Martin Luther King SAVE THE CHILDREN cutting board and kit knives with Wenge handles

Dan, I’m impressed at the speed which you took this from sketchup to complete project. Great story about the wood as well. Great cutting board. Really and eye catcher! I ran some purple heart through my planer once. It made a mess of it. When I find a place and some money, I’m getting a drum sander. Great work again!

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

Great Dan. We appreciate your efforts.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Dan your cutting boards are a cut above most. Thank you for sharing!

This message is coming to you from the State of Louisiana – which is also the home of the Undisputed #1 Team in the Nation – LSU!!

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Dan; really great cutting boards!

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

That is a really awesome cutting board Dan. Even better, the wood has a story. Nothing beats wood with a story. Thanks for sharing with us.

-- -- Rob Hix, King George, VA

how wonderful .
What a great story behind the wood. The title of the project and the story really increases the value of the cutting board.

Do you know how you are going to sell them for the STC event?

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Beautiful job Dan and it,s even better that you made it for such a great cause.

-- John in Cranbrook http://www.extremebirdhouse.com ....http://community.webshots.com/user/cranbrook2

amazing…great story…great results…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...142 days to sanity...

Great story Dan and your boards are splendid.

-- James - Geneva, Switzerland

Hello All
Thanks for the feedback ! So far I have two others completed.

Ran out of the little yellowheart squares, so will try something else. .... zebra wood ? walnut ? oak ? mahogany ? imbuia ? sapele ? mansonia ? ash ? curly maple ? anigre ? bubinga ? ... so many choices of offcuts in my collection …

Hey Debbie
Not sure how to market them. I’m thinking ebay eventually. Haven’t come up with a firm plan yet. Thinking if I wait until Christmas season, I’ll get a better price, but probably will not be able to wait that long.

Tom
Sketchup is blast. It is easy to change the materials and you can see the color combinations imediately. Like I mentioned in my mockup posting I snag jpegs of the wood from the web and use them for the material tectures. ... link … to cherry mockup

-- ..... art for lifes sake

Dan,

Another nice cutting board. What is the glue up sequence for this?

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

made 2 boards using cumaru to replace the little yellow squares. cumaru is very dense and heavy. more-so then the yellow heart. more like hard maple. the little piece that I had left was quartersawn and interesting grained.
will post photos of the finished boards an another project. they are soaking up the mineral oil now.

below is the sketchup mockup with cumaru squares

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Also very nice Dan

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

The board and the story are awesome. I am so glad to be on lumberjocks because of projects like this one. I too have tried to speed things up with a planer and an endgrain cutting board and man can those chucks fly out of the planer.
Great Job Dan

-- -Alex, St Charles, MO - "Measure twice, cut once, and go back to the lumber yard because you still screwed up."

This was the weekend of woven cutting boards ! Figure I got about 10 hours total labor in this project.

Good thing they are for a cause, doubt if I could get much of a hourly return for them.

Made a total of 6 cutting boards. First one is-the-one-in this posting. It really is a reject because it is a salvage job after the planer tearout train wreak.

The last five are all the correct 8.5 square size.

Two are made with the yellowheart squares.

Next two are with cumaru squares as stated in previous entry and the last one is with curly maple squares.

Of the 6 boards, only 4 are really saleable quality. One had a .005 gap in one of the butt-joints that I filled with glue and saw dust. Not as nice as I would like (will be probably be a gift for a relative). And then there is the one in this project posting.
Learned a lot from this batch run. Got the gluing / clamping process nailed down. Will probably run another possibly larger batch in the next month or-so and make good pile of boards for the event.

-- ..... art for lifes sake

Great job Dan. You are the man. mike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

see below

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Dan I couldn’t find the page.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

see below

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-- ..... art for lifes sake

Very Nice Dan thanks for the pictures.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

with the rounded edges they look like chair pillows.. Gosh these are gorgeous.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Holy Moly! Great Great Great!

Dan, can you describe your glue-up procedure with this? It looks like it could be confounding.

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

Hey Tom

Glue up ….

Made a gluing surface by covering a 24×18inch square of plywood with clear packaging tape

Subassembly is gluing the strips / striped lumber… together. Titebond III glue. Glue brush. Clamp together and dry. Scraped dryed glue, Course sand faces and run thru drum sander to get precise width. Cut the sub-glue assembly to precise length (3.5) on table saw.

Make 4 gluing cauls for the ends of the board to clamp against. Cover with clear packing tape.

Trick to the glue up is a postioning the pieces in exact grain orientation before glue-up. I do this on one end of the table. Postion entire number of pieces together and look for misalignments or gaps etc.

Pour generous amount glue in a plastic container so as to get quick access to the glue.

One part at a time, I quickly brush on glue and place the parts in correct oreintation on the plywood gluing board. Must work quickly because of the short open time for the glue.

One by one I glue each piece and and reassemble the pattern on the glue board. Takes about five minutes if you work real quick.

Then postion the cauls on all for sides. Balance the clamp pressure on each side. I then use 6 squeese type bar clamps to pull the joints closed. Three of the clamps are deeper reach so as to clear the lower 3 clamps. Slowly draw everything together. One clamp at a time. Possibly releasing and reclamping etc until all joints squeeze glue etc.

Watch for blocks that buckle or raise up and tamp them down with a stick and mallet.

Let dry and scrap glue. Sand, sand, sand, sand, sand

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Wow…I have so much catching up to do. These are great Dan.

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

Really great looking cutting boards! The stack of all of them together is awe-inspiring.

-- Nils Davis, Menlo Park, CA

Will post them one by one with links to the ebay auctions.

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Dan’l,
Have you transmogrified into Isaac Asimov? BTW, very attractive MLK projects.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Yep !

wondering when someone might notice or say something !

Issac Asimov was one of my influences when growing up. I have a pencil drawing that I did in the 7th grade hanging in my office.

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Very impressive.

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

Hey fellow jocks !

TONY made a blog on how to make these style cutting boards … check out this link to his blog

-- ..... art for lifes sake

Hey fellow jocks !

TONY made a blog on how to make these style cutting boards … check out this link to his blog

-- ..... art for lifes sake