LVDT

this is a beautiful board and very well done. Will you expand on the 2,3,4,3 pattern? I haven’t heard of it.

-- Everyone calls me Ed or Eddie , mom still calls me Edward if she is mad at me.

Jim, awesome job on the LVDT. That thing is a beast. Excellent job on the glue up. Really nice joint alignment. Not an easy challenge.

I too shy away from the juice trough, as I’m sure I’d torch a perfectly good board with my router.

So sorry to hear about the family matters you’ve dealt with. Family before woodworking.

All the best my friend.

-- Measure, cut, curse, repeat.

OK prattman, it took a few minutes to find the post but here it is. http://lumberjocks.com/projects/41047 McLeanVA posted this some time back and he explains the 2,3,4,3 pattern and how to make it. Like I said, it’s very basic and all you have to do is change the cut deminisions a little, change the wood colors or change up the wood type location in the layout and the pattern possibilities are ENDLESS. You’ll have a few that just don’t make the grade (color layout after cutting) but that’s how we learn. This summer I met a fellow woodworker at the Eastern Market Farmers Market on the hill in DC and showed him the pattern. I was back in DC in Sept and saw him again & asked if he had tried it yet. He said he had and they had sold quickly. Do an LVDT or LCDT search on LJ and you’ll see many of these and their endless patterns. Good luck and have fun with it.

McLeanVA, we’‘ll be back in your neck of the woods in about 3 weeks ushering in our first grandchild. This one is being done the old fashion way, nobody knows the sex or the names chosen…........

-- Jim Roberts, Port Orchard Washington

Hey Jim, that is sweet.

I also have been chicken to put in a blood moat. I guess I should just grow up and do it.

Sorry for your loss.
Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Great looking board.I’m sorry for you families loses .

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Thank you all for your kind comments. For those of you who were afraid to attack the juice trough/blood moat (umm, prime rib), here is what I did. I made a rudimentary frame around the cutting board. I made the frame the same heigth as the thickness of the LVDT. I made the width of the frame equal to the center of the router to the edge of the router plus the added dimension of the wanted location of the trough on the LVDT. I then added a guide rail to the outside of this frame so the edge of the router would use it as a stop/guide edge. I made the heigth of this guide edge a little taller then the bottom plastic plate of my router. NOW, just remember, you have to be VERY careful when starting and stopping your router operations as not to let the router take you off your wanted router route. Know what I mean? The rotation of the router may want to pull in a direction you really don’t want to go. This guide edge gives you the ability to turn the corner in a nice easy & clean motion so it doesn’t look like a starting and stopping location. Trying to do a juice trough freehand is NOT in my ability range….. Good luck and I hope this helps someone.

Chris, you mentioned the clean joint points. Thank you for noticing. Our good friend (and the LVDT master) from down under would be all over me if I hadn’t.

-- Jim Roberts, Port Orchard Washington

Sorry for your loss Jim…always tough.

Nice looking board, nice and clean looking.

I too have shied away from the ‘blood moat’ (good one Steve, I like it). I’ve gotten close to trying to add one but when I look at the board and envision the ‘what if’, I quickly put the router away and wait until the feeling passes. Maybe I should practice on a bunch of plywood first :)

Do you have any pictures of your frame Jim?

-- -- Don in Ottawa, http://www.donebydon.ca

Nice job! Where did you get the poly feet? I’d like to add that to mine.

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Jim thank you for the information and I too am sorry for your loss.

-- Everyone calls me Ed or Eddie , mom still calls me Edward if she is mad at me.

Nice job, I really like that you kept the grain orientation in order after the 2nd cut and before the last glue up. Shows attention to detail. Glad you are like woodworking again, I kinda fell into the same rut for a little bit. Well done, anjoy that grand-baby!!!!!

-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"

beautiful board.

Jim, I had wondered what you were up to. It is that time of life for a bunch of us. A new grand child helps!! Great job on the board. Someone just asked me if I could put a juice groove on a board. Silly me, I said yes-how hard can it be. Kind of hoping he doesn’t call me. Interesting that you are giving up shows. I have been moving towards galleries and away from shows due to the travel and expense. Good luck.

-- Robert, so much inspiration here, and so little time!

To those that wanted to see pics of my juice trough jig here are some that maybe will help with the explanation from above.

This pic is of the board with the frame around it.

This is a close up of the guide/stop rail. Look closely as it is hard to see.

This is a better shot of the guide rail with the router base up against it. Look into the center of the router base & you can see the finished juice trough.

this is a little better shot of the guide/stop rail on the oputside of the frame.

-- Jim Roberts, Port Orchard Washington