My "drunken board' attempt

I like what you have done. Reminds me of a waving flag! Good Job!

-- Tony C , My high school shop teacher said "You can do it"... Now I can't stop!

Thanks, woodshaver. Someone else told me that same thing, that it looked like a flag at a Nascar race. :-)

-- -- Don from PA

That is neat! Do you have any pics of the layup and cutting process?

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!

@Jim,

No, I thought about taking pictures afterwards. You’d think I would remember to do that, but no, I usually think about it halfway thru the project.

BUT, I got the inspiration from this post
http://lumberjocks.com/poroskywood/blog/10833

I believe his name is Scott. It’s a VERY detailed account of how to do this. I went with the second part of the post so the pieces would line up exactly. (and I left out the strips in between for this board.)

If you do one of these, i found one of the most important things is to trim the edges of the boards perfectly flush AFTER taping them together. BOTH TIMES! Then its pretty easy to line them up for the subsequent glueups. Also, unlike Scott, for better or worse, I don’t sand the edges after the bandsaw cuts. I just take off the dust and loose stuff. I found, for me, that I get better matchups for the glue joints that way. Of course, it could be that I get too aggressive if I sand the bandsaw cuts and end up distorting the forms so then gaps show up when trying to glue them back together. Oh well, gotta do what works for you.

Thanks for lookin’,
Don

-- -- Don from PA

Nice job on this. It looks great.

-- Use it up, Wear it out --------------- Make it do, Or do without!

Thats a great looking board..nice work. I want to try and make a few of theses…
Unless your sanding by hand..I don’t have a problem sanding end grain boards..

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Brad, that’s a very cool looking butcher block tray on your facebook page. I’m longing for a drum sander. Someday.

-- -- Don from PA

Great job on this !!
I was just looking at Scotties tutorial the other day and hope to make some of these soon.

-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.

Good job. The corner match is almost perfect. I have made a bunch of these following Scott’s tutorial and they always are well received, usually with the comment “How did you do that?” Try one with the strips. I actually think they are more forgiving.

-- Rowdy in Kechi, Kansas

That’s very cool. Thanks for the tutorial reference also. I’d like to try one of these for myself now!

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I shouldn’t have had the extra beer before looking at this board! Now my other cutting board doesn’t look right! Good job, I think !

-- Paul - The sweetest sound in my shop, next to Mozart, is what a hand plane makes slicing a ribbon.

Very nice board.Maple and Purplehearth look good together.

-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted