Garth Snyder
08-05-2009, 9:51 PM
I would like to make a simple end-grain cutting board and was thinking of a design something like this, in walnut and hard maple:
http://legionsgs.com/xtra/garth/CuttingBoard.gif
The checkerboard would be end grain, and the edging would be tri-layer long grain with simple miter joints at the corners.
Is this going to be OK with respect to wood motion? A cutting board is going to go through a lot of wetting and drying, and I guess the checkerboard squares might want to expand horizontally in both directions when wet.
I'm just a mite suspicious because I don't remember seeing many end-grain cutting boards that have any kind of border.
http://legionsgs.com/xtra/garth/CuttingBoard.gif
The checkerboard would be end grain, and the edging would be tri-layer long grain with simple miter joints at the corners.
Is this going to be OK with respect to wood motion? A cutting board is going to go through a lot of wetting and drying, and I guess the checkerboard squares might want to expand horizontally in both directions when wet.
I'm just a mite suspicious because I don't remember seeing many end-grain cutting boards that have any kind of border.