Cutting board - a journey and a tutorial #2: Stock selection & preparation, various musings and commentary, lots of pictures.
Now, into the meat of the tutorial after the musings in part the first… Fellow LJ’s are invited to chime in with comments! (I’ll also be forwarding this outside of LJ, so please forgive the more obvious bits of explanation.) One of the reasons for the delay in getting the new cutting board going (on top of not being able to work in the shop) was just being too dang busy to get over the Seattle and find the wood. Two weekends ago, I was finally able to get over there and found two nice pieces of turning stock at Woodcraft for the decorative parts and happily Crosscut Hardwood had some nice hard maple on sale…It’s always a bit sad for me to look at a pris...
