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I know you guys must be sick of the cutting boards by now but i just had to show em off.

they are walnut with a stripe of brazilian cherry. I was going to do the typical checkerboard pattern but when I made the first cut the grain was so beautiful i just couldn't chop it up. The really dark one is the same wood it is darker because i used 100% pure Tung oil on it. That was the first. The rest are butcher block finish. I think its pretty amazing how the tung oil makes the cherry a bright red and the buthcher block oil makes it look gold. Yes they are the same piece of cherry too.

Keep on making wood chips.

cliff

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Don't blame you for not chopping it up. That is way to pretty as is. nice job.
Merry Christmas
 

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More pictures , please ! Welcome to LJs : )
 

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Those are nice!
Thanks for sharing with us and welcome to Lumberjocks community.
 

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Looks great. Very nice grain in that walnut.
Not sure if you know, but Brazilian cherry is also known as Jatoba, and is not a type of cherry at all. In fact they have very little in common other than a color similarity. JATOBA

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yah.. would have been "bad" to cut that up!! beautiful pattern.. and nice boards :D
 

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Beautiful boards. You were smart to save that grain pattern. The natural pattern gives it more character than you would have creating a pattern. Isn't nature great??

................Jim Jakosh
 

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These look great! Looks like you let the wood tell you what to do. As a result you have something beautiful and unique.
 

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@ryan, i didn't know that, wow looking at your link that is definitly it. I got the wood from my brother in law after he finished putting it down as flooring in his house. and he said it was "brazillian cherry" so i took his word on it and never looked it up LOL. I got about 20 feet of it, 3/4 inch thick but its got the grooves on the back and on the sides so i had to saw those off. thanks for the info.

My grandfather and father were both trained as carpenter's so when i was growing up I was told "The wood should be the star, not your saw" so i am predisposed to making it simpler to show off the grain. My grandfather taught me whittling and one of the first lessons was to let the piece tell you what it wanted to be.

ah, to be a kid on the farm again. :/
 

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Real cool the way you played with the grain. Very eye-catching.
 

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cutting board???? that's too beautiful for that. Just simply beautiful, great job.
 

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The grain layout is well done, I am curious as to how long it took your first one with
the Tung oil to dry.
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