My favorite end grain cutting board pattern

[Dewayne Baker]

I Just Finish these beautiful end grain cutting boards. The overlapping squares pattern was a fun challenge. The boards are 1 1/4” thick and made from maple, cherry, purpleheart and wenge.

 

[Robert Horky]

Very nice, came out great. I, and maybe others, am interested in how you went about making these. Any in process pics?

 

[Dewayne Baker]

Very nice, came out great. I, and maybe others, am interested in how you went about making these. Any in process pics?

Yes, I will post them in a separate reply.

 

[Dewayne Baker]

Here some in progress pics and glue up diagram. Creating the squares was the easy part. The big challenge was getting it all glued up nice and tight. I decided to make a melamine platen with a fixed border and opposing wedges. I waxed the platen and used masking tape on areas I don't want glue. Don't put wax on the wedges or they'll pop out when you drive the next one. Ask me how I know....lol. You need to be very precise with your dimensioning and corner notch. My saw blade left a little bur in the corner of the notch and I had to clean them all up with a chisel. I added the outside triangles after the main field glue up and cleaned up squeeze out with a chisel.

 

[Brent Dowell]

Wow! Great looking board and great instructions! Thanks!

 

[Robert Horky]

great instructions, thanks.

 

[David Johnson]

Beautiful board. Great job in putting it togather. Instructions were well received. Maybe? I'll tackle this project. Need to find source for purple heart around here.
David

 

[Ryan Mooney]

Wow those came out really tight, and thanks for the walk through. Excellent work.

 

[Jonathan Shively]

Holy cow those are amazing! Love the jig to glue up. Thanks for sharing your secrets. Do the boards have feet under them or only raised for the pictures?

 

[Ted Calver]

Excellent work!!

 

[Jay Caughron]

Beautiful board. Great job in putting it togather. Instructions were well received. Maybe? I'll tackle this project. Need to find source for purple heart around here.
David

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Love that board and Thanks for sharing all the picture of assembly Dewayne

 

[Jim DeLaney]

Spectacular boards! ...And thanks for providing the instructions. I may try one sometime in the future.

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

Very cool, Dewayne! I've not seen that pattern before and I appreciate the explanation of how you did it.

 

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

I feel like I just watched a flying saucer land. Incredible work!

Alan

 

[allen levine]

wowser.......no, that gets a double wowser.....and Im definately going to make or attempt to make one, or two....but only going to someone special...seems like alot of time investment for that board

 

[Dewayne Baker]

Holy cow those are amazing! Love the jig to glue up. Thanks for sharing your secrets. Do the boards have feet under them or only raised for the pictures?

I had them on little triangles in the photo because they were still drying. They have rubber feet and wax on them today.

 

[Dewayne Baker]

Thanks for all the great comments. I really love this pattern too. Looks like I’ll be making a couple more. The cat is out of the bag now with the pattern and clamping strategy. Looking forward to seeing your version soon.

 

[Mike Stafford]

Here some in progress pics and glue up diagram. Creating the squares was the easy part. The big challenge was getting it all glued up nice and tight. I decided to make a melamine platen with a fixed border and opposing wedges. I waxed the platen and used masking tape on areas I don't want glue. Don't put wax on the wedges or they'll pop out when you drive the next one. Ask me how I know....lol. You need to be very precise with your dimensioning and corner notch. My saw blade left a little bur in the corner of the notch and I had to clean them all up with a chisel. I added the outside triangles after the main field glue up and cleaned up squeeze out with a chisel. View attachment 119206View attachment 119207View attachment 119208View attachment 119209View attachment 119210View attachment 119211
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Beautiful, precise work with an amazing result. Really excellent, Dewayne!

 

[Dewayne Baker]

Beautiful, precise work with an amazing result. Really excellent, Dewayne!

Thanks, it was a fun project. Looks like I'll be making a few more.

 

[bill kaminski]

Well done that,sir. Do you rip the notch from the full length, or from cut segments?