Robert McGowen
02-17-2006, 1:10 AM
I have been making a few cutting boards for personal use and gifts. I have really liked and appreciated the threads by creeker Vaughn McMillan. After seeing on Vaughn's website how to make a board that is zigzag looking, I have a couple of questions. Everyones' description shows the board glued together as strips, then cut at a diagonal and then glued together again. This leaves two large triangle-shaped waste pieces on each end. (see 1st figure) The black horizontal pieces are the glued strips, the red lines are the next cuts, and the blue area is the waste. Being frugal, etc., etc., I did not want to waste expensive wood. No one has mentioned this before, but it has to be a common way to cut the wood. I lined up the wood and made a 60 degree mark across the first board. (any angle you chose would work) I then lined up the ends of the rest of the boards along the line and drew a line down all of the boards so that I could realign them together during glue up. (See figure 2) This resulted in about zero wasted wood. I glued about 6 boards at a time together and put a large Bessey clamp across each end to ensure good pressure on the staggered ends. I then glued the sets of 6 boards together and it worked great. No waste.
Two questions are:
1. Am I about to find out that there is a flaw somewhere in my thinking and it just won't work like I think it will?
2. What do you do with all the small laminated pieces sitting around after a few cutting boards?
Thanks!
I have learned tons from you guys and gals!
Two questions are:
1. Am I about to find out that there is a flaw somewhere in my thinking and it just won't work like I think it will?
2. What do you do with all the small laminated pieces sitting around after a few cutting boards?
Thanks!
I have learned tons from you guys and gals!