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Kyle Stiefel
10-06-2007, 12:35 PM
Hello folks,

Well this week I wanted to get some of my holiday gifts completed so I looked through my scraps and got enough wood for some end grain cutting boards. The woods are lyptus, walnut, bubinga, paduak, and purpleheart with some mineral oil. Sorry the pictures aren't that great but you can see my helper peeking her head out in one of them and go Rangers.

Have a good weekend.

Kyle

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Mark Engel
10-06-2007, 12:49 PM
Wow! Those are beautiful.

If I ever received a cutting board like that, no knife blade would ever get close! :)
Brian Weick
10-06-2007, 12:52 PM
Those really came out great Kyle - they look spectacular- somebody is going to get lucky this holiday season.
Brain
Gary Keedwell
10-06-2007, 1:06 PM
Wow, those are unique...don't know if I have seen anything like that.before...Bravo.
Gary K.
Ted Calver
10-07-2007, 12:32 PM
Most Excellent!! A great combination of woods and grain patterns...functional art..I love them!!
Bill Huber
10-07-2007, 1:26 PM
Man now those are really something, the grain is just awesome.

Could you elaborate on how you made them as to getting that grain pattern?
Jim Becker
10-07-2007, 1:41 PM
Those are GREAT, Kyle!! Very unique, too!
Jim Nardi
10-07-2007, 3:57 PM
It's hard to tell but how thick did you make them. Thanks Jim
Kyle Stiefel
10-07-2007, 8:49 PM
Could you elaborate on how you made them as to getting that grain pattern?

Bill,
All I did was do like a regular panel glue up with 3 pieces of wood and then put the long board on the cross cut sled and cut the strips to the desired thickness of the cutting board. You then just flip flop the pieces around until you find your desired grain pattern. It is simple and much easier then doing for instance a chessboard pattern.


It's hard to tell but how thick did you make them. Thanks Jim

Jim,
All the boards are a bit thicker then 1.5" and roughly 9" x 21". I have another long panel gluing up at this time for 3 more boards, just trying to crank out the holiday gifts.
Clint Winterhalter
10-07-2007, 9:06 PM
Wow Kyle,

Great Job. They are too pretty to use!!

Clint
paul wiser
10-07-2007, 9:39 PM
i agree. too beautiful to use!!. are these end grain bookmatches? can't quite get a good view. thanks
Christopher Stahl
10-07-2007, 10:43 PM
Yeah, those are pretty sweet!
Cary Swoveland
10-08-2007, 12:19 AM
Beautiful! What are the dimensions?

Cary
Zahid Naqvi
10-08-2007, 3:49 PM
Those look stunning, real nice work.
Cliff Rohrabacher
10-08-2007, 4:57 PM
Nice execution of interesting wood.
Jameel Abraham
10-08-2007, 5:21 PM
A unique take on endgrain cutting boards. Very nice.