How to: Homemade Cutting Boards: Part 1

Gluing up an oak and walnut cutting board

I am lucky to work with to an old college friend at my job. We're just figuring this out now, but we both have a passion for woodworking and all things diy.

The past week we have been chatting it up in the cube about meeting up to make some hardwood cutting boards. Orion made a trip to Schutte last Wednesday to pick up some oak and walnut, and we finally got rolling this Sunday.

The cutting boards are probably going to take 3 days to complete, just because there is alot of gluing, which takes a night to cure before moving to the next step, but eventually we will end up with some sweet checker board, endgrain up, cutting boards.

Here is the progress so far.

Orion chopping up the wood to 13" strips

Gluing up the strips face to face

Multiple clamps keep things square

View of end-grain, which will eventually be the top of the cutting boards 

Oak and walnut contrast nicely