I was in a bind and way behind coming up with handcrafted Christmas presents for friends and relatives. The shop renovation had dragged on, over budget and behind schedule. So, I needed something I could do quick, and not toooo expensive. I went to the hardwood store and bought $165 worth of red oak and soft maple. I already had some salvaged 1/2 X 4 walnut wainscoating that was too small to do much with except cutting boards or boxes.
Cutting boards are fairly straightforward so I won't lead you through all the details. SWMBO first said she liked edge-grain stripes better than end-grain blocks, so I made a few that way. Most of our family members have last names that begin with "W" or "M", so I was determined to work that in somehow. Once the relatives were done, I just played around with the leftovers. The plaid one with the dogs was made from the final scraps. This one turned out to be the favorite of The Missus, and we'll keep it. These are what we have left in stock, we already sent six out. So I ended up with about $10 in materials in each board. Not too bad . . .
Very nice work Andy. I am sanding on 6 end grain boards right now. I took a little break to check my mail.
Christmas gifts for my Dad's brothers and sisters.
I need to hang on to more scraps. Those are excellent. If you are selling any of these, I'd consider making some Chess boards. You could make full size and smaller sets, resaw the tops thin and glue them to the tops of boxes to hold the pieces. Or checker sets? Really nice work.
This is pretty unusual for me; I wouldn't normally make artisanal type stuff, but I gotta admit, it's been fun...most of what I'm doing I got from you guys!
Tell them to keep them out of the dishwasher!! :surprise:
Some of the ones I have given as gifts have never been used. They don't want to mess 'em up. Others use the heck out of them. Two have separated at the seams because...well guess? Dang dishwasher! I told 'em not to do that, but they didn't listen. :no:
That walnut is really black, I like those the contrasting colors are outstanding. So you do do woodworking! I thought you just made beer and chased bears.:laugh2::laugh2:
The second picture has me baffled tho, never seen a cutting board configured like that. Are those knife grooves in the face? Are the spacings uniform for a reason?
I was a bit worried in the cutting/assembly process that the Cherry and Maple weren't different enough to show in the finished board.
Yes, the Black Walnut is black... ;
The grooves are so you can cut bread with even slices... (joking!)
That's well done Dan. The purple heart is a nice touch. I like the look of purple heart, but I've never been able to get past the price of admission. Maybe next time . . .
You have some great ideas Andy. I like putting initials on the boards. It makes them special to the person getting them. If you don't mine me asking what price would you sell them for?
I made 16 boards for about $165 worth of wood, so that's a little over $10 each in wood costs. Considering the time spent, I could feel OK about getting $30 each for them, but I don't think many would sell at that price unless they were made to order.
I think this video has been posted before, but THIS will be my next cutting board project:
If anyone one wants to try playing Quoridor, here's an online interactive version you can try. There's no luck in the game...pure strategy.
file:///C:/Users/Dan.Dan-PC/Documents/DAN'S%20DOCUMENTS/QUORIDOR/Quoridor%20AI.htm
Dan - I don't have the option to remove it from my post - no edit option for some reason, but.....
I was being sarcastic - no one should be able to get to your hard drive from that link. They would need your IP address, then breach your router/firewall (I presume you have something in place, at least a router)
Geez, didn't mean to get Homeland Security involved
Thanks for the link, Stick. I found it interesting and the other information as well. I managed to trace the IP address and the router firewall password was extremely easy to defeat. Dan really should have a stronger password.
I've already save some of the photos...they should be good enough to get the stash keys without any pushback from Dan. All we will have to do is threaten to publish some of the home videos and were in like Flint.
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