This weekendschunky cutting board no 1, part 2.
I got a late start Saturday and as if the vibe of the morning was following into the workshop, drama followed. This is the first time I've seen my miter saw bind up cutting anything. Typically it goes right through whatever you put under it's blade. The same figured grain also proved to be too much for the plainer as it too spit out the hard maple burnt to a crisp. After a lot of hang planning and a lot of standing, I resumed work on the first of five cutting boards. I decided on resawing the walnut to the thickness I wanted for the strips going through the cutting board. I manage to forget to tighten the band saw blade before I started cutting. Figured it out pretty quickly and adjusted to give myself more room for jointing. I ended up with an extra strip of walnut 3x a bit less than quarter of an inch. I'm thinking I may use this strip in some sort of bent lamination if I'm feeling adventures when i get toward the end of this project. I won't get to really see how this first glue up went until next weekend. Hopefully there is less drama then. A weekend of work in 3 minutes.
Last weekend I was tied up with work, and then under the weather. This weekend I went to visit the fine folks at Owl hardwoods. A few years ago I made a batch of hard maple and walnut cutting boards. This year I think i'm going to do a batch of thicker cutting boards and see if I can up the complexity a bit and raise the quality. This year I'm starting with a nicely figured piece of 6/4 maple with a lot of character, and a piece of 8/4 walnut. My next step was to rough out a basic plan in fresco, it's been a minute since I've used it so there was a bit of a learning curve to pick it back up again, but shortly i was up and running again. I was hoping to start work on it today but woke up with a headache. Next weekend I'll start the cuts on this next batch of cutting boards.
