Thread: Very woody Christmas presents

Then I made this one for my mother, purely because I wanted to try out something I saw on Youtube. It's supposed to be made from Maple & Purpleheart but the appropriate sized piece of Purpleheart was $80 so I settled for Maple & Jarrah.

It has 4 adjustable levelling feet & finished in about a thousand coats of woodwipe.

They all look very good.

Great work
Greg

They look really good, well done

Robert

You stole the show in my book MM. Nice.

Wow, nice !!! Well done MM. I likes em. English Oak has some spectacular grain, and is pretty hard too.

Really like the one for your Mum. The different edge pattern, (block pattern) is great. She will be impressed.

By the way, what glue do you use for your boards? Your joins are seemless.

Must make a few myself one day with whats in the scrap basket.

Cheers
Pops

Very nice, there will be some very happy people

thanks for the kind words, glue used is Titebond II (thanks for the tip Wongo) and as long as your stock is well dressed you should get clean glue lines.

Thanks MM.

Cheers
Pops

Wow I am impressed MM. The English Oak and Tassie Myrtle are a perfect match. The colour of myrtle is so beautiful and of course the English Oak end grain. I do like it very much. It makes me feel great just looking at it. The one for your mum is very nice too.

End grain cutting boards are a bit harder and take longer to make. You’ve done really well there. If you don’t mind me putting a price tag on it. I reckon they are at least $100 to $150 each and nnd that is only a woody's mates rate. You can easily double that in the shop. No I am not talking about David Jones, they aren't good enough for this sort of stuff.

Lucky family you have there mate.

Wongo's rating:

Great idea for prezies and very nicely done.

But here's a little thought. Don't put feet on them or handles then they can be used double sided. Twice the value and and not only that but you can use one side for cutting onion/garlic/chillies etc the other side for making sandwiches, buttering the toast etc and you don't get onion and garlic flavors permeating the toast and marmalade or the Boston bun, etc. Nothing worse.

Cheers - Neil

Originally Posted by ubeaut

Don't put feet on them or handles then they can be used double sided.

Of course I totally agree with uncle Neil.

However, I think the handles are essential. Without the handles it is very hard to turn the board over. Your Jarrah board looks pretty heavy and a bit of rebate on the edges makes it easier to lift it up and flip it over.

What you can do MM is to cut the handles smaller and less noticeable. Do remember to one on top side and the other one on the bottom side. Otherwise you won’t be able to flip it back.

top job MM ....I agree with Wongo....the Myrtle and Oak are a great match

cheers
BD

Thanks fellas - that's a very flattering estimate there Wongo, if anyone else thought they were worth that much I'd buy me a drum sander and go into business...

I thought about making them double sided but I just couldn't sand any more, top is 320 grit bottom is 120. I normally set the handles in a little lower than that but I went silly this time. For double sided I would use stainless handles, the feet are there purely because they are adjustable to level my bad sanding job out.
Because I am using a Triton I get so much variation in each cut that when assembled the boards are all over the place and need lots of sanding. I'm saving up for a TSC10HB but it's a long way off yet...