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Archive for December, 2007

Cutting Board Tutorial - Stage II

OK, it’s the day after Christmas and I finally have the time to write the next tutorial post on how to make an end-grain cutting board.  When last we visited, I said that the next step was to calculate the number of times to rip my two boards to make the strips needed in the [...]

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Cutting Board Tutorial - Stage I

Before we get into the actual work involved, let me say a little more about equipment. 
Although the table saw is central to making cutting boards there are other useful tools.  It’s possible to make a cutting board with only a circular saw and a router, but you’ll have a harder time getting good glue joints [...]

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I got into the shop for a while this afternoon and began work on the long promised–and I hope still awaited–photographic tutorial about how to make an end-grain cutting board.  This first board will be very simple.  I am only planning to use a single species of wood–Black Cherry as it happens–and I’ll make the [...]

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