My version of Mike's cutting board

[Don Farr]

Mike has seen this before, but others may not have. Not as fancy as his but for my first try it's OK.
I would like to make another one but don't have the material now.

[Brad Hammond]

Mike has seen this before, but others may not have. Not as fancy as his but for my first try it's OK.
I would like to make another one but don't have the material now.

great work!

[Jason Roehl]

Looks real good to me!!

[Von Bickley]

Don,

Looks real good. Thanks for sharing the picture with us.

[Ron McNeil]

Don,

That's a good looking cutting board not bad for a first. The talent at Saw Mill Creek is outstanding.

[Pete Lamberty]

Looks great Don. What kind of wood did ou use? Pete

Mike has seen this before, but others may not have. Not as fancy as his but for my first try it's OK.
I would like to make another one but don't have the material now.

[Doug Jones]

I like the cutting board. You did a great job. I like the contrasting woods.

Its on my try to do list as well. Do you think white oak and cherry would work for such a project.

[Tom Sweeney]

That's a fine looking cutting board - I'll try one - one of these days with some Cherry & maple I have - Course I have to finish the much simpler one I started a while ago.

Nice Work!

[Jim Young]

Beatifull, it's mesmerizing. I can't help but stare at it.

[Jim Becker]

What kind of wood did ou use?

I am thinking that is black walnut and maple...which is what I'll be making mine out of in my copious free time... :rolleyes:

[Bob Lasley]

Don,

Looks like outstanding work to me. I would be proud to display that on my counter........not sure I would want to cut anything on it though.......to pretty for that!

Bob

[Keith Starosta]

Don, I remember a little while back reading where a few members were offering to host Mike's pictures and techniques for creating that beautiful cutting board. Did that ever happen? I'd love to take a crack at making one myself.

Yours looks great, by the way!

Keith

[Glenn Clabo]

Don, I remember a little while back reading where a few members were offering to host Mike's pictures and techniques for creating that beautiful cutting board. Did that ever happen? I'd love to take a crack at making one myself
Keith

Keith...It's in the Articles section.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?threadid=2692

[Don Farr]

Thanks for the praises guys.
Pete, Jim got it correct, the wood that I used was maple and black walnut.

Doug, I'm not sure about the white oak. I know Mike does mention cherry is OK. I guess you could try it and see how it comes out. I would think it's OK if it is hard enough.

Keith, Check out the link that Glenn posted. These are the instructions that Mike gave me several months back. My stock TS fence was not accurate enough to use !/32" increments. So I made mine in 1/16" increments.

NOTE: Be sure to use long open time glue just as Mike suggest. I didn't and that give me the biggest problem of the whole project.

[George Grubaugh]

Wow! Beautiful! I showed it to the LOML, mistake. Now I have one more project on " the list ". Great job, I'm truly impressed.

[Mark Patoka]

Beautiful board, I'll have to try one in this style also. Just wanted to add my comment about using oak. I know it's been mentioned before that oak isn't recommended due to the porous nature of the wood. I just got back from visiting my mother and she still has the segmented multi-wood cutting board I made in Jr High Wood Shop 20+ years ago. The cherry, walnut and maple are holding up fine but the oak sections are definitely more worn down from all the cutting over the years. Stick with the close-grained wood.

[Don Farr]

Mark, The testimony of time! You can't go wrong there. Good advise.