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Here's some cutting boards I made as Christmas presents. We liked em so much we kept the one in the 3rd picture. All about 7/8 inches thick (except the little guy, it's about 1/2").

1st picture and 6th are cherry, walnut, and purpleheart.
pictures 2-4 are maple, walnut and purple.
picture 5 is just maple and purple.

All treated with butcher block oil until I discovered the wonders of how cheap mineral oil is from the pharmacy. Now I use Kroger or CVS brand mineral oil.

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Nice boards! I like using Purpleheart because of the color and the hardness of the wood. It does go well with the other woods. I would have kept the 3rd one also.
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You can't beat those wood combinations. They still produce the prettiest boards… and some of the hardest!
Nice work!
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JoshIndy,

I am guessing that you saw the videos from the Wood Whisperer on this? Just curious why you didn't go with the end grain cutting board?
 

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Very nice boards. I like the wood combinations.
 

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I've only actually seen 1-2 of the wood whisperer's videos….not one on cutting boards. The woods looked neat, the patterns just 'happened'...cut the strips of wood out and just sort of layed them out that way. I may try an end grain board next…these are just a lot easier.
 

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Nice combination of woods.

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I like 5 & 6 the best…...keep trying , there's no end to the combinations you can produce : )
Happy New Year !
 
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