Ombre End Grain Cutting Board | Plus A Hot Wax Treatment 4K

be [Music] welcome back to the shop my name is jacob with the wood plank and in this video i'll take you through the process of how i made these two end grain cutting boards they're made from walnut cherry and hard maple these were a lot of fun to make and i hope you find this video resourceful and helpful towards the end of the video i'll share with you my recipe for my own board conditioner so stick around for that let's go make some sawdust this particular style is a gradient from a dark wood to a light wood otherwise known as an ombre board i start by cutting all of these boards to 24 inches long i want to end up with four panels to mix and match from and i specifically chose this piece of cherry because the sapwood's really going to help transition into the maple my goal here is to take those boards and start ripping them into individual strips keeping a nice variety of thin medium and thick material really helps with the gradient there are a variety of ways you could create this board this is just my take on it 137 strips of domestic hardwood with endless possibilities from there i'll run each piece through the drum sander this is a very time consuming process but vital to the glue up and overall quality of the finished product if you don't have a drum sander i would just run each one of these through the planer and maybe in the beginning of the build make these strips a little bit longer to allow for snipe [Music] [Music] [Music] anytime i'm working with multiple panels i like to stack them on top of each other this gives me an initial idea of how the final piece is going to look and if there's something that i'm not happy with it's easy to make a change now after everything's been cut sanded numbered and organized it's time for the first glue up i'm building these particular cutting boards in a landscape orientation here's a quick sketch i made to show you how different this design would look in a landscape versus a portrait you're essentially building the design horizontally versus vertically a brick style cutting board is a great example of how different a design can look between landscape and portrait i personally like to build uh brick boards in a landscape style but if you wanted to reference this idea a little clearer i would just go look at a few different brick boards here's a photograph of an ombre brick board that i completed not that long ago when the temperatures get below freezing the boards come inside [Music] on to day two and i'm gonna get these boards out of the clamps and flattened out well until the day i get a 20 inch panel through a 13 inch planer i'm going to go ahead and go old school so after each glue up the goal is to get each panel flat straight and smooth again so when your panels don't fit through the planer your work is a little more involved the easiest method that i've come up with is to just make a flattening jig here i'm using two pieces of oak and a little sled and i'll take a little bit off at a time and work my way down to a nice flat panel uh after that little sawdust session i ran all four panels to the drum sander to get them smoothed out i want this board to be two inches thick so when i'm cross cutting these panels i cross cut them at about two and two sixteenths that way when i move on through the next steps and i lose a little bit of material i'll still end up at 2 inches after everything was cross cut and sanded i laid out all the pieces for the final design and when i started this project i was going to build two identical cutting boards but at this point i realized it would be kind of fun just to freestyle one and just see what kind of designs i could come up with so i split the stack in half and turned up the music [Music] once i have my final design and all of my pieces where i like them i'll usually strike a line down the board this will keep things straight when it's time for the final glue up i think these boards are good examples of creating with a plan but no plan i knew i wanted to make some gradient boards but wasn't sure how it would translate creating in the moment is really my favorite type of building and making it's kind of hard to do with woodworking because you do need to plan ahead but there is a moment in every build where you can just freestyle and let your creativity take over [Music] [Music] after the final glue up we have to get things flat again and in my opinion the quickest way to do that and most efficient way is with a flattening jig the other alternatives might be going straight to the drum sander which would work but might be a little more time consuming and a little more wear and tear on the machine or if you feel confident enough to put your end grain board through your planer that would work as well but you'd be limited by the size of your planer with the flattening jig you can use any size board and you open up some new possibilities to different designs after the router sled we'll trim the sides up then we'll head back over to the drum sander because there's still quite a bit of smoothing out to do after the router sled i stick 80 grit on my drum sander and i do both sides until they're nice and smooth i think it's around this time during the build process when you can start to see your idea come to life and you can take a little moment and enjoy your creation because what we have to do next could literally ruin it within a matter of seconds it's time to put a juice groove on you want to try to keep all of your clear strips of wood on one side of the board and then try to keep the natural defects on the other side these types of details make a big difference in the overall quality and look of your finished product we're going to use the clear side for the juice groove and if you can't avoid having some natural defects on the top side of your board just try to organize them in a way where they're not in the middle of the board when i'm adding a juice groove there's just a couple of things that i try to pay close attention to and one is to take nice shallow passes you'll have more control over the router and you'll have a lot less burn marks the second is i use this rigid palm router and i find i have more control when i pull the router towards me instead of push it away so those are just a couple of things that have helped me now that the juice groove has been added and your heart rate has come back down it's time to add all the extra details i make a few different style finger holds and i try to keep in mind that these are going to be lifted and moved around quite a bit so the finger hold is very important it's got to be comfortable and i try to make mine fairly deep so your whole hand can grab a hold of the board not just the finger tip picking it up so whatever style you're adding to your board just keep in mind the functionality because that is an important aspect of all of this it interacts with somebody on a daily basis quality beauty and functionality those are the key items for me [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] because end grain can get so thirsty soaking your board is really the best option i'll do five to ten minutes two different times and then i'll just let them air dry [Music] so if you make cutting boards you probably make some kind of a board conditioner or a board wax this is essentially my recipe that i will go over with you my current ingredients for this include 100 food grade mineral oil carnauba wax a 100 organic beeswax and a essential oil lemon scent i use a four to one ratio between the wax and the oil so i'll fill this little mason jar up four times and then in a separate jar i'll do 25 percent carnauba wax and then 75 beeswax applying hot wax to your end grain cutting board has to be one of the best ways to protect it because the wax is in an oil form it's going to soak down into the end grain just like a sponge and the further down it can get the more protection it's going to provide so even if this board gets a little neglected in the beginning of its life and doesn't get conditioned or seasoned i know there's a little extra protection built in so this board should last a little bit longer before the first re-oiling and while i wait for that hot wax to cure i'll go ahead and batch out some of my own board conditioner [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] there you have it two completely different boards made from the same pile of wood i'm glad i went with a second version it really helped exercise my creativity thank you so much for watching until next time take care from the wood plank [Music] you

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Length: 20min 8sec (1208 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 08 2021