Old Growth Cypress & Walnut cutting board

Very nice board

-- Glenn, New Mexico

If you call the mis-matched squares art, they look kinda cool. It gives a neat look to the board.

Looks great. I love the design with the contrasting woods. Very well done.

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I love the way you matched the end grain into squares

-- Fred, Springfield, Ma

Nice contrasting wood and the design is just as good. Good job

-- Bob K. East Northport, NY

Looks great, I thought the offset pieces were a design choice, until your confession!

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Very nice board!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Sweet looking. If I were you, I would keep the offset, it is different from any of the others. Makes a nice statement along with the contrasting woods.

Thanks for posting

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Wow, this thing is so cool! I really like the randomness of the lines. It creates sort of an optical illusion. That Cypress is beautiful.

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A beautiful creation.

You could apply wooden buttons on the bottom, to eliminate the wobble.

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There is never too many cutting board projects. Outstanding wood grain/pattern. Great work!

-- Bob in Western Michigan -- Have you hugged your tools today?

Great job I saved your pictures in my cutting board file.

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the only reason I put the offset there in the first place is because I was thinking if might add some strength to the board joints. I’m going to keep experimenting with this style and see where it takes me.

I really do appreciate all ya’lls input and especially the compliments, of course.

Dick, thanks for the suggestion about wooden buttons. I might just do that, although originally I wanted both sides of the board to be used, but I guess you can’t always get what you want.

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far too nice to use this is a posh piece to show of when the Donald trump’s family come to tea.you must have some old pallet scraps to actually cut on ha ha seriously my widfe loves this and so do I

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This is a real beautiful board and before reading your story , I thought that the lines were intentional as well . I would be proud to admit that I made this board !!!! : )

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This is a genius cutting board. In Japan they call cypress for “hinoki” and it is highly regarded for cutting boards as it is said to be highly resistant to rot and water damage and it is self healing and closes the cuts of the knife and the wood has natural anti bacterial properties. The knives, which the Japanese seem to be very serious about, retain there edge better on a hinoki board. Which is important, since Japanese kitchen knives are made of special hard steel and are extremely sharp compared to western style knives. People say, that with a honoki board they need to sharpen their knives much less often. The softness of the wood allows the knife to go a slight litte bit into the board which improves the cut. Some of those abilities are also found in end grain cutting boards and your combination of the two is really interesting :)

That board would be the perfect companion to a Japanese made santoku knife in VG10 steel. They start at about $100 :)

If it was my board I would, apart from being awfully pleased with it, not use a bread knife on it.

Great job I must say. Happy cutting :)

john, thanks for the history. i use a santoku by j.a. henckels on it almost exclusively, it is not of the $100 variety but it does retain it’s edge remarkably well. the board i built my wife out of this stuff is great, it not only washes well it does indeed “heal” from it’s cut marks and while being a semi-soft wood it has proven to be very durable. i love cutting on it and have ceased using the maple board at all.

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great board

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

that board is awesome. Until i read your post i thought you had offset everything on purpose. The offset along with the alignment of the grain pattern looks incrediable

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Thats a great looking board. nice job on the creation.

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