Workers Of Wood

Nice idea for a Large Round board. I might be able to cut the juice slot on my router table. Without a sander that large, it would be tricky getting it flat, but could be done.

Bushwhacker

Bushwhacker wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:58 am I might be able to cut the juice slot on my router table.

free hand plunge and a circle guide...
less chance of the groove going wonky...

Good idea, I would have worried about that.

Bushwhacker

Build a sled or skis for a router and use a bowl bit to level it then sand smooth. It'll be plenty flat enough for a cutting board. To make the board round I might use a circle jig and router or a circle jig and bandsaw but a circle jig needs a center hole which you would have to patch on the top so I would modify an edge guide to do the groove. I made a sketch to show the general idea. You add some rounds or half rounds of dowels to an edge guide spaced out enough so that they will ride the edge of the board and be stable. If I was going to do a lot of this I would use roller bearings instead. If you have a look at my topic in jigs on how to make an edge guide, the rounds, half rounds, or bearings would be mounted onto the extension plate added to the clamp bar that clamps onto the rods. http://workersofwood.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=721

In the sketch I made the jig is a piece of ply with the half rounds attached to that. This would work too except that the distance of the groove to the edge is fixed unless you make slotted holes or multiple holes to attach the router.

Ever hear of portable,handheld belt sanders? I often wondered if putting feet on cutting boards could cause them to break? Do they use cleavers anymore. A good whack with a cleaver cutting bone might buckle a long grin cutting board over time. This one will make a good decoration on the kitchen wall like most of the ones do that are given as gifts.
Herb

Router table or circle jig? Either way would work. Just personal preference. I would probably use the router table. I can raise the bit without removing the work piece on my router table.

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:55 pm Ever hear of portable,handheld belt sanders? I often wondered if putting feet on cutting boards could cause them to break? Do they use cleavers anymore. A good whack with a cleaver cutting bone might buckle a long grin cutting board over time. This one will make a good decoration on the kitchen wall like most of the ones do that are given as gifts.
Herb

I wonder about the feet too. Not just snapping it but contributing to warping too. I would also use a belt sander unless the glue up was excessively uneven. Even at that a cutting board doesn't need to be dead level. If it's close enough you can't eyeball it it's good enough.

A portable belt sander first across the grain will flatten a board fast, with a course belt. Then turn and go with the grain,or diagonal, with smaller grain belts to smooth out the grooves made by the course belts. If it is way uneven to start, then of course hand planing is the way to go first.
Herb

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 5:24 pm of course hand planing is the way to go first.

a smoother used at a skew angle to the grain.......

Stick486 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 5:51 pm

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 5:24 pm of course hand planing is the way to go first.

a smoother used at a skew angle to the grain.......

Or a scrub plane. It's on my list of wooden planes to make. Maybe I'll grind the iron for that and make two wooden bodies for it, one as a scrub plane and the other as a coving plane.

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:55 pm A good whack with a cleaver cutting bone might buckle a long grin cutting board over time.

this is a cutting board, not a shopping block....

Chop,chop,chop, chop,chop,chop,chop,chop,chop,chop,chop,chop,chop................
Herb

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 10:18 am Chop,chop,chop, chop,chop,chop,chop,chop,chop,chop,chop,chop,chop................
Herb

That may have been one chop too many..."the chop that broke the camel's back"...?

Stick486 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:16 am

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:55 pm A good whack with a cleaver cutting bone might buckle a long grin cutting board over time.

this is a cutting board, not a shopping block....

What''s a shopping block...? Is that where the shopping mall is...? Down a couple of blocks...? SNOOORK...

Hop Sing used to chop,chop,chop, vegetables with a cleaver.
HErb