So I just picked up this 12"×6"×10’ maple beam at an auction today and had to chop off two feet of it to fit it in my car. I’m thinking of making a couple end-grain carving boards for friends with what was cut off.

I’m tentatively thinking of just slicing it into 2" cookies and gluing them together, but I’ve never seen a cutting board like this that wasn’t a collection of like 1" pieces glued together. Is there any reason not to use larger pieces when gluing up a cutting board? Thanks in advance

This is the face that was cut today, feels bone-dry

  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I was at an American festival here in France last week, and there was a stall selling ghastly glued-together cutting boards. It’s not something you see here normally.

    I’m convinced Americans are missing huffing leaded petrol fumes all day so now they’ve taken to consuming vast quantities of adhesive scraped from their chopping boards to ensure their daily quota of brain damage