More "scrap wood" projects, a cutting board

wow that great. those dovetails look really nice too. just shows what you can make out of some scrap and some patience. keep up the great work.

in that second picture, it looks like those dovetails don’t show on the other side of the board… is that right?
regardless, it is a cool looking board. nice work!

Great job.

I can’t throw out scraps either, I’ll always have a use for them somewhere, especially cut offs like the ones you had. I love the contrasting wood in the dovetails, which were a great choice for the edges.

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No darryl…nobody can see the bottom ;-) They are cut on a 45 angle to show on the side and top where people can see them.

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Interesting looking pattern on that one!

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Hi Daren,

I see you just couldn’t leave well enough alone. You had a nice piece to use for a cutting board but you had to go and put 32 dovetails in it as well.

Seriously, nicely done. The walnut and maple make a nice combination of woods and the dovetails add a nice detail to the piece.

Thanks for the post.

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Clever!

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That is a unique looking cutting board. I like it.

-- Kevin, Wichita, Kansas

Quite unique. I like the look.

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Neat idea. It came out very nice looking. I’ve never seen dovetails cut into the side of something like that for decoration.

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Nice work. I’d like to hear (or see) more about this jig of yours!

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Douglas it is a neat little deal (and this is coming from a most often “anti-gadget” guy) There is a sled that rides on your table saw miter gauge. That sled cuts the splines at the perfect angle to match the degree of the router bit you are using, in this case 14. And the sled sets the wood slightly off 90 degrees from the saw blade so the splines are tapered (they are tapped in to the slots, friction fit) Set the table saw blade on the angle of the router bit, put a piece of wood on it and cut out a handful of splines.
The slot cutting jig just clamps on the workpiece and guides the router. I could have gotten fancy and put bigger splines in and then used a smaller router bit and inlayed them with a contrasting wood (did that make sense?).
I attached a picture of the set. The black thing is a corner inlayer (I have not even used it yet, only had the thing for a few days) It goes on the router and cuts a receiving slot with a straight bit for an inlay on the corner of anything. I may have not explained it well, here is were I found it http://www.dovetailspline.com/index.html

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Nice board Daren. I ordered one of the jigs last night – can’t wait to give it a go. Did your kit come with the bits and router guides, or is that some you already had?

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My kit came with the 1/2” bit and bearing, yours should too if you bought the whole deal ? From what I can tell the price goes up after today... just like every thing else is :-(. I am raising my lumber prices just a little, gas -etc. are killing me.(and looking hard at my sharpening rates) But unfortunately it is killing my customers too, not good all around.

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Nice work

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