Big end grain cutting board

[Crazyraceguy]

First in the home shop. This one was commissioned, buy a guy who is dabbling in amateur butchering.
It is completely glued up and flattened. Now it gets a juice groove and collection well. I got the location nailed down today.
I'm also working on a new hand-hold for the ends. It will probably be a variation of my finger dimple idea.
I have been accused of that being a signature thing? That was never the intent, but ok.
It's a monster, 18" x 24" x 2 3/4" thick.

 

[rvieceli]

Very nicely done, CRG

Ron

 

[luvmytoolz]

Really nice work CRG! That'll look fantastic when it's oiled!

Be fairly weighty lifting that with finger grips though?

 

[Crazyraceguy]

Really nice work CRG! That'll look fantastic when it's oiled!

Be fairly weighty lifting that with finger grips though?

Thank you.
Yeah, it's quite a chunk. That's why I am working on a new hand-hold with more of a pocket, so your fingers can curl up under, rather than just clearance, to get them in there.

 

[waho6o9]

Beautiful cutting board. Please post pics of the final product, Thanks

 

[rvieceli]

@Crazyraceguy i have been using these on lamp bases for a while. If you are making that one sided. They would be a good choice for feet rubber about 1/2 inch tall. Non slip.

Use a wood screw and washer to attach.

Ron

 

[smorgasbord]

I went to make a cutting board for myself, but with items like these at $82, it just didn't seem cost effective:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBZLHPRB?th=1

Or, go thick here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS1LRBB2

 

[Crazyraceguy]

Yes, @rvieceli it is going to be one sided. It's going to need something a bit more serious than the usual grooves in the sides, for handles. I'm tossing around a couple of designs for them.
How big are those feet? I have some, that I use for cutting boards, but they are probable too small for this thing?

@waho6o9 I sure will. Here a 2 more, with today's progress. It still needs some refinement, but it's mostly there.

Grips tomorrow

 

[rvieceli]

Those feet are 1 inch in diameter and 1/2 high but McMaster has ones that go up to 2 1/2 inches in diameter and 1 inch high.

The advantage of raising the base off a surface makes it easier to grab. Just grab a router and rout a shallower recess on opposite sides.

Ron

 

[Packard]

It looks great.

But the most impressive endgrain butcher block I’ve ever seen was about 18” thick and about 24” x 24”. It had seen a lot of use as the center was worn down about an inch or an inch and a half. I believe it was retired from a butcher shop. Seen in a restored older home in upstate New York.

It was fashioned into a table height piece with legs, which, from the look of it, was original.

 

[Crazyraceguy]

It looks great.

But the most impressive endgrain butcher block I’ve ever seen was about 18” thick and about 24” x 24”. It had seen a lot of use as the center was worn down about an inch or an inch and a half. I believe it was retired from a butcher shop. Seen in a restored older home in upstate New York.

It was fashioned into a table height piece with legs, which, from the look of it, was original.

Yeah, that's the real definition of "butcher block" rather than how many use the term today.
I have even heard it applied to an edge-glued lamination, like lockeroom benches.
I have only done one side so far, but this is what I came up with for the handles.
It goes in further than the one with the individual loops, but kind of does a call-back, with the grippy edge. It's essentially half-circle ridges.

Ron that sounds more proportionate than the ones I already have. much more