Bread Board Wedding Gift

oh my!!! THis is really interesting. The design is amazing.
(and it reminds me of cherry pie)
VERY impressive.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I love the weave look you were able to accomplish on this project. Very neat!

-- Jesus is Lord!

Very interesting, nice work…

-- Sawhorse - Sulphur Springs, TX - www.sawhorseworkshop.com

Nice job, Tim. I really like the weave pattern.

-- John

The finish really pops. Great board.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Great board and the construction is interesting.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Nice design! I really like that!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Looks great, nice colors, wood and finish.

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3

I love it!!! Beautiful work…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...119 days to sanity...

Ok, so what is the secret to the weaving design? I am trying to figure out if those boards are solid and bent, cut, or what?

I looks great when finished. I love Purple Heart for its rich color and accent/contrast with other woods.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Awsome!

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

Excellent.

As for Bill’s question: I’m guessing the maple boards are joined with half lap joints.

And Miss Deb – thanks for making me hungry. LOL

-- Chelle http://artsgranddaughter.blogspot.com

Interesting – I’ll file this one away for a future ‘must-make’ project

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

Beautiful…love the wood and weave.

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

nice to inspire so many to tackle a project

-- Dan

Hard to not see the top as actually woven. Great gift. I wonder if it’ll be deemed “too good to use”?

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

nice job!

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

Beautiful design and execution. You must let us know all your secrets of how you did it. jockmike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

Nice, the basket weave pattern looks great and a good choice of contrasting woods. In this months Fine Woodworking there is a Credenza that utilizes basket weave marquetry for the drawer bottoms, a little over the top I suppose seeing as if the thing is actually used and packed full of papers you wouldn’t even see the drawer bottoms, but slick never the less. In a project or two I might be up to the challenge myself, but till then I admire the folks, yourself included, that can pull it off.

-- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

Thanks to all for the wonderful comments.

So the secret to the weave pattern-its only an illusion.
A lap joint would be a more solid design, but that is not what I chose. I first glued the thin mohagny accents to my strips of maple. Then cut the maple to the correct sizes for the weave effect and added the purple hearts squares for the”background.” I had to sand the pieces here and there to get things to look right and found that small differences in the way things lined up added to the woven look since a cloth or other fiberous weave is never perfect. Once I got things to look how I liked I added west sytems epoxy between everywhere and squeezed with clamps. Had to sand for a while. And then some more. Note the different grain directions to extra care. Fiinished with salad bowl finish. Oh yeah, rounded over the edge with 1/4 ” bit on my router. Hope that ansewers things!

I did check out this months Fine Woodworking and saw that Credenza. Seems odd to put that in the drawers but it is a nice surprise!

-- Tim Nuanes

VERY nice effect. I wonder if this could be done using curved pieces …. hmmm

-- http://nmwoodworks.com (pens & bowls, mostly)

awesome cutting board. will try one my self. good reason to buy some curly maple !!

-- ..... art for lifes sake ... danwalters@lumberjocks.com

Certainly too nice to use for cutting on !

-- Dusty56@comcast.net

I wonder if a round one with a maple border would look even more like cherry pie :) Nice work

-- Dan, San Diego, CA