Three Endgrain Boards

looks nice. how come one of the boards has that one red colored piece in it?

That’s the end of a board, literallly.. cherry which had seen a bit more sunlight than the rest, and it just looks a bit darker… in normal light it isn’t that much darker than the rest of the board .

The woods involved by the way are Lyptus, Cherry and Maple.

-- Ned - 2B1ASK1 http://nedswoodshop.blogspot.com

looking good ned !

did your planer knives survive this experience ?? or did you flatten them with a handplane ??!? :0)

-- what are you building today

oh they’re due for a flip after the next board or two still in the works.

-- Ned - 2B1ASK1 http://nedswoodshop.blogspot.com

Nice cutting board!

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Very nice cutting boards. I was your designs here and borrowed it to make one myself. I have a quick question. From the posts above, it seems your planed the boards after your flipped the pieces to expose the end grain. Is that true? I was tempted to send mine through my power planer but was scared to do it for fear it would damage the board or the knives. Does it work o.k.?
Duane

-- --It's not how long you live, but how you live that makes it a life.--

I know I have had mixed luck in running end-grain boards through the planer. I have had some come out fine, but I have also busted one or two into smithereens when passing in thru the planer. That’s with taking less than 1/64th per pass, too!

-- Greg, Burnt Hills NY

These are fun to make, and very durable, nice job on weaving the grain together. This is another pro for a spiral head planner. I just shove it through with out a second thought!

-- There's many a slip betwixt a cup and a lip.--Scott

Thanks for the feedback. Do you think it is a wood species thing too? I made my cutting board from hard maple and cherry. I think the cherry is probably soft enough to plane the end grain but I was worried about the maple. I guess I could just try it and see what happens OR convince the wife I need to buy a new spiral headed planer. How do you think that one will go????

-- --It's not how long you live, but how you live that makes it a life.--

Duane, yes these are end-grain boards. these were the second ‘wave’ of board i’ve made, and so far, no damage to the planer blades. I do find that gluing a board to both ends long-grain helps eiliminate the chip-out that can happen with an end grain planing session.

Greg, I’ve got two sets of partial boards, which didn’t survive the planer, I think it was just the glue joint that failed. one of these days I’ll glue them back together and finsh the boards.

Scott, Well.. my basic dewalt lunchbox does a pretty good job for the price. SPiral is on my wishlist however.

Duane, again…
Not species related, simply end grain related. Those are rock maple and lyptus and cherry. all pretty hefty on the hardness scale.

-- Ned - 2B1ASK1 http://nedswoodshop.blogspot.com