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What do you do when you have amassed various small pieces of beautiful exotic hardwoods too small for any furniture project? You build a one of a kind seriously intricate end grain cutting board.

After a full year of building numerous large projects I had again amassed a treasure trove of beautifuly figured exotic hardwoods. I don't normally build cutting boards but when my treasure box begins to overflow I like to create what I call global cutting boards. As you can see from the pictures, the board is constructed of hundreds of pieces of multiple species of hardwoods. I call this a global cutting board because different species of wood used in its construction come from 3 different continents. Woods used include:

Zebrawood
Bubinga
Purple Heart
Padauk
Figured Black Walnut
Quilted Maple
Koa
Figured Cherry
Quartersawn Wenge
Quartersawn Sapele
African Mahogany
Genuine Mahogany
Sipo Mahogany
Birdseye Maple
Ambrosia Maple

The board measures approximately 20" long x 13.5" wide x 1 3/4" thick and features side lifting grooves to allow for easy moment around the kitchen.

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WOW!!!!!
That's a lot of pieces. I love it.

Bob.
 

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great job, can I ask what glue you used? some of those are hard to glue
 

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great job, can I ask what glue you used? some of those are hard to glue

- Mikesawdust
Titebond II - Luckily, I have actually never had a problem gluing any of these woods. I send the pieces through my drum sander with 120 grit sand paper prior to gluing so they all have somewhat of an abraded surface, which I think helps.
 

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Love the pattern, great work!
 

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Great use of scraps.
 

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Did the same thing a couple of years ago. My friends and family loved getting them as gifts because each one was so unique. It does take a lot of time putting all those pieces together and keeping things squared up.
On some smaller (cheese) boards I made them 2" thick and then band sawed them in half for two 1" thick boards. Saved a lot of glue up time over making one at a time.
 

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Man o' man, I know how much work these are and yours turned out with an amazing effect!
Well done brother!
 

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Looks like a lot of work that came together perfectly : )
 

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How long does it take to glue that many pieces together to make a cutting board? It is beautiful.
 

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Would love to replicate, can you share the project basics, thanks Dave, NC
 
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