Christmas scraps
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Thanks [member=33086]RobNJ[/member] . Just glue joints. The Bessey REVO clamps keep them relatively flat during the glue up, and then I knock down the remaining ridges with my Dewalt portable planer. On one of them, though, I did just use the Rotex 150 with 80 grit paper to get everything flat, since the first pass through the planer had produced some tear out.
I'm gluing up right now an end grain cutting board, and if that requires any serious final flattening I will use the 2200 with a large bit and a planing sled to finish it off.
I'm gluing up right now an end grain cutting board, and if that requires any serious final flattening I will use the 2200 with a large bit and a planing sled to finish it off.
RobNJ said:
Those really look great.
I'm doing the same thing with my piles of scraps. I am also doing cheese boards and lazy susans as well. Because my scraps are so many different thicknesses and widths, i finally broke down and gave myself a christmas present of a DW7480 portable saw. I was spending too much tie trying to set up my MFT rail to make all of the cuts i needed to do for matching strips together.
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I'm doing the same thing with my piles of scraps. I am also doing cheese boards and lazy susans as well. Because my scraps are so many different thicknesses and widths, i finally broke down and gave myself a christmas present of a DW7480 portable saw. I was spending too much tie trying to set up my MFT rail to make all of the cuts i needed to do for matching strips together.
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Much appreciated. Yeah, I don't think I would have been able to pull it off before getting the Jessem stock guides for my TS, which hold things really tight to the fence and virtually eliminate blade marks. I suppose I could have managed some of the cuts with the rail and track saw, but once the piece gets narrower than the rail it would have become pretty hairy, even with some sort of additional supports.
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Edward A Reno III said:
Thanks for the detail. I'm going to make a few end grain ones soon and was wondering if it was worth it to build the router sled.
I've heard some very heated conversations about putting end grain cutting boards through the planer!!
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Wuffles said:
I always appreciate a good hole!
Very under-rated they are...
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Additional family members showing up to Christmas, so banged out a couple more.
Checkerboard is maple and Sapele, other one is (a pretty mottled) Walnut, Cherry and my last scrap of Padauk:
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Hi,
I started making cutting boards this Xmas as well, also to use up scraps. My wife liked what I was doing, so she asked to standardize what I was doing, so we could give them as gifts.
This is what I came up with:
It's maple & purple heart. I use a template from Wooodcrafters for the size & handle, but maybe I can try the finger hole. I like that idea.
I finished it with something called "Bee Keepers Gold." It's made for salad bowls & cutting boards. Food safe mineral oil & bees wax.
As for Festool. I used 8mm x 50mm Dominos and my Domino 500. I used the dominos for alignment purposes, and to prevent bowing during glue-up. Maybe I didn't NEED to, but I wanted to. I also used my ETS-125 and RO-125 sanders, and Festool abrasives.
Later,
edg
I started making cutting boards this Xmas as well, also to use up scraps. My wife liked what I was doing, so she asked to standardize what I was doing, so we could give them as gifts.
This is what I came up with:
It's maple & purple heart. I use a template from Wooodcrafters for the size & handle, but maybe I can try the finger hole. I like that idea.
I finished it with something called "Bee Keepers Gold." It's made for salad bowls & cutting boards. Food safe mineral oil & bees wax.
As for Festool. I used 8mm x 50mm Dominos and my Domino 500. I used the dominos for alignment purposes, and to prevent bowing during glue-up. Maybe I didn't NEED to, but I wanted to. I also used my ETS-125 and RO-125 sanders, and Festool abrasives.
Later,
edg
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[member=30413]mike_aa[/member] Howards feed and wax. I used it previously to restore my own large maple cutting board that's probably as old as I am. You just have to wait a few days to cut anything wet on it, since the orange oil can add a slight flavor!
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[member=37411]Edward A Reno III[/member]
Just a friendly heads-up, Howards says their Feed-N-Wax is not intended for food prep surfaces. I don't know exactly what that means but maybe a quick Christmas call to them may clear up the issue. Don't want the relatives sick for the holidays. [scared]
http://www.howardproducts.com/resources/literature/Online_Brochure.pdf
Just a friendly heads-up, Howards says their Feed-N-Wax is not intended for food prep surfaces. I don't know exactly what that means but maybe a quick Christmas call to them may clear up the issue. Don't want the relatives sick for the holidays. [scared]
http://www.howardproducts.com/resources/literature/Online_Brochure.pdf
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