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This is my first cutting board. After looking at everyone else’s I had to join the club.
It is hard maple and walnut, finish is General Finish salad bowl. I was surprised at how expensive these are to make, fortunately I had salvaged some lengths of walnut from a cabinet shop that makes alot of conference tables so I got some long skinny lengths that were odd shaped that I was able to mill up.
Lesson learned; In one of the posts on Lumberjocks someone mentioned running them through the planer after glue up. Not having much experience with my Ridgid planer I tried this out. DON’T DO THIS!!! The damn thing kicked back and shot out like a rocket. If I had been standing behind it I would have been seriously injured or maybe even killed. Needless to say it scared the crap out of me.
The good news is I and the planer are ok.
Suprisingly the glue ups held up to the impact but there was a huge snipe across the surface. I had to resaw about 3/16” off on my bandsaw (Rikon 14”) then I smoothed the surfaces with a hand held belt sander.
I had planned to do a blood groove and some handle notches but after the planer incident I decided to finish it without.
This will not be my last, I’m working on a new pattern for another one.
-- The only thing wrong with instant gratification is that it's not fast enough.
9 comments so far
Max
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posted 43 days ago
The board turned out great. Nice tight joints and great finish.
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
a1Jim
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posted 43 days ago
that’s a great board
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon
woodworm
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posted 43 days ago
Very nicely built & finished board.
-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.
Lloyd Davies
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posted 43 days ago
thanks for the info on the kickback. i have done a few of these and sanded them but i was thinking of putting the next one through a planer.
-- Northern California http://www.lloydus.com
Broda
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posted 43 days ago
If your going to put endgrain through the planner, don’t. Or if you really have to, only take off a bee’s d@#k otherwise, well you already know
-- BRODY. NSW AUSTRALIA -arguments with turnings are rarely productive-
degoose
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posted 42 days ago
Drum sander is the go with these! Please keep well away from the planer with endgrain even if you have read that some very lucky jocks have done it….DON”T
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BTW nice job.. try the alternating pattern next.
-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au
huff
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posted 42 days ago
Very nice. Glad you where OK with the planer, It’s a lesson you’ll never forget and since you, the planer and your project survived, all is well.
-- John @ Myrtle Beach
eddy
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posted 42 days ago
i too learned this lesson as you did all my boards are sanded with a hand held belt sander only was to go till
you can belly up and get a brum sander
board looks great
Kugel
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posted 6 days ago
I have made 10+ endgrain cutting boards and have run them through my planer very successfully with no problems. I have a Powermatic with a helical cutter head and when I plane the endgrain I take no more than 1/32” off at one time, this is key. It takes quite a while but its does a better job and is much easier than sanding with a hand held. I suspect you had a problem because you tried to take off too much material at once.
-- J. KUGEL Kirkland, WA