This board is a beast!!

[chopsaw]

completely submerged over night in mineral oil, then buffed them with a cotton buffing wheel.

I finish sand , then spritz with water . Let that dry , then I hand scrape with a heavy duty razor blade and resand . The end grain boards soak over night , face and edge grain get a couple heavy coats .
After the oil dries , I rub 'em down with homemade board wax and hand buff .
The 2 cherry with maple pattern are end grain . They really soak up the oil and wax .

 

[forktender]

Rich,
Where is a good place to buy S.S. wood scrapers?

I have an old'ish acoustic Martin guitar , the last tech that worked on it put a decent gouge on the face of it. It should come out reasonably easy. He was a super nice guy, so I didn't want him to get in trouble with his manager, so I said don't worry about it, he was relived big time.
Years later I want to sand down the face then scrape it to thin the face down, to get rid of the mar, and to see if a thinner face will brighten it up a touch.

The old Martins had much thinner faces than the model I have, which is a D10E. It's not an heirloom guitar, so I'm willing to risk messing it up. I won't even remove the bridge plate, I'll used the scraper around it.
Then it I'll have a thin coat of nitro sprayed on it, or I might give it a hand oiled finish, I haven't decided yet. If the face turns out nice, I'll probably do the back as well. (It's worth experimenting with to me).

 

[chopsaw]

decent gouge on the face of it.

Is it scratched / cut , or is it a contoured dent ?
If it's dented , you might try a wet rag and a hot iron . That steams the damaged area and might cause it to lift .

(It's worth experimenting with to me).

If your set on thinning it down ,( doing the whole face ) you can get the card scrapers at any wood working supply , or on Amazon .

I would do the back first , and see how that turns out . If good , do the front . If you don't like it , leave the front as is . Back will hide itself if you're using it for display .

 

[Steve H]

Rich,
Where is a good place to buy S.S. wood scrapers?

I got mine from Rockler.

 

[forktender]

I got mine from Rockler.

Awesome, I have one 5 minutes from my house.
Thank you, Steve.

 

[Steve H]

Awesome, I have one 5 minutes from my house.
Thank you, Steve.

I'm glad I don't have one close by! That'd be bad!!!!

 

[Steve H]

That is a great looking cutting/ dough rolling board.
I'd love one, but shipping alone would kill the cost of having Steve build me one. I have a friend that builds custom cabinets, I'm gonna have to talk him into saving me his cut-offs to build a nice end grain board of that size. Back when I had access to a wood shop, I used to make cutting boards for family as Christmas gifts. Everyone in my family still uses the boards that I made them, when I had shop in high school.
(many yrs ago).

I need to sign up for a night school class, oddly enough they hold the classes in my old high school shop class room.


Nice craftsmanship Steve, if I start making boards again, I'm gonna steal your adjustable legs idea. Where did you find the legs, and do they come with the threaded female inserts?

The last boards my buddy made were end grain cherry boards, after he glued them up, and finished the surfaces he soaked them completely submerged over night in mineral oil, then buffed them with a cotton buffing wheel. Talk about a nice finish, I didn't even want to cut on it, it was so nice.
I still use it daily. It is 2'' thick I sand out the cut marks once a yr, and it will still last me a lifetime, and will be handed down to someone in my family when I'm gone. that is the beauty of these wooden cutting boards they will out live all of us, and will stay in the family forever.
They should be called "Forever Boards" You can steal the name if you'd like Steve. LOL!!!

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Here is the cherry board that I use daily.

Thank you! Not stealing my idea. I found the feet on amazon. If I get more orders for boards with them. Then I'll buy the tap and die set. And make my own.

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The ones on Bill's board are maple.

 

[ron50]

That's a mighty fine looking board and maple is a great material. The legs are a great idea. @chopsaw Those end grain cherry/maples are beauties too.
My brother in law made me an end grain walnuts board and it seemed the amount of oil that baby soaked up was endless.

 

[chopsaw]

it seemed the amount of oil that baby soaked up was endless.

Thanks for the comment . Yup , the one end grain board had a blemish on the juice groove side . Didn't see it until I was 100% finished . Thought about it a bit , then decided to " just sand it out " and redo the finish .
Clogged up 2 rolls of 120 grit on the drum sander , so that changed my mind . Lol .
So much oil and wax soaked in I couldn't even sand it .