Original Idea for Christmas

I forgot to mention that I brought in one of the cutting boards to our local woodworkers guild meeting and they liked it enough that they want me to do a presentation on how to make them for our January meeting.

Any tricks of the trade out there that I should tell them about?

-- Kevin, Wichita, Kansas

Jeepers, that is a lot of work. Very nice, I like your wood/color selection.

As I am sure you are aware, I would recommend to practice the glue up. It all has to go tegether at once.

I used a sliding crosscut table to cut my squares. I clamped a stop block a bit to long, and then kept adding a masking tape shim until the squares were the exact length. I cut both rip and crosscut of the squares this way, always keeping the same corner of the square at the stop block. I was really fun once this was set up.

Steve

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LOL. Ya’ made me snort when I saw the title. Nice boards, I have not made any in this style yet, I like them , but I thought they would take too much time ( I wanted to sell them, not give them away). Someday when I can take a breather from trying to scratch out a living I plan on trying my hand at some like these. I’m sure the were well recieved by your gift list.

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Nicely done, I’m sure they are worth the time you put in.

Steve,

I didn’t have a crosscut sled until this project. I do now. That is the only way to do it as far as I am concerned.

-- Kevin, Wichita, Kansas

Nice cutting boards.
I count 16 clamps on the glue up picture , nice to have so many clamps.
I used only 5 on my board : http://lumberjocks.com/projects/12177
and 3 of them were borrowed.

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Three Bessey clamps on bottom and then a boat load of cheap Harbor Freight clamps. I’ve found that the 6” and 12” can apply decent clamping pressure. We tried to make it look like a clamping nightmare. Makes it easier to justify more clamp purchases to the “boss”.

-- Kevin, Wichita, Kansas

Nice job Kevin…they look great. I hope your presentation goes well.

Thanks for posting them.

-- Martin, Kansas

OK if my wife see’s this I am going to hurt you… just kidding this is nice

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