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Picked up some walnut, cherry, and maple with the idea of making some end grain cutting boards for people for Christmas

Cut to rough lengths

Jointed and planed to square up the lumber

Cutting the boards into strips

Figuring out patters for the initial glue up

Initial glue up

Scraping off the dried glue and prepping for another trip to the planer

Getting ready for the second round of cutting

Figuring out the layout for the crosscut pieces for the second glue up

Second glue up

Glued dry now to the router table to round the edges so they don't blow out when I run them through the planer

Lots and lots of sanding

Soaked in mineral oil

Boards are finished with a beeswax and mineral oil paste that I made. Here are a sitting in plastic wrap getting ready to put in gift bags.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That would be a badass chessboard too