Big Maple Chopping Block

Lift with the knees!

Looks good!

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Awesome chopping block.

What are the demensions? Looks pretty stout.

The dimensions are 12” tall and 38” in Dia.

“Centerpiece in their wine cellar” You could butcher hogs or split wood on that puppy! Very nice!

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That is exactly what I thought it was going to be used for when I saw it. Nice build, what did you use for legs?

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The block was placed in the middle of 12’ x 12’ wine cellar, on top of some wine racks. They had planned to open the bottles and serve cheese around it. I do not have pictures of the room, but it must of had room for 1,000+ bottles.

Wow, that is one nice block of wood.And end grain up too. That is a real good idea!!
What does it weigh?.............Jim

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It took 2-3 of us to carry it any where. It’s weight was around 450 lbs.

How did you make a perfect circle?

To cut the circle shape I built an table around the saw for support, ran a screw up through the table into the middle of then square block and rotated it around the screw through the band saw. My saw had a 1/2” blade on on it but the radius was so large it cut just fine. We finished up the sides of the block with a belt sander then random orbit sanders. The top and bottom edge is a 1/8” round over. The finish was just one coat of satin Waterlox that was sanded after it dried then applied mineral oil. The pictures were taken before the finish, which will darken the wood a little. This finish is to slow down water penetration but make it look like there is not a finish on the wood. Hope this helps.

Now thats a chopping block sweet!

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That’s impressive. The wine racks would have needed to be pretty beefy as well.

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Whenever someone posts a project with the biggest or smallest item, the race is on! Anybody got a bigger cutting board? Your cutting board would have made the worlds stiffest workbench if you’d left it square. I’m impressed with any cutting board that takes at least 120 bft to build it. I don’t have enough clamps to glue up something this big…

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Nice chopping block customer should be very happy