The wife requested a huge cutting board. This is 18” x 25” x 1.38” thick. All end grain on the cutting surface. Walnut and maple with one coat of mineral oil.
Finished just in a nick of time.
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I guess I should say something about the role the Shopsmith played in this project. After jointing and planing the stock (non-Shosmith) it was virtually all Shopsmith from there. The Shopsmith band saw with a Shopsmith edition Kreg Fence ripped the maple to 1.5" wide strips. Three 24" Shopsmith double bar clamps clamped the blank up into a zebra pattern. Then the zebra pattern blank was cross cut (again Shopsmith band saw/Shopsmith Kreg fence) into 1.38" strips. Those strips are stood up to expose the end grain and alternate strips flipped to get the checkerboard.
Because the length (25") was too much to do in one fell swoop with the Shopsmith bar clamps, I glued them up in two checkerboards and then, after using the Shopsmith conical disc sander to true up the edges, glued the two boards together to get the 25" length using regular pipe clamps.
Random orbit (Festool) sander on the top to sand out imperfections.
End grain cutting boards use a lot of wood, obviously.
Last edited by algale on Fri Dec 24, 2021 5:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Gale's Law: The bigger the woodworking project, the less the mistakes show in any photo taken far enough away to show the entire project!
It is beautiful, but more work than I would attempt. I made a large one some years back, but I was too lazy to make something as nice as yours. I simply used maple boards.
That is a board to be proud of.
Model 10ER (1952), s/n: 72883 (MickyD restored in 2009/10) / Variable Speed Changer / A-34 Jigsaw / Jointer-Shaper Fence Mark 5 Model 500 (1955), s/n: 309828 (MickyD restored in 2008/09) / Magna Jigsaw Model 610, s/n 65001 / Yuba 11” Bandsaw Model 630, s/n 39807 / Magna Jointer Model 620, s/n 17792 (restored in 2021) / Magna 6” Belt Sander Model 640, s/n 13742 (to be restored) Professional Planer Model M5082, s/n 003918 DC3300 Dust Collector (circa 1998)
BuckeyeDennis wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 12:10 pm
It looks geat, Al! I need one like that for carving Christmas dinner tonight — can you deliver that quickly? Oh yes, and with a juice groove, please.
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Gale's Law: The bigger the woodworking project, the less the mistakes show in any photo taken far enough away to show the entire project!
Beautiful Cutting Board to which my wife agrees too. She said you must love your wife a lot to put all that work into it.
Russ
Mark V completely upgraded to Mark 7
Mark V 520
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Model 10ER S/N R64000 first one I restored on bench w/ metal ends & retractable casters.
Has Speed Changer, 4E Jointer, Jig Saw with lamp, a complete set of original accessories & much more.
Model 10E's S/N's 1076 & 1077 oldest ones I have restored. Mark 2 S/N 85959 restored. Others to be restored.
chapmanruss wrote: ↑Sun Dec 26, 2021 1:38 pm
Beautiful Cutting Board to which my wife agrees too. She said you must love your wife a lot to put all that work into it.
Thee are fortunate to have a better half that understands the amount of effort and skill required to make that cutting board.
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