have made a note not to show this to my daughter

Alan...

All I really wanted to do was try one for ourselves, as the long grain board that I had made warped uncontrollably and we needed a new one.

[Robson Valley]

My brother commissioned a big, end-grain cutting board which sits at countertop height on its own stand. The thing is a piece of modern art. He was chopping spare ribs on it with a camp hatchet when I arrived!
As soon as I saw yours, I understood what I didn't like about my brother's board = too busy with all sorts of little sticks (still, interesting woods).

Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas-fir, possibly known to you as Oregon) is a conifer with reasonable hardness and a very abrupt finish to each growth ring, a little tighter and harder than Pinus radiata. I suggest you give it some passing consideration.

[artme]

Very artistic old mate!!

I love end grain and I've often wondered why so little advantage is taken of it.