Butcher block update

[Jim Colombo]

Earlier I posted about an old butcher block my neighbor wanted to install in her kitchen. Today I got a close look at it and you guys won't believe it's construction. Every single block is mortise and tenon joined to the next with 2 joints.!!!!!!!

Have any of you ever seen anything like that. I'm going over there Wednesday and I'll post some pictures.

This thing has to be over 50 years old. She said her father had it in his shop and got it from his father.

By the way, thanks for all your comments on the earlier post

Jim

[Carl Beckett]

Sounds like one of those tasks you get as an apprentice. Here young whippersnapper, go build a bench top this way...... By the time you are done you will be good at that joint.

[Brian Jarnell]

Either that, or he doesn't know what to do with his time.

[Howard Acheson]

>>>> Have any of you ever seen anything like that.

That is a not uncommon construction method used before the types of adhesives currently available. A friend's grandfather owned a butcher shop and had a couple of those types of butcher blocks.

[Richard Coers]

Maybe you won't find any adhesive used at all. Tap around, throw some clamps on it, see if those cracks close up.