Unique cutting boards- inspired by Scott Lewis

[Dick Mahany]

I watched an excellent video by Scott Lewis on making some very unique cutting boards and just had to give it a try.  They are great fun to make, but a bit un-nerving as they get cut and re-glued several times in the process.  Glue clamp ups are especially exciting.  No Festools were harmed during the making of these boards.  [wink]

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The Fine Woodworking video by Scott is here

 

[deepcreek]

Wowza!  Great job!

 

[Mario Turcot]

Fantastic art work  [eek]

The second one is made of purpleheart and redheart?

 

[Dick Mahany]

Fantastic art work  [eek]

The second one is made of purpleheart and redheart?

Mario, the second one was made of purple heart and black dyed veneer strips.  It gets a little tricky measuring for the laminations because their combined thicknesses must add up to be exactly the same as the wasted  (routed) curve width.  Still though, great fun.

 

[dltflt]

Nice job.

 

[Cheese]

VERY nice stuff [thumbs up] [thumbs up]

There are a lot of nice elements that set these apart from a traditional design. It appears that all 4 edges have a large radius to produce a pincushion form.
The large radius round over on all 4 edges.
The finger grooves on the 2 ends.
The ribbons down the middle.

I think this would be easy work for a Shaper.

Just curious what cutting board 1 looked like?

 

[Dick Mahany]

VERY nice stuff [thumbs up] [thumbs up]

I think this would be easy work for a Shaper.

Just curious what cutting board 1 looked like?

Cheese, A shaper sure would have been nice, but my trusty router table had to suffice for these.  As far as what cutting board 1 looked like, it never made it successfully out of the glue up due to a miscalculation on laminate stack thickness that left slight gaps in places along the curves.  I simply re-routed and re-cut the laminate stack out and adjusted as needed.  That is why it looks so much like no. 3  [embarassed]

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[ear3]

Those videos truly are amazing and inspiring.  Congratulations on a faithful recreation/adaptation!

I watched an excellent video by Scott Lewis on making some very unique cutting boards and just had to give it a try.  They are great fun to make, but a bit un-nerving as they get cut and re-glued several times in the process.  Glue clamp ups are especially exciting.  No Festools were harmed during the making of these boards.  [wink]

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The Fine Woodworking video by Scott is here

 

[nclemmons]

Beautiful work!  I have a Shaper.  This would be relatively easy to make with it!

Might have to try it out.

Thanks for sharing and getting us inspired!

 

[NL-mikkla]

wow, super!
I have never seen a cutting board like that

 

[mattbyington]

Looks amazing!!! Nice job!!

Matt