More Luck than Good

Beautiful board and WHAT A DESIGN, just fantastic !

-- Gene, Majestic Eagle Woodworks, http://majesticeagleww.etsy.com/, http://www.flickr.com/photos/majesticeagle/

Great Job. Looks beautiful.

-- Adrian ..... The 11th Commandment...."Thou Shalt Not Buy A Wobble Dado"

Beautiful! The most unique I’ve seen.

-- If, in your life, you attain the means to help; you incur the responsibility to act.

Now that is cool. What a save…..

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

You should be pleased with the out come. Beautiful. The wood just talks to you. Beautiful!

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

Sometimes good things come after a bit of a break. That is one really slick cutting board.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

Don’t sell yourself short. More skills than luck if you ask me. You didn’t cut out the sap, you made a beautiful board !

-- http://www.grandprairiewoodworks.com http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6453794

It looks great. I love end grain boards. Nice pattern!

Thanks for posting it.

-- Martin, Kansas

nice job

-- Jim, Kentucky

Nope, not a waste of time. It turned out great. You’ll have to up your price for this one. Came out beautiful.

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

That is very nice, right up my alley.

-- Urban logger, http://nelsonwoodworks.biz/

Really really beautiful.
I doubt I will not cut my fingers using this beautiful cutting board.

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

man that musta been a good cup-a-joe. that is really cool. great job at incorporating wood that usually gets cut out for it’s lack of beauty and here you’ve turned it into the centerpiece of beauty. thanks for posting.

~isaac

-- "Who but a fool would discard seeminly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent engineering" -- Aldo Leopold

Well done! I would love to see pictures of the first glue up or even the board you started with. I’ve been staring at the pictures trying to imagine what you started with. I think I have it in my head, but I’m not quite sure.

-- Tom, Simsbury, CT

It was a 6” wide board. On one side it was typical dark walnut all the way across to within one inch of the other side. The last inch was white sap wood. On the other side, the sap wood was about 2.5” from the same edge. So looking at it from the end grain, it looked like a triangle on the edge because the sap wood was running at an angle through the board. I ripped about an inch off the sap wood edge so one side was all dark. This gave me an almost perfect natural 1.5” triangle when I cross cut the 1st glue up.

-- I don't make mistakes, only design changes....www.dgmwoodworks.com

Very nice! Coffee… it does the project good!

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

that is truly amazing…by any (more) luck—-do you have a photo of the original board??? that would be cool to compare…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

Fantastic departure from the standard rectangular patterns we see all the time!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Have always felt that a major part of any project is understanding what the wood selected for the project has to offer and capitalizing on it. With this project you have found the motherlode. Congrats on a beautiful piece.

-- I can so I wood but why are my learning curves always circles

Superb! I think that this is the most beautiful and
unique cutting board I`ve ever seen.
Thanks for sharing it with us.

-- ''Carry on my wayward son''

I really like your design. Turned out great.

-- www.corwyn.ca

Some people read the paper with their coffee. You read that board to perfection. Excellent work!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

That had to make you smile, nice work.

Love it! That is just fantastic. Has a bit of parquetry flare to it.

-- Doug, woodworking in Alabama

WOW! very nice.

-- Pyromedic602, free wood is always good wood

that sure is a one of a kind, great work!

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

Sometimes it’s luck, most times it’s inspiration.

Nicely done job.

-- Making scrap with zen-like precision - Woodbutchery

Fantastic arrangement of grains. Truly a striking piece of work.

-- Please visit me at http://dustynewt.com

There would be nothing wrong with using just one type of wood on a board like that. Especially when you can make it look like you have more than one type in it with a wood that has two colors like walnut. That’s what I did with my “All Ash” chess board, most people think of a chess board having two types of wood; it can be done with one.

-- It’s not so much what we know that causes the trouble, it’s what we know that’s not so.

That is sweet. Great eye.
I may like to borrow that concept.

Steve

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Fantastic design. I’m glad that you noticed the wood talking to you on this one. Good read and great implementation.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Now this is the ultimate in design and foresight . I hope that the Cherry will stay light enough to always contrast so nicely with the Walnut . Happy Holidays and thank you for posting this gem : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

I still don’t understand how you did it. But I like it.

I don’t like waste and would like to throw less sapwood in the slab pile when milling walnut. (It’s harder to sell boards that have sapwood on them.) You’ve captured an idea that’s been rolling around in my head about celebrating the contrast. I’ve seen a few others who executed similar to what I imagined. But I never seen or imagined anything like what you’ve done. Good job.

-- Wonderful new things are coming! - God

AMAZING board. sorry for noticing it just now….

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...