Fancy end grain Cutting Board, Maple and Black walnut Maple and walnut cutting board

[@shanesowell4124]

I applaud you for showing the mess ups and well used (and saw dusty) tools. You are a genuine woodworker, unlike so many on youtube with brand new tools and perfectly clean equipment. Thank you for sharing your experience and tips. The planning steps you showed are so important. Another tip to others, if you need truly repeatable cuts on different sections, don't reset your saw. Plan and do them with the same setup.

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

Thanks, I like to show the way building something really happens. Too many videos are perfect and we both no that wood working is difficult. Hope you don't make the same mistakes as I did. Take care and happy woodworking

[@shanesowell4124]

Oh, I have made similar mistakes in the past! Woodworking is a journey of learning, and any failure is just a learning experience. No one is perfect, and I wish others posting videos would show that like you do.

[@osvaldooliveiradesousa9099]

Good afternoon, my name is Osvaldo, from Brazil, I am an apprentice carpenter, your board is magnificent, but as I said before, I am an apprentice and for me there was one detail missing, after all the cuts and gluing of the parts, the cutting of the strips began and there was no pre-assembly, but rather the finished board was finished and the edges were placed. Since I am going to try to make one "almost" the same, I will have to test this final assembly. But the beginning was extremely detailed, thank you for showing us such a beautiful board.

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

Osvaldo, In the video I show cuttng the flat board into strips. After that take two strips and stack them on top of each other alternating the dark and light colors, glue and clamp them together. Hope this helps.

[@mikephillips2624]

Don’t think you should use the table saw with long sleeve shirts and lean across the running blade

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

Your right, sometimes I forget little safety rules like that.

[@russellfay81]

I attempted this pattern, but I tried a short-cut by cutting the three maple pieces (the parallelogram, the triangle an the odd polygon) as one! This was truely a mistake! There was no distinct maple parallelogram to mirror the walnut parallelogram. So to recover, I cut the parallelogram off the end before the second glueup, but the cut line wasn't obvious because the color and grains matched up to well (which is what made yours show up). So the only option I could think of at that point was to glue in a piece of walnut veneer I had laying around. This created a kind of pencil line border. And that worked fairly well. In fact, it actually looks really good! Thanks for the sharing your idea, and the instruction. Sorry I screwed it up, but I managed to recover and come up with something nearly, although not quite, as good!

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

Your idea to fix the mistake was really a good one, I have had to readjust my wood work many time because my idea did not work out very well. Give your self credit for trying something new and for ending up with a nice cutting board.

[@WOODWORKVEGAN]

Beautiful board, very nice work!

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

Thanks, give it a try its not a hard as you might think

[@alberthancock4237]

Nice design

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

Thank you

[@d.reidmorgan7531]

Great video; very useful as a tutorial for a higher end cutting board design!

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

thanks i try to make them useful to all

[@darrylbuckett5380]

I find it interesting that you are sparing with the mineral oil, as so many KZbinrs dunk them in a bath for 5-10 mins, but I do agree that end grain soaks up a lot of mineral oil. I always add rubber feet instead of finger grips as it leaves a nice shadow line, but I do like your 45 degree angle, it gives it a nice line. Cheers

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

To much oil and it will stain a table cloth.

[@tomleonard1589]

Nice job, i enjoyed this training class

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

Nice to hear that they are helpful. I hope your cutting board comes out great

[@bobfognozzle]

Use Titebond III. It it both food safe and water resistant.

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

This is an old video, but yes I do use Tightbond III now.

[@tschmath]

You make a beautiful board. I have one question. Why did you make the parallelograms out of two pieces instead of just one? Seems like a lot of extra cuts as well as extra glue work.

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

They are made up of a triangle and a longer piece with a 45 degree angle on the second piece

[@curtaarsvold9198]

Very nice getting bored the question I have is the long piece of black walnut with a 45° cut you made out of two pieces couldn’t it be made with one piece

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

it can be made with one, I was set up to cut it in two so that the grain would be more dramatic

[@curtaarsvold9198]

Nice cutting board the question I have is the long piece of black walnut with a 45 on both ends you made out of two pieces could it not be made with just one piece?

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

Yes it could but since i had already set up to the smaller cut I just continued with it to save time readjusting my saw.

[@curtaarsvold9198]

@@butchsbuildingblocks6711 OK thanks

[@glumberty1]

That's a nice design

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

Glad you like it

[@andyvanvoast8481]

Nice build. Can I ask you a question? Do you think the rockler cross cut sled is worth the price? Did you buy both sides? I've been tossing around the idea of grabbing one. Thank you

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

Andy, I only have the one side. If you are going to make segmented bowls and lots of odd angle cuts than it is worth the price. It does work well for any angle. If you plan on using it for standard angle cuts (45's ect) than get yourself a high quality chop saw.

[@JohnPaul-sg4bs]

I am surprised to see you using the original tight bond 1glue. It is my understanding that it is not food safe and not waterproof, which is why almost everyone else uses tight bond 3.

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

John, The bottle is an old type 1 that I refilled with type 3. But you are right , a good wood worker should always use type 3, I now have a type 3 bottle that I refill.

[@saltyoperator7435]

Nice board. But man just watching you with those loose long shelves over that saw blade made cringe.

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

Things have changed since I made that cutting board, now I don't wear that coat because of the lose sleeves. But thanks for thinking of my safety.

[@koalafan1576]

That's a nice looking cutting board. This is the first video of yours I have seen. I just have one question. Are you a veteran or do you just like wearing the Army ACU top? I'm a disabled Army veteran so I'm curious.

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

I am a vet, served from 1981 until 1991.

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

I was in US Army also. Here's to you and the men you served with. I am also injured physically and mentally from 6 combat tours

[@d.reidmorgan7531]

Why not use Titebond III?

[@butchsbuildingblocks6711]

It is Tightbond III, i just have been buying it by the gallon and refilling the smaller bottle. I now have a new bottle that is tight bond III for the videos