From Mesquite Slab to cutting board

i almost missed the last paragraph. i was having trouble reading through the tears. the boards came out nicely.

so, we still have a chance of making cutting boards out of those? sweeeet…. ;o)

nice cutting boards!

Impressive the number of boards you were popping out

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Lets see, what those cutting boards really need is a lot of mesquite smoked brisket. You may think that you can hide by not listing your location but mess with those boards and the LJ patrol will find you.

-- RTB. stray animals are just looking for love

Hey how about cutting them up to make pens ….all kidding aside your cutting boards look great !
Where do you live ? shipping might be to expensive to CA

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Thanks, I live in Tucson, AZ. Well, I was also thinking of grinding them into chips and selling them to Kingsford for their “Mesquite Charcoal”. There are some more really beautiful slabs that I have milled but these are the only photos I have right now. I wish I had a 24” planer to take them down with. All in time…Right now I just jack my car up, put chains on the tires and put them under the rear tire to smooth them out. It’s all about creativity.

Wow, I want those. Incredible.

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Don’t you dare grind them up. I see a few nice tables or benches coming from those.

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Cuttin’ boards look great! I wish I lived closer to Tucson. I would have to make a road trip to get a couple of slabs.

-- Paul, North Dakota, USAF Ret.

Dozer, if you weren’t so far away I would love to get a couple, but the shipping to Indiana would be a little expensive I think.

-- We are the people our parents warned us about.

you may be in luck Indiana. I’m driving to Chicago and then to Cleveland on December 17th. Does that help? I’d be willing to tote a couple up there as long as they fit in the back of my Jeep.

Dozer
When are you coming to Florida?

;-P

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Cleveland, that’s a long haul. What be the chances of getting one of those cutting boards made. Like the long strips over the checkerboard pattern. Is maple the other wood ?

Very Funny Dozer you had me saying aaaharge nutts, but nice boards any how

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I am making 15 of those cutting boards as Christmas presents, what’s one more? Do you want end grain 8/4×8/4 or make it easy on me and do the 5/4×5/4? Yes the other wood is maple. There is an abundance of maple trees in Arizona that they are paying me to cut down. Just kidding. I bought the maple. It was painful to own a sawmill and have to buy lumber, but I needed the contrast for the cutting boards. I have some pecan that I milled but I’m unsure how it will look with the mesquite. I will post a pic when I’m done. I will start on it tomorrow, should be done Friday.

Fantastic boards. As for your cutting the slabs up…..that was just wrong! funny but wrong. hahahaha

Great job. Keep it up.

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!