You should firmly close the pores of the wood and prevent the ingress of moisture into the grains. Finally treat the board with the mineral oil. Make the finger grips at the shaper or by the router. Sand two edges of the board at the belt sander. Rotate all strips 90 degree end grain up. These boards consist of two types of the blocks you just made. Assemble eight 1st type blocks and eight 2nd type blocks. Make them a little wider for future planing. Make sixteen maple strips and sixteen cherry strips. Set the 45 degree cutting angle at your table saw and cut off sixteen strips. Making Middle Part of the Square Blocks.You need three types of wood: light wood (maple, hornbeam, birch), dark wood (padauk, walnut, sapele, purpleheart) and middle tone wood (movingui, cherry, oak). You may use other contrasting wood species. I used hard maple, black walnut and black cherry for this project. To make this part you should glue maple and walnut panels, cut off the parts at table saw at 45 degrees and then cut off the corners. The most complex is the middle part of each type. This pattern shows a 3D optical illusion of the zigzag wall lit by the sun. 3 People Made This Project! glang1202 made it! mariorb made it! rockntroll made it! Did you make this project?įrom Estimated Reading Time 4 mins To finish the cutting board I put a couple of coats of butcher block oil on it. Use a 1/4' router bit around all the edges. Then sand it off and it should look pretty nice. If there are any cracks or holes, just mix some sawdust and glue together and scrape it on the spots. (I chose walnut for the trim.) Glue the trim around the cutting board on two opposite sides. Cut some wood for the trim around the cutting board. Then cut off the excess pieces to create a straight edge on the cutting board. After the glue dries, plane the cutting board down. After the glue dries on the smaller pieces, lay them out the way you want them, making sure to have them in the same pattern. Once again, this will depend on the length and width you desire your cutting board to be. After cutting all the pieces, start gluing them all together until you have enough for your cutting board. There are many different methods used to make a diamond shape out of each type of wood. I cut and planed my pieces of wood down to about 1 1/2' by 1'.

Plane all three types of wood to the same size. Depending on the size of the cutting board you are planning to build, you will need different lengths of wood.

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