End Grain Cutting Boards

Greg,

These are beautiful! I’ll bet they do sell well. Thanks for sharing your creations.

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

Wow, really nice cutting board Greg.

-- Andy Stark

Very nice Greg. How much do you get for these?

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

Very cool boards! Is it tough to keep everything aligned when doing the final glue-ups? I love the look of these.

-- Robb

Thank you for the comments. You need to use some care when glueing up. The larger board can be glued in sections to make it easier. I usually just put a good amount of glue on, and glue all at one time. I flatten one side with 80 grit on a belt sander, and then run them through a wide belt sander. For the longest time a used a belt sander on both sides, and then a six inch orbital disc sander to about 150 grit. Be sure to take your time sanding with the belt sander. Make sure you flatten to the lowest point. If you don’t you’ll in up with some pits in the top of your board. Going to 150 grit leave a glass like finish on the end grain of the board.

-- Greg Mitchell--Lowell, AR--gdamitchell@sbcglobal.net

very nice work, Greg!

Looks like you have been busy. Good work!

-- Woodbutcher extraordinaire

Great Job Greg.

I just received an e-mail from awlfreeplans.com and they are suppose to be having the Wood Whisperer plans on his web site.

He does have Marc’s version of this cutting board there. I just posted a blog called Free Woodworking Plans, that has a link to the site.

The Wood magazine version has more and different segements.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

good looking boards Greg!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Greg,

Do you use a hand held belt sander to make these, or do you have one of those large stationary belt sanders that are more like a thickness planer?

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

awesome – and congrats on the sales

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Tom I use both. I flat one side with a hand held belt sander, and then finish up with a wide belt sander. I started out making them with the hand held belt sander.

-- Greg Mitchell--Lowell, AR--gdamitchell@sbcglobal.net

Very nice, My scrap pile is overwhelming and I should consider something like this

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

Nice boards Greg, Nice work, I hope you fetched a nice price for them.
I started one a month ago, I gotta finish it!

-- Normite Lou

They really caught my eye. Delightful!

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems

I missed these, and just ran across them on shuffle. Beautiful! How long does it take you to make one of these?

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

These are great work! This is a project I never considered doing, but LJ’s are doing such incredible work with them I might have to take a stab at it. Really nice work!

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

Beautiful work.

-- Jesus is Lord!

these look great : ) Check out my long grain boards when you get a chance : )

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