End-Grain Re-think !

Nice board Jay. And yes you could have run it through your planer. If your planer is wide enough for the 17 inches. Mine only takes 13 inches. When I do my boards I always run the initial lamination through before I cross cut it for the second glue up. Once you do that you can’t. I have before and it was disastrous.

-- “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” ~ JRR Tolkien

very nice board, and i have become a sand by hand guy also, i still use my electric sanders, but i always go over my pieces by hand at the end, as i have now seen that things feel much smoother this way, and i just like it, it makes me feel more connected to what i have made…and i think you could have sent this through your planer, yea its possible you will get tear out, but what the heck, do another one and try it…dare to be different…lol….

-- GRIZZMAN ...[''''']

Looks good to me. I plane mine length wise. Tried it once on end grain, won’t do that again :-0

-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability

this board here does not look like end grain to me, am i wrong…but as to end grain, i know you cant plane it, as monte has alluded to, ive heard it to be a real big no no..

-- GRIZZMAN ...[''''']

I do like the wood combos

-- Roger from KY. Work/Play/Travel Safe. Kentuk55@bellsouth.net

Nice and useful board as is .
I would like to see a pic of how you shaped the ends ,I am always interested in the grip/handle solution .

-- Kiefer 松

No need to repeat what Monte and grizz already said. Great looking board

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

Some great woods in this one….....wow…...nice job!

-- "Make something you love tomorrow...and do it slowly" JLB

good looking board, a final hand sanding makes a lot of improvement.
I use cedar for a lot of projects and usually round or soften all edges by hand sanding to eliminate splinters.

-- bowtie,.....jus passin thru.... cccedar.com

great looking board
as you know , i haven’t had much luck using my planer

it seems to hang up
belt sand , orbital then hand works every time

-- KOOG plan today...survive tommorow