OLD ROUGH Ash hardwood Transformed into a beautiful Charcuterie board PRIZE

in this video we're going to transform this nice piece of old Ash that I cut down with a friend into a dried meat board I'll dried meat board that just doesn't sound right ah yeah charcuterie board charcuterie board is what it's called it is going to be much better than a dried meat board this is a nice piece of crotch Ash you can't really see the figuring in here but there is a lot of patterning in the wood so when this is all prepped and cleaned up I think it's going to look really good as a charcuterie board and on top of that we're going to do some laser engraving in this as well so stick around thank you charcuterie boards make excellent gifts and it's even better if you can do some laser engraving on them as well the one that I'm making today is for the fun fair at the kids school it's going to be one of the prizes that's raffled off and it doesn't look like much right now but when we clean this thing up it's going to look fantastic first thing we need to do is take the spark off foreign [Music] both ends of the board are checked they have these cracks traveling up a few inches so we need to remove those few inches [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] when I cut this from the log I used a chainsaw and I obviously didn't do a great job because the piece is pretty warped so before I put this through the planer I need to deal with that so I'm going to go around with the marker and mark out all of the spots that I want to remove material [Music] and the method I'd like to use today to rough flatten one side is to use the ads and more than anything else it's just because I enjoy using it but I think it'll work well here it does remove material really quickly foreign [Music] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] this is kind of a half organic shape so what I think I'd like to do is use some of that shape as the inspiration it actually works really well functionally for getting your hand underneath so we'll say that this is the top and I need something that wraps around the end as well makes it a bit more organic and I can also deal with this straight edge here the straight ends as well so we'll have something that looks kind of like that that is also beveled on the bottom and to remove the bulk of this material I'm going to use this really nice Hatchet [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] I do need to address some of these edges I'd really like to get a consistent look so I have a bit more material to remove here and for that I'm just going to use the draw knife [Music] [Music] so the edge here transitions from a little bit of a flat to razor sharp so I'm just going to take this and blunt that edge a little bit foreign [Music] I was going to do the final sanding with the orbital but I had a closer look and there's a little bit of grain tear out on this side and on the back side as well so instead I'm going to switch over and use the belt sander with 100 grit sandpaper and just take this down a little bit get rid of that tear out foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you all the setting is complete on the front and back and the side as well and it's looking and feeling great you can see this nice grain here is just going to pop when we apply that final finish I do want to turn my attention to the back because I I would like to get set up to do some laser engraving both at the edge here and probably towards the center I think it'd be really cool whoever gets this in the end can bring this back to me and if they'd like some custom laser engraving added maybe in this area or wherever they can bring it back and I'll add that for them before I go ahead and attempt to do some laser engraving on this material it is really tough I think it's a good idea to get set up on the item stack X20 Pro [Music] so this is the test just to see how the depth would turn out and how dark that engraving would be and I think this is pretty good there is a little bit of residue left over you can just use some alcohol and clean that off this more porous area it was able to go a little bit deeper and the more dense area it was a little bit shallower and if you haven't already make sure you subscribe [Music] I don't know if you guys have experience with staining charcuterie boards or cutting boards but finding a stain that's food grade is actually kind of difficult so this is instant coffee and it's pretty cool that it was able to stain this well I think for this particular project I'm going to opt out of doing that I'm not sure how that's going to turn out with all the different grain that I've got it might accentuate some of the grains that I don't want so that may be a good test for a future project if you've got experience with this let me know in the comment section below what you use for food grade stain let's go ahead and see what this looks like when I apply some oil this is cutting board oil this is what I'll be using thank you [Music] that turned out perfect I couldn't be happier with that if you're curious this oil this says walrus oil it's not made from walrus it's made from coconut oil beeswax mineral oil and vitamin E so that will soak and penetrate into the wood I'm actually going to do two coats of this on the final product and I have another product as well for the top coat foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] coats on the top of this oil cutting board oil this is what the Finish looks like and there's a little bit of a Sheen to it and now we just need to wait 24 hours until we can apply that final top coat wax and buff that out and hopefully we get a little bit more depth and a little bit more Sheen as well I'm finally ready to put the wax on and I have the same walrus oil wax this is for cutting boards beeswax coconut oil and mineral oil are the ingredients those are the same ingredients in the oil that made me a bit curious as to how much more protection the wax is going to offer than just the oil so I have the sample that I've created both sides have three applications of oil and the oil has penetrated quite deep into the grain maybe about 3 8 of an inch 10 millimeters into the grain and I've applied wax just one coat of wax onto this side so I have some tea really well steeped coffee really well steeped and I have some cups which I'm going to put ice into and allow condensation to form and we're going to see how well these two stand up against each other versus these stains [Music] [Music] and now all we have left to do is wait and I think two hours should be enough to see the results foreign [Music] I can see a difference on this side this is still beaded up quite a bit this looks like it's saturated in to the grain a little bit more as far as the water goes the Grain on this one is the wood on this one's fairly light it's really tough to tell so let's take these off and I think I made a bit of a mistake on this one that t went right around and it probably went around it went around the bottom [Music] and I'm going to let this dry and we'll come back and take a look at the final result this version here did provide a little bit more protection you can see these are a little bit darker than this one and they're a little bit more spread out as well but they're still stained if you guys have experience with doing non-toxic coatings on boards like this let me know in the comments I'm interested to find out what you do and what other options there may be out there that are better than this let's go ahead and get the final wax on the charcuterie board instructions say to apply it and then let it set for 15 minutes it says let it dry but I don't really think this material dries so let it set for 15 minutes and then buff it out I have already done the bottom and the sides we'll say it does smell really good it smells like beeswax [Music] oh [Music] okay it's been about 20 minutes time for the final buffing and we'll see how this looks [Music] hey I'm pretty happy with the result that wax actually looks good it feels good it smells great all we have left to do now is try it out [Music] so this board does a great job of displaying all of the most expensive cheeses and I think overall it turned out really well I'm pretty happy with it and I especially like this area with the figured grain so if you guys found this video helpful and you enjoyed it make sure you like the video and subscribe and take care everybody we'll see you on the next one [Music] [Music] oh [Music]

Channel: NeedItMakeIt

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Keywords: Cutting Board, Woodworking with hand tools, Charcuterie Board, How to make a Charcuterie, How to laser engrave solid wood, laser engrave with Atomstack, Atomstack X20 Pro, Diode Laser Engraving, Food safe finish, How to use hand tools, Cutting wood with hand tools, How to make money woodworking, DIY, workshop, woodworking, weekend project

Id: LPyZl1_DHKQ

Length: 20min 9sec (1209 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 10 2023