| Blog series by Derek Lyons | updated 108 days ago | 2 parts | 768 reads | 1 comment total |
Part 1: Introduction.
I set out this spring to make a cutting a cutting board as a wedding present for my niece, but wasn’t able to finish it in time because of a shop accident [LJ blog link]. After the bandages came off I went back to work on it but I’ve never really been happy with it and eventually stopped work altogether. But, even though the first piece has too many mistakes in it to go out the door with my name on it, a promise is a promise. So, as I’ll talk more about in the next e...
Part 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 an...
















