Making Your Own Cutting Boards

Apply the wood glue and spread it evenly using your glue brush.

Making your own cutting boards. Wordsnwood art mulder 155 310 views. Once it is lined up with the cut line draw a line along the opposite side of the scrap wood on the stump. Hold the pieces of wood together. Make sure every wood piece is cut exactly and smoothly.

The last 3 pictures show the in progress cutting board for this instructable. Anything from alternative cuts of wood glued together to a frame design like this one from wesley inglis which includes. This step is optional but it will make it easier to grip and hang your cutting board. You will need one square smooth side to place against the table saw fence when cutting the boards into your 1 1 2 cutting board pieces.

You can use a square to check your cuts and make sure they re 90 degrees. Lay out the cut pieces and start thinking about what kind of design you want when you re making a cutting board. Glue the cut pieces of wood. 3d cube end grain cutting board duration.

The jointer should be set up to take off approximately 1 16 of material on each pass. Best of all upon completion a cutting board is a project that can be proudly used as a sturdy workhorse in your own kitchen or given as a holiday treasure to friend or loved one. How to make a wood cutting board assemble wood. Jazz up your cutting board with a curved insert wnw 17 duration.

This shows how i ran the glued up cutting board through my tablesaw and squared up the board. The first two pictures show a different cutting board i was working on previously. Next make all the pieces approximately the same width. For old hands making cutting boards is a gorgeous way to showcase a beautiful piece of lumber or to hone and highlight a complex technique you re trying to perfect.

Choose the best edge of your board and begin creating the edge using the jointer. I set my table saw to 1 7 8 a little wider than the smallest piece of maple and ripped all the boards down to that size. Glue board center together. Apply a bead of glue along one side of center piece of wood image 1.

Clamp boards in place using two pipe clamps to press them. First make sure wood isn t warped is cut precisely and is smooth. Use the 5 8 inch drill bit and drill a hole through the wood plank at the mark. Measure and mark 1 1 2 inches from each side of one of the corners making a plus sign.