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Hey LJs,
This is a cutting board done as a Chevron with steps. Are you looking at the top of the steps, or from below? I believe if Escher made boards, he would have made one like this.
I somehow get drawn into designing these things. When times get boring, or I get stuck trying to finish my other projects, I seem to always turn back to them. Maybe I am addicted.
My name is Steve, and I have a cutting board problem.
The build was pretty straight forward. I made two identical glue-ups; one with maple and cherry, the other with maple and walnut. I then cut them into strips on a 45 degree diagonal. The walnut was at 3/4 inch wide, and the cherry was 7/8 and 2 inch widths. I flipped the walnut pieces over, and then alternated the two different woods. You can see on the last picture how I determined where to cut out the center section. You can also see my pencil marks and strip numbering to ease the often hectic glue-up phase.
Sanded to 220 and finished with drug store mineral oil. Final size is about 12 inches by 17 inches.
Thanks for looking,
Steve
-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon
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JL7
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#1 posted 427 days ago
Hi Steve – I’m Jeff – and it’s because of people like you, I have a cutting board problem too….....
Seriously – that is another one outstanding original design – truly amazing…........thanks Steve…
-- Jeff - I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
jeepturner
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#2 posted 427 days ago
Nice board Steve, maybe you should start a twelve step program to help us overcome our addictions?
I always like the Escher looking boards.
Thanks for posting it. Even if it does start me thinking of cutting boards.
-- Mel
eddie
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#3 posted 427 days ago
Steve
Hi my name is Eddie i want to be a addictic too:)
love it .that turned out great i got to build one of these you may be an enabler thanks for the post
-- Jesus Is Alright with me
AandCstyle
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#4 posted 427 days ago
Steve, another great design! You really have a talent for making most of the rest of us feel inferior. :) You also have a talent for your design and execution or great looking CB’s. Thanks for the post.
-- Art
KnotCurser
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#5 posted 427 days ago
Hi Steve…..
I am also an addict – I have been CB Sober for over a year now….....And I think It’s about time I make another one! Yeah – this time maybe a drunken one, or a tumbling block one, or a…......Somebody STOP Me!
This looks fantastic – I would love to know where you get the ideas you come up with!
Keep it up,
-bob
-- Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. - Thomas Carlyle http://www.ffrf.org
Joe Lyddon
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#6 posted 427 days ago
Steve,
Thank for your Step by step project!
LOOKS great!
Cool technique!
-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?ppuser=1389&cat=500"
CalgaryGeoff
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#7 posted 427 days ago
Another great design. Steve also started my cb addiction last year with one of his designs.
-- If you believe you can or can not do a thing, you are correct.
peteg
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#8 posted 427 days ago
Geeez you guys crack me up, hey Steve you have a tricky design there,
are the different size steps for cutting different size pieces of food??? :: )))
or
do you like to cut somethings going uphill & some down::))
Great job mate, love them
Pete
-- Pete G: If you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got
shipwright
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#9 posted 427 days ago
Very nice Steve but you make my brain hurt with this stuff.
Great illusion!
-- Paul M ..............If God wanted us to have fiberglass boats he would have given us fiberglass trees. http://prmdesigns.com/
CharlieM1958
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#10 posted 427 days ago
Steve, this is the best yet. Definitely looks like an Escher work.
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
doordude
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#11 posted 427 days ago
Who is Escher? Fantastic work. i don’t know how you do it, but it makes my head spin. even with the directions…
robert triplett
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#12 posted 427 days ago
Great design. Thanks for the step by step. One question, and I think I can do this. How long were the strips when you started?
-- Robert, so much inspiration here, and so little time!
wiser1934
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#13 posted 427 days ago
steve, you have way too much time on your hands!!! LOL love that board i swear that you are a reincarnation of james escher
-- wiser1934, new york
vipond33
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#14 posted 427 days ago
Nice one Steve. You must be getting old though, needing two landings to get up stairs. It’s weird too, only by turning my head sideways can I see the steps from the bottom.
-- gene@toronto.ontario.canada : dovetail free since '53, critiques always welcome.
Bob Kollman
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#15 posted 427 days ago
Looks real good wonderful design!!!!
-- Bob Kenosha Wi.
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