Be Careful What You Wish For

wow thats a beautiful cutting board. its cool when things happen like that. you give a gift and then word spreads and sooner or later your making beautiful monsters like that. great job. make sure to post some more cutting boards. keep it up!

Whew, that’s a crazy big cutting board :)

That IS one big board. Looks nice though!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Good luck with the new venture.

That is one big board.

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

I travel around to shows with my furniture and always run into a guy that just makes cutting boards.That’s all he does for a living and is always very bust at the shows(busier than I usually am)There seems to be a big market for them maybe you found a new calling!!!!!!

-- Scott NM,http://www.shangrilawoodworks.com

Big cutting boards are GOOD! And not so easy to find.

My second hobby is cooking, and I love a nice big cutting board to work on.

If you keep making them, especially as nice as that one, I’ll bet you will have no trouble at all selling them.

-- Mark

Go with the flow, mon ami. Lemons to lemonade. Make the boards, pocket the money and remember to smile.

always,
J.C.

-- "Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Albert Einstein

Not sure I’d have the counter space for that monster! But it sure is pretty and I’m sure a professional or serious cooking hobbiest is really going to love having that in their arsenal of tools.

-- Betsy - GO BUCKS!

They look great and people want to by them. What’s not to love?

-- Chris

Nice work. Can you give us some more details on how you put it all together?

-- Ron in Osseo, Minnesota

these look great

-- making sawdust....

This is very nice board and it certainly isn’t your run of the mill cutting board. It is a very unique and interesting design. What type of woods did you put into it?

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

I sell cabinets and granite counter tops. I’ve been getting more and more inquiries for Butcher block tops, especially for islands. It might benefit you to look at local kitchen design places (low volume, high profit). Drop off some wood species and edge treatment samples and prices on a checklist order form and see if they would represent your custom Blocks and Tops. People are more willing to spend money on more affordable luxuries like Starbucks and maybe chopping blocks.

-- Thuan

Thanks for the kind words. The lady who commisioned it has a big kitchen with a lot of counter space. It will probably stay in the same spot all the time. Many of the first ones I made were TWW design which everyone likes. I like making this design because it is so simple to resize and second glue up alignment is not as critical. For example this one goes:

3” walnut
3” Maple
3” Maple
3” Maple
3” Maple
3” Maple
2” Walnut

To change the finished size, just change the width of the maple strips. I draw it out of graph paper and adjust the maple widths so the seams are offset. Some of the smaller versions use two 3” and two 2” maple. You can also change the width of the walnut or whatever contrasting wood you use.

-- I don't make mistakes, only design changes....

Thuan, I felt like I just arm wrestled a grizzly bear after running this one through multiple passes on my drum sander. I can’t imagine makiing one 25” x whatever length for a kitchen counter top.

-- I don't make mistakes, only design changes....