30 - How to build a Walnut Cutting Board in an hour from offcuts & scrap

[Music] hello everyone my name is James and today we're going to build this cutting board I would like to start by thanking all of my patrons over at patreon and of course all of my viewers so this project is built from basically a bunch of scrap pieces of lumber off cuts and cabinet doors I had to take apart that were of no general use otherwise almost everybody has a stack of off cuts and boards in their shops if they can turn into a cutting board these make great gifts and this is a project that's extremely easy there's only about an hour total build time in a project like this and here's what I came up with today a stack of walnut offcuts I've probably got enough to make ten more of these but we're just going to build one today after cross-cutting everything to length I think I cut everything to about 21 or 22 inches then I'm going to rip it down to a width that is basically as thin as my my finished piece which I think was about an inch and a half wide you might even be able to see here some of these have a polyurethane finish already on them they were from some kitchen cabinets I built they came from the doors that I accidentally built the wrong size I cut the doors apart and I saved these things I figured you know one day I could use them [Music] some of the pieces were really rough on one side and I had to joint them down before I could rip them to width instead of having the cutting board all one color I decided to put some accent colors in it this is maple here if you decide to make a thin cut like this a bandsaw is a good choice if you want to use a table saw you can do that as long as you're comfortable with the cut you're going to need something like this micro jig in order to make that happen though so they can safely drip a thin piece of wood on the other side of the blade and this board is wing'd a I thought this would be a nice addition to the cutting board as well [Music] if you get a tool or push block like this micro jig gripper they have an attachment to it which will allow you to grip boards on between the fence and the blade I think standard is a quarter-inch and you can buy this little thin green attachment I however have here on it which lets you go down to about an eighth of an inch micro jig does not sponsor me I just happen to like their tool but I will put a link in the description in case you're interested and this is my second youngest daughter Kavita she's joining us in the shop today this is actually going to be her cutting board so she's going to lay out the boards for us and in a pleasing pattern and of course my youngest Tsai the photo bomber there she had to get into that scene looks like they're wearing the same shirt today as well and my middle daughter they're Maya on the left okay so it looks like she's come up with a pretty good pattern here we pre planned a couple of different things and this is what she liked it doesn't take much to accent to cutting board just a couple of stripes of something of a different color and it really makes a big difference in the overall look of the board now we've got a head back over to the jointer and I've got to get some of that polyurethane finish off that was on these used pieces that came from the cabinet door and since its cub does project we're going to make her do most of the work today [Music] [Music] once that's done it's time for the grew up and I guess if you use as much glue as we do it takes three people to accomplish that and this is the quickest easiest way to glue up a cutting board or any project it takes a lot of glue I set the board's up the way I want to see them in the clamps then we just kind of lay them down flat one at a time apply the glue roll it out brush it out whatever you need to do and then you can stack them right back up it's best to kind of keep them sort of straight here that's super critical I suppose because we did cut everything an inch or so longer than what we actually need our final length to be but if you keep them straight that helps a glue up this size will really have to be done in two steps you can't really spread all of them out on the clamps so we spread out half glue them put it back together then we'll slide that half back and spread out the other half glue it and then we put the whole thing together and clamp it and there you have it lots and lots of glue that's the only way to put one of these together I also wanted to mention that tight bond three is the very best glue that you can use for a cutting board as the highest bonding strength and it is the most waterproof of the tight bond glues I know that type on to says that a cutting board is a recommended use but since tight bond three is more waterproof I always choose that in fact for all of my projects I use type on three a lot of people ask me why I choose tight bond three over the other two and there's three reasons actually firstly it has the highest viscosity which means it runs a little bit less it also has the longest open time so I've got more time for glue ups and it has the highest bond strength of the three and you can see here in addition to lots of glue I like to use lots of clamps it's very important to squeeze all of the excess glue out when you're clamping these things together that gives you the highest strength so I don't usually bother trying to clean the glue off when gluing up big projects like cutting boards I just wait till it's all dried set up and then I used a paint scraper and scrape the bulk of the glue off not even all of it here because a couple of light passes in the planer will take it off fully using a planner has another benefit basically when I do the grew up I don't have to be so concerned if the board are all the exact same height during the grew up as long as I can clean them up at the end with a planer if you don't have a planer then you want to get the board's as flat as you can during grew up so that all you'll need to do is sand the surface so a lot of clamps and a lot of cramping pressure sometimes puts a little bit of a dent on the edge of the wood so I like to joint that off before I continue and then it's time to cross cut the piece to exact length what I'll just use my chops off for this but what I will do is I will cut it very very slowly if it's cut very slowly you can see that the cut is crisp and clean as long as you have a sharp blade of course the faster you make a chop saw cut or a compound miter saw cut the rougher end it is and the more splinters that it has but if you make the cut very slowly you can see the touch is very clean you've probably seen cutting boards with a groove around the top I think in the industry they call that a juice groove and my daughter Kavita wanted that so we decided to put that in the bit that I'm using here is called a core box router bit it's basically just a half circle and it cuts that groove like that I will put a link to one of those in the description and taste that something you're interested in looking at and we just have this stop setup on either side I'll slowly lower the board over the cutter at the stop on one side and I will move it over until I hit the stop at the other side and lift it up slowly that way we have a nice clean cut you we also decided to put a 3/8 inch radius round over around the edge of the cutting board this can also be done with a handheld router it doesn't need to be on a router table I just put it there because that's what's most convenient for me and I think their dad the next feature to the board and if the juice groove didn't come out exactly perfect with your routing you can typically hand sand that into shape and then I'll just stand the whole outside surface of the board all the way down to about 220 grit before I apply the oil finish the edges I'm just going to knock down by hand I wanted to leave them square but I didn't want them as sharp and there's a preview of what it looks like rough before any finish goes on it I think the next step is we're going to put some rubber feet on the bottom of it so it doesn't slide around we have to pre-drill the holes for the feet and you can get these feet at just about any hardware store or big-box store and I'll put a link to those in the description too I think it cost about two dollars four pack of four but one thing that is important is they just come with regular screws they're called bumpers regular screws are not good enough for a cutting board so you need to spend a couple of dollars and buy a pack of stainless steel screws that way they'll never rust or corrode since it's going to be in a wet environment and for the finish we are just going to use mineral oil so we'll do a few coats of food-safe mineral oil until no more will absorb in and we'll come back with a coat of mineral oil and beeswax at the end to condition the board and that wraps up the project [Music] you you

Channel: Kings Fine Woodworking

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Id: Rdv8jDcdZt8

Length: 12min 35sec (755 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 01 2017