How to Make End Grain Cutting Board | Step-by-Step Guide | #woodworking #cuttingboards

[Music] in today's video I'm going to show you how to make this end grain cutting board and be sure to watch the very end of the video because there are several tips that you are not going to want to miss out on let's get started now an in-grade cleaning board essentially has the ingrain facing up instead of the long brain so if you've seen some other videos I made on the channel I've made some long grain cutting boards I've made some charcuterie boards all of those are long grain this one's a little bit more intricate if a long grain cutting board is a beginner cutting board what we're going to do today is more of an intermediate level padding board foreign [Music] [Music] right here we have our black walnut Maple and Cherry strips laid out I like to usually pick one color that will kind of be dominant or one species of wood that will be dominant for this one it's really kind of two I have more black walnut and Cherry and I love the two colors of those two types of wood a little bit of Maples the maple will kind of be like highlights you can also of course throw some exotic Woods in a cutting board like this I think it really really makes the board pop I've actually just reordered some exotic woods so I don't have any in the shop right now but for demonstration purposes I'm just kind of going on with this what I'm going to do now is mix up all of these boards into the order of the glue up now in just a second I'm going to tell you something very important about this glue up that will impact the way your final cutting board looks but more on that in a second [Music] what I did right here was I basically made as you just saw me saw me a perfectly symmetrical pattern just a second if you look at the pattern I just made we have black walnut cherry black walnut Maple cherry black walnut cherry maple Maple is the center and it's it's symmetrical based off this now what I'm going to do before the glue off before the glue up is I'm going to pull this piece of black walnut now you might be thinking whoa what in the world it's not symmetrical now that's how we want it to be it's gonna make sense later just keep watching if I explain it now I would not do good job explaining it and you'd be like huh but basically we don't want this to be symmetrical now we're going to go ahead and go into the glue up with type on three [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] now so far the process of making this cutting board seems like most any long grain cutting board because it really has we've cut our strips we glued them up we planed this down we made sure it doesn't have any Rock in it but what we're about to get into is probably the most important part of this video because what we're going to do it's going to seem like oh my goodness we're messing up the entire cutting board but that's what makes in-grain cutting boards um so valuable there's just a whole other step in the process of creating them but I really think it uh it makes it worth it so uh what we're going to do next I'm going to trim up some over here on the table saw and you're going to see me start to cut this board into strips perpendicular to the direction of our boards so we're gonna go ahead and do that now on table saw foreign [Music] [Music] all of these strips and so now what you'll notice is the end grain of all these boards are facing up so this is really we're starting to get a good idea of what this cutting board is going to look like now before we glue this back together what we're going to do is every other one of these strips where you're going to flip so I leave this the same and I flip this around leave this the same flip that around leave that one the same this is my favorite part of making these cutting boards same around same around the same if you get uh mixed up just look at the end remember how we left those ends asymmetrical so now what we have is black walnut cherry black walnut cherry black walnut Cherry Etc and it matches on this side as well quick pause and then we're going to keep going on this cutting board if you could hit the like button on this video if it's been helpful for you or if you've learned something I would really appreciate it I think most people just forget to hit the like button but it's totally free it isn't even subscribed to my Channel or anything like that it just helps other people find the video and it helps me make more helpful videos for you so like button it looks like this let's keep going before this glue up we're going to use titebomb 3 it's waterproof glue anytime you make a security board a cutting board anything that could come in contact with water just go ahead and just type on three it's a little bit more expensive but I think it's worth it and this is not sponsored foreign [Music] probably of making cutting boards well there's always sanding too but I'm basically getting all the glue or not all the glue but a lot of the glue off a lot of the squeeze out you want to have squeeze outs so don't feel like I put too much glue on necessarily but you don't necessarily want the squeeze out to dry on the board so this isn't necessary but this will make planing a little bit easier in The Next Step so I'm just like the glue's got to come off anyway so take it off while it's wet okay the tight bomb 3 has cured and I have taken this cutting board out of the clamps what we're about to do is plane this board down now some people are anti cleaning in drain I will say if you make very light passes with your planer if you have good sharp blades it should not be a problem you can also do this with a belt sander if you have about 20 years you can also do it with a drum sander I just don't have a drum sander so there's other ways to do this I'm gonna do this with the planer and it should work out pretty well [Music] foreign if you've never seen this before it probably looks like a really crazy setup what I have is this cutting board and I have it clamped into this jig right here now what this jig is going to do is allow us to cut a perfectly clean Edge right here because all of our edges are not none of them are straight essentially we have blowout back here the glue up is not perfectly even here so this is essentially going to allow me to reference this edge of the perfectly straight plywood to this Cutting Edge Of The Cutting Board here if you'd like me to make a video on this jig let me know and I can do that for you guys I'm always here to help so just let me know if you have questions about this but this is just basically a piece of plywood I have some clamps here that will hold the work piece in place while I run it through the table saw foreign so a quick recap of what you just did because this is important if you want to make sure your cutting board is square we use our jig to clean up one Edge then we reference this Edge against the fence to clean up the opposite Edge then using the same Edge the same long Edge we use our miter gauge set at 90 degrees to trim up this side and this side and just to check yourself you can take a square or a one two three block by the way if you want to know all the different uses for a one two three block click the video that's tagged right here but anyways I can make sure hey this is 90 degrees come to the opposite corner and see that that's 90 degrees and if I remember in Geometry correctly 90 degrees on this side and this side means that it is perfectly Square right here what I'm doing is using my palm router to put a chamfer on the edge of this cutting board I'm not going too deep just something to give a little bit of an accent and I'm doing this on the top and bottom of the cutting board we have put our chamfer bit on this cutting board and so now we can get into the sanding and finishing of this board since this uh planing came out pretty pretty nice I'm gonna go ahead and start with 120 then we're going to go up to 220 and then finally end with 320. after that you're going to see me go ahead and put the finish on this board then we're going to go 220 and 320 again to uh to knock down that grain and then we'll put one more coat of finish on the board for this finish I'm using the Watco Butcher Block oil finish this is the first coat and like I said we're going to sand with 220 and 320 and put a second coat on also I'm using a foam brush to put the finish on I think this applies finish very very nicely I'll link to this in the description one quick note about applying finish to an end grain cutting board is that it's going to take a lot more remember the end grain of a wood it's like a bunch of straws all facing the same direction and so it's going to suck that finish in much more in fact depending on how the second coat goes on I may even decide to apply a third coat of finish thank you so much for watching this video if it's been helpful for you if you could do two things for me first hit the like button and then subscribe to the channel I'm always bringing you more project ideas

Channel: Ben Grimsley Woodworking

Views: 40,956

Keywords: How, To, Make, End, Grain, Cutting, Board, DIY, Ben, Grimsley

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Length: 13min 1sec (781 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 02 2023