Kaptan J.W. Meek
03-05-2007, 7:32 PM
Ok, I have to admit, this simple project is now in the scrap pile, probably because of my own stupidity..
I built a cutting board for a friend of mine. I used 1-1/2" strips of Hard Maple, 1/4 sawn Red Oak, Jatoba, and hard Cherry. I jointed the sides, planed the tops, drilled 3 holes in each strip for reinforcment rods, and glued it all up using Titebond III. I installed the 1/4" threaded rods added washers and recessed the holes tightened it all up and plugged the holes with pieces of dowl. It looked great.. I smoothed it out with my belt sander, and rounded the edges with the router, and was sanding it with 320 on my R-O sander, and it started to split. First the Jatoba, then the cherry. I thought the jatoba was a very hard wood, and wouldn't move, I was worried about the cherry, but I figured with the strips and the threaded rods running through it, I'd be ok.. Anyone want to tell me what went wrong?... The wood wasn't wet. It had been cut into 2x2 strips for months...
I built a cutting board for a friend of mine. I used 1-1/2" strips of Hard Maple, 1/4 sawn Red Oak, Jatoba, and hard Cherry. I jointed the sides, planed the tops, drilled 3 holes in each strip for reinforcment rods, and glued it all up using Titebond III. I installed the 1/4" threaded rods added washers and recessed the holes tightened it all up and plugged the holes with pieces of dowl. It looked great.. I smoothed it out with my belt sander, and rounded the edges with the router, and was sanding it with 320 on my R-O sander, and it started to split. First the Jatoba, then the cherry. I thought the jatoba was a very hard wood, and wouldn't move, I was worried about the cherry, but I figured with the strips and the threaded rods running through it, I'd be ok.. Anyone want to tell me what went wrong?... The wood wasn't wet. It had been cut into 2x2 strips for months...