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1st Bread Boards

Project by Toolz posted 558 days ago 399 views 0 times favorited 6 comments Add to Favorites Watch

My wife and two of her sisters like to make homemade bread and have been asking for bread boards. Here are my first results. They were made with ambrosia maple, walnut and red oak. Finish is mineral oil.Click for details

-- Growing older but not up!


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chaim

33 posts in 608 days


posted 558 days ago

!C:\Documents and Settings\win\My Documents\My Pictures!Very cool!
but (just as a side note) you might want to in the future reconsider your construction of the bread board.
From the pictures it looks like you glued long grain to end grain and this can couse problems when the wood expands or contracts with the inevitable changes in moister content. It could couse the board to delaminate itself!
Other than this they look great!
chaim
P.S. I made the same mistake myself, and it took me a few projects to relize it!

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teenagewoodworker

2470 posts in 647 days


posted 558 days ago

thats a nice project. same thing as chaim though about gluing end grain to long grain. I just recently made that mistake too. otherwise great breadboard. thanks for the post.

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Napaman

3421 posts in 956 days


posted 558 days ago

i love them…good advice on the endgrain—-I was thinking as I re-furbish a neighbors cutting board…that I would do the same thing you did—-frame the endgrain…it looks nice…even if it may have problems down the road…just gives you another chance to make a new gift…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

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DAN

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posted 558 days ago

nice job.

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

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Bradford

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posted 558 days ago

They look very nice. And good advice from above, Thanks.

-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford.

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Toolz

304 posts in 621 days


posted 557 days ago

Thanks for the comments. Rather than typical breadboard joints on the ends of the boards I used a biscuit jointer and small sized biscuits. Time will tell how they hold up. Thanks for the comments.

-- Growing older but not up!

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