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Making these things is super satisfying.

Made a few as gifts


Made one for myself


Made one from scraps

Love it!

Sweet.

That scraps board is begging to be a charcuterie tray.

nightflameauto wrote:That scraps board is begging to be a charcuterie tray.

Yeah man, that's the idea with that one. I'm going to give it away as a gift.

Very nice !

Yes!

Beautiful!

They look so cool I wouldn't want to cut shit on them

My wife requested a charcuterie board for NYE and I had a lovely slab of Live Oak that was the right size.

thems lurvely! someday i gotta find me a good endgrain board- i have a boos block, but those are waaay prettier and likely way better for your knives!

These all look very nice man, what would you say is your total all in time per piece?
I've be absolutely loving wood working designing/building my sons crib so I'm going to be doing projects endlessly going forward probably.

K-Bizzle wrote:These all look very nice man, what would you say is your total all in time per piece?
I've be absolutely loving wood working designing/building my sons crib so I'm going to be doing projects endlessly going forward probably.

Making the actual boards took an hour or two of actually work and 2 days of time. Basically you glue the boards on edge, let that dry, plane it flat, cut it into strips and then do another glue up with the end grain sticking up. Once that's dry you plane it again and cut it to size.

The real time sink is sanding. End grain it the hardest part of the board and maple is a very hard wood. It took like 4 hours of sanding to get each board cleaned up.

Great chance for a podcast and a few videos. I don't mind the sanding

_ej_ wrote:

K-Bizzle wrote:These all look very nice man, what would you say is your total all in time per piece?
I've be absolutely loving wood working designing/building my sons crib so I'm going to be doing projects endlessly going forward probably.

Making the actual boards took an hour or two of actually work and 2 days of time. Basically you glue the boards on edge, let that dry, plane it flat, cut it into strips and then do another glue up with the end grain sticking up. Once that's dry you plane it again and cut it to size.

The real time sink is sanding. End grain it the hardest part of the board and maple is a very hard wood. It took like 4 hours of sanding to get each board cleaned up.

Great chance for a podcast and a few videos. I don't mind the sanding

How are you planing? Using your router?
I don't mind long periods of sanding either, theres something about it that just brings me peace. Got plenty of audio books and podcasts at the ready.

K-Bizzle wrote:

_ej_ wrote:

K-Bizzle wrote:These all look very nice man, what would you say is your total all in time per piece?
I've be absolutely loving wood working designing/building my sons crib so I'm going to be doing projects endlessly going forward probably.

Making the actual boards took an hour or two of actually work and 2 days of time. Basically you glue the boards on edge, let that dry, plane it flat, cut it into strips and then do another glue up with the end grain sticking up. Once that's dry you plane it again and cut it to size.

The real time sink is sanding. End grain it the hardest part of the board and maple is a very hard wood. It took like 4 hours of sanding to get each board cleaned up.

Great chance for a podcast and a few videos. I don't mind the sanding

How are you planing? Using your router?
I don't mind long periods of sanding either, theres something about it that just brings me peace. Got plenty of audio books and podcasts at the ready.

I picked up one of these bad boys for $700 a couple years ago
https://www.grizzly.com/products/grizzl ... ead/g0453z

You could setup a simple router sled with pole clamps which would work perfectly for final flattening of the board.
https://www.finewoodworking.com/?p=254242&preview=true

_ej_ wrote:I picked up one of these bad boys for $700 a couple years ago
https://www.grizzly.com/products/grizzl ... ead/g0453z

You could setup a simple router sled with pole clamps which would work perfectly for final flattening of the board.
https://www.finewoodworking.com/?p=254242&preview=true

Damn son you've got the fancy shit!
I've got a decent router so maybe I'll try that method sometime when I need it.

K-Bizzle wrote:

_ej_ wrote:I picked up one of these bad boys for $700 a couple years ago
https://www.grizzly.com/products/grizzl ... ead/g0453z

You could setup a simple router sled with pole clamps which would work perfectly for final flattening of the board.
https://www.finewoodworking.com/?p=254242&preview=true

Damn son you've got the fancy shit!
I've got a decent router so maybe I'll try that method sometime when I need it.

Yeah dude, my dad is heavily into wood working so he has helped fund some of the toys.

If you ever want any of these laser engraved, you know who to hit up!

wait wait wait ... some GGF Bros need to do laser engraved guitars like right away ! \m/\m/