All Replies on "I'd like to order 3 large cutting boards, please"

Make it 48” x 72” and charge him appropriately :D That is large in my book!

Who knew ordering a cutting board can be so involved….

Wood types….what??

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

OK, this is gonna sound stupid, but walking through a Bed, Bath and Beyond, my wife and I saw a “large”, which was about 12” X 18”, (made in china, so probably metric), or big enough to carve up your typical turkey or standing rib roast. A “small”, was about 9” X 12”, or comfortable enough to do a brisket or small ham or roast. These are all relative, and to make matters worse, they might change in different parts of the country.

-- Paul, Tennessee, http://www.tsunamiguitars.com

start at 12”x18”, and send him a picture. Then add 2 more inches in both directions. Send him another picture. Then add 2 more inches. Send yet another picture, with the caption “Say when.”

-- - The mightiest oak in the forest is just a little nut that held its ground.

Sizing like that is very relative, if you look at at a Cabela’s catalog many things come in Large, Extra Large and Magnum. In that case the large translates to small. I’d ask for clarification and settle on a dimension before I went to the lumber yard.

-- Bondo Gaposis

OII ... :-)
ask if one 14” x 23” is what he had in mind
thats little over the half of a kitchentable wide and short enoff to go
in a standard closet so he still can close the door on it

Dennis

I would get exact dimensions to make sure you are not spending to much on lumber. If you got a lot of “scrap” lumber already on hand, go nuts and make a couple of different sizes in the wood choices he listed and charge him extra for your time.

I gave him two examples. 14×18 and 18×24. “Which do you consider LG?”, I asked….

He’s going home tonight to measure one he has at home.

Stay tuned :)

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

12-14 inches by 18-24 inches sounds good

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

Do them like Pizza Hut.

-- Failure does not stop me, it makes me try harder..... because I'm crazy.

....and the winner is (drum roll please)

Three 14” x 18” boards!
Thank you, thank you very much…..

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

But how thick? ;-)

-- Mark - Pueblo, Colorado

That’s not large, my large one is 19×24x1.75, really meant to sit in the middle of the table as a hot pot and for carving turkeys or large roasts.

-- --Rev. Russ in NY-- A posse ad esse

He asked if 14×18 was large…..I suggested 18×24 x 1.5 but he didn’t bite.

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

At what thickness does it stop being a board and becomes a chopping block ?

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

Try 24×36 ;-)

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence