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I completed two maple cutting boards this weekend. These are end-grain butcher-block boards that hold up well to years of everyday use. Each board is small, about nine by ten inches, and has four rubber feet. They are designed for cheese, fruit, bread, or vegetables rather than for carving meat.

If you are interested in one of these, you can purchase one for $50.00. Send an email using the contact link and we can work out payment–direct or through PayPal. Interest in these boards will push me to figure out using PayPal to receive payments. I know it’s easy, I just haven’t taken the few minutes to do it.

It was fun to make these two boards after (finally) completing the Shaker tables for my wife. They use different skills and don’t take as long to produce, so I really enjoyed the process.

There was a good article in a recent issue of Wood Magazine that provided step-by-step instructions for building boards like this. This plan is great for boards made of a single wood or that have simple patterns that run the length of the board.

I have made more sophisticated boards using a similar technique. If you stack the sticks you can make any pattern you like and glue them up into a large block. Once the block is constructed you simply saw boards from it by slicing it like bread on the bandsaw. One of the benefits of this technique is that it’s possible to make several identical boards from each block.

–Larry