Misc. Projects: Cutting Boards, Trivets, Cubicle Shelf

Cutting Boards

Christmas season aka Cutting board season. Just wanted to post some pictures of a few things I've made for record. Construction was very similar to the old cutting boards but now I have a few better tools for the job.

One of these will be in my kitchen, the other one will be sent up to Minnesota to live with my Aunt.

After I posted those to insta/facebook I had a few people interested in purchasing one, I already had made some extra cuts of walnut/maple so it was pretty easy to slap another one together. I was out of Padauk so I had to pick some more up and this time it was a lot more orange than the last batch. It came out nicely and has a pretty awesome look to the face grain on the edges, almost flame like.

I had run into some burning issues when putting the juice groove on the maple in the boards above, but slowing the router down by a large margin helped with that big time... it came out much nicer and more exact this go around.

Trivets

I forgot about having a secret santa event this week and my giftee wanted stuff for her kitchen, so I slapped together some trivets. 

Took some spalted maple (sometimes called Ambrosia Maple) planed down to about 1/2" then cut into a bunch of 3/4"x7" slats. I kept the pieces in order as I wanted to put them back in the same order that they were in the tree and my piece just happened to be the right width.

Assembly was pretty straight forward, layed them out upside down using some 1/4" ply as a spacer and then used Cyanoacrylate glue (aka super glue) to put the bottom rails on. With it being CA glue I didn't really have or really think to take pictures of the process

Finish was just some danish oil as these will see some heat you don't want any sort of film building finish like a Poly.

Some really pretty colors popping out of the spalting 

Cubicle Shelf

So I didn't get too many pictures of this one either as I whipped it up in an afternoon and it was pretty straight forward.

Figuring out what size it needed to be

 And this was the next photo I took... basically it was just a piece of scrap tiger maple I had from the knife block I made. Made a few miters and used my spline cutting jig to add some walnut splines. Made a little bubinga shelf and put a shoulder bolt for a coat hook

Prefinish dry fit

 Finished. Used Waterlox which I'm still not completely sold on personally, I probably don't have enough patience for it or something since people RAVE about it. It really makes the woods look nice but I always end up with a streaky finish. It also really yellows maple which I really don't like.