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This cutting board is made from brown maple and bloodwood. This is my design and aside from cutting the thin bloodwood strips (because I had a bad allergic reaction to bloodwood) I completed it myself.

It was done in two seperate glue-ups. The edges were curved on a bandsaw and smoothed with a spindle sander. It was sanded to 400 grit and finished with mineral oil, then a mineral oil and wax mix.

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Very nice cutting board!! I like the pattern you have created with the contrasting bloodwood.
Cheers, Jim
 

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Very nice design. Lots of great lady LumberJocks here, you are now one of them!
 

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This one looks a lot nicer in person. I like it a lot
 

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It's very beautiful pattern.
 

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I bet a husband could learn a lot from a gal like you. Aint that right Joe?

Very well done. I don't even see any bleeding from the bloodwood to the maple!
 

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Nice Board!!!! Some of my best students were girls!!!
 

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Great looking board
 

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Nice looking cutting board. For some reason I just got the urge to play Super Mario Brothers…
 

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Outstanding job!
 

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Excellent design! I love it, although I'm not sure what being a girl has to do with it?
 

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Great looking board - Girl Woodworker :). I really like your board.
 

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Chris, you are correct. She's pretty talented and has a large part in the design of most of my projects too
 

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Bloodwood is very dusty. I had a 3 day hospital stay last year after breathing in some bloodwood dust. I'm very cautious (paranoid, actually) working with it now. It is a beautiful wood though, so I have Joe cut it for me.
 

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+1 for the "what's being a girl got to do with it" opinion. I've seen over 50 projects on here, made by women, that I wish I could complete. And I'm a guy. And I make a living renovating homes. Just be careful of that dust, I didn't know bloodwood was that bad, but I've never seen it in person, so never cut it.
 
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