Bread Board

Oh, My! That makes my head hurt trying to figure out the cuts and fitment on that one! LOL.

Great work.

-- Improvise.... Adapt...... Overcome!

Wow that pattern is way cool great job Ray.
It would cool if you did a blog on how you made this pattern.

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

That’s a nice design and really catches the eye. Nice work.

helluvawreck aka Charles
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-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

Fantastic design Ray and nicely made too.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Thanks for the comments. For a1Jim: no blog needed – it’s dead simple. Take three or four different woods, mill them to the same size and then stack them on top of each other with a few pieces of double sided sticky tape in between each layer. Draw whatever curve you like on top and cut the stack on the bandsaw. Take them apart and glue one side to a different wood of the other side. Use LOTS of glue. Plane flat to remove the glue. Restack with tape, draw another curve, cut and repeat as many times as you like. Edge glue the final boards to make the final cutting board.

I made a template of a sine wave to draw regular curves but hand drawn irregular curves turn out some pretty interesting results, too. One obvious comment on bandsawing – don’t try to correct any sawing errors if you go off the curved line. Backing out the blade creates gaps.

Hope this is useful.

-- Ray, Phoenix, Maryland

Nice change from the more frequently seen designs. And good tips on how to do it. I knew when I saw “sine wave” that the maker had to have a science background. What’s next, hyperbolic sine ?

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Thats a really neat design

-- Michael Mills, North Carolina, http://www.scicaskets.com

Looks like a 3 phase board to me. Nice pattern

-- Scott, Irmo SC

That’s really raising the bar !

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

Beautiful!

-- No, I don't want to buy the pink hammer.

Amazing work!