Bubble Cutting Board

Excellent board, your co-worker will appreciate it. Good job.

It looks good to me. Thanks for the mention.

-- Scott Smith, Southern Illinois

Hello WoodenSoldier

Nicely done

The effect is beautiful

Thanks for sharing

-- Diggerjack-France ---The only limit is the limit of the mind and the mind have no limit

Fabulous.

-- Drink twice... and don't bother to cut... @ larrysworkshop.wordpress.com For lovers of all things timber...

Looks great, think i may have to try my hand at this one of these days… I really like optical illusions in wood. nice one!

-- A hammer dangling from a wall will bang and sound like work when the wind blows the right way.

looks good to me

-- Dreaming patterns

fantastic. nicely done..

Looks great. A future project for me for sure.

-- Kevin May "Making wood useful and fun!" www.kevinmaywoodworks.com

OK, I give up! How the heck did you make it? Or is that a closely guarded trade secret?

-- Jim in Tennessee

It’s actually pretty simple, but it is a little time consuming cutting all the dowels and gluing them in.
Just build a regular checkered end-grain cutting board (make sure it’s square and has an odd number of rows in both the vertical and horizontal directions), then mark the locations of the holes and drill them.

I just marked all four sides of the board and created a grid before taking it to the drill press and drilling it out.

Here it is with most of the holes drilled into it. I had to go back and add holes into 8 more blocks to complete the illusion later.

I made the mistake of making the cutting board first with an even number of rows which won’t work. I had to go back and mill more wood and add a row to either side which was not nearly as easy as making it right the first time.

-- I wish wood grew on trees so that this was a cheaper hobby.

WoodenSoldier – Just curious… how does size of the “dots” (dowels) affect the illusion ? Is there an ideal proportional relationship between the size of the squares and the dots ? Great looking board !! Thank you for your service.

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