Any woodworkers?

Read some more online about cutting board woods. Sources suggested woods harder than 1500 janka shorten the life of the knives. Explains why many stay with maple/cherry/walnut/ash/white-oak. Mahogany and sapele probably have a pore-pattern that is too interesting, like the rice-pore pattern in padauk, collecting food-bits too easily.

Anyone else do the routed-initials-filled-with-two-part-epoxy like my idea (delusion? LSD trip?)? Seems "System Three" does not declare itself "food safe" so may work because it is 2 small letters confined to one end of the board.

 

@wilcam47 ... no river table but I did make a TV tray from that piece of wood.

 

Very nice
Hard Maple, especially Curly Maple is my favorite wood

 

thats nice looking tray!

 

Dull empty "lack of a pattern" wood is just boring.

 

My favs , #1 Birdseye Maple, # Birdseye / Curly Maple, #3 Curly Maple, # 4 STK Hard Maple. Then there’s the Dark Walnut rabbit hole, I’ve seen some Curly Dark Walnut, just gorgeous.
High end gun stocks

 

To each his own, i love that spalted wood.

 

I meant I like it. Mono-color wood has its place, but that table is interesting and well-constructed.

 

I would proudly eat my evening meal at that table while watching Jeopardy! I currently use my coffee table that I recently finished.

 

Wheel ... of ... Fortune

I wonder how it is doing with the new host since Sajak retired ...

 

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

 

I think he meant that he liked it lol

 

Is it too late to suggest he just burn it out of shame?

 

I need more clamps.

 

That pattern should look very cool. I have never made an end grain board and was wondering how you planning on flattening it?

 

I have a drum sander that I use on end grain stuff.
If it was small enough to fir in my planer, I would build a scrap wood frame around it the same thickness and plane it. I usually use scrap 2x4s and cut them down to roughly the same height so it's planing the 2x4 and the board at the same time. That way it helps prevent tear out and/or flinging pieces out the end.

I could always use my router sled too, also with a frame if I didn't have the drum sander.

 

maybe 1 more clamp

 

I don't have a drum sander, nor a router sled. So, thanks for the tip on using a frame made of 2x4 and the planer. A drum sander may be in my distant future. I think my next big tool is going to be a lathe.

 

Nah, he deserves the shame

 

I need to stop being a tightwad and buy a nice sled and a big plunge router. My smaller routers are beat up