Making a Cutting Board Without a Planer - A Lifetime of Sanding.
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- First attempt at making a cutting board. I don't own an electric planer so I had to do the leveling/shaping with various sanders and a router which took forever.
I'm happy with this as my very first cutting board, but a planer is absolutely next on my list of tools to aqcuire.
Can't believe you pulled the scrap out with the blade turning. Safety pays brother.
I had definitely turned the saw off but you are correct that the blade was still spinning down. For sure a dumb move that I would not recommend anyone try and wouldn't do myself these days. We all make mistakes and learn as we go, thankfully none had to be learned by losing a body part. This video is old and I was younger and dumber back then 🙏
How do you sand it so quickly? I started sanding mine during the Reagan administration and I about ready to turn it over.... #my_glue_ups_r_horrible
lol
I seal the bottom before applying the feet. Everything else is great! Thank you for sharing this.
Definitely a great tip! I started doing that on the boards I made after this one but this was my "learning curve" board 😁 Thank you for the kind words!
A tip i saw on another channel. Sprinkle some table salt over the glue once you have it spread out, it stops the pieces sliding as you clamp them. :)
Fantastic tip! Thank you!
Nice work, beautiful board. I HATE using my planer. AlwYs have to make the boards a couple inches longer and cut off the gouges. Anyways nice to actually watch a video on cutting boards without a craftsman using $20 g’s worth of equipment!!
Thank you, I appreciate the feedback! A big motivation for making this video was exactly what you mentioned, when I wanted to make my first cutting board I didn't have very many tools and every DIY video I found on RUclips had someone using thousands of dollars worth of equipment so I didn't feel like I could gain much from them. This video is certainly no DIY tutorial but I think it at least shows that you can do it without spending tons of money.
I'm hoping to make another soon with some better woods since I found a good source for them after making this video. Thanks again :)
I've been hot gluing extra long pieces of scrap wood along the two long sides. I then run it through the planer like that. The two long pieces take the snipe/gouges and I don't have to waste a bunch of expensive wood making my cutting boards an extra 3-4 inches long on either side. This link shows a picture of what I am talking about. thewoodwhisperer.com/articles/dealing-with-planer-snipe/. With a simple strip cutting board I suppose you could achieve a very similar effect simply by having two of your strips towards the sides extended out further on each side and then cut them off at the end. But that would only make sense to do if it were the cheaper wood.
extremely informative thank you so much!!
Thank you! I'm glad it helped 😁 I've been thinking about making a second version of this video with a few different options since this has by far been my most viewed video, but it's so cold in the garage right now I struggle to want to bundle up lol
I have some nice boards that are fairly straight. Might cut them down and do a cutting board bc what else is there to do during quarantine but sand lol
That's been my mentality for the last 2 months, haha. I just finished making a bread box with a mini cutting board out of leftover wood from my other projects 😁
3,900 hrs of sanding lololol loved that thanks
Haha glad you enjoyed that! I thought my hand was going to be numb forever after I made this video. That old sander ended up biting the dust about a week ago so the next time I do this I'm hoping it will be a bit easier.
I'm in the middle of this challenge right now myself. Hopefully the handheld belt sander I've got reduces my sanding time to 1939.5 hrs or fewer as opposed to a random orbit sander... my glue up took a twist so I'm looking at quite a bit of removal to get the wobble out.
Wishing you the best of luck! I never trusted my harbor freight belt sander because mine seems to love digging in but I'm sure it would be easier as long as you can keep it mostly level.
Tell me. what would happen If I just threw some countertop epoxy on it right about the time when you were about to start sanding? After all the glue was removed?
There's a lot of debate out there on this topic regarding the toxicity of epoxy and if it's safe to use like that. A lot of people say they don't worry if the food isn't hot and on the board very long, others say it's not safe no matter what.
I've personally never tried it on a cutting board but have done plenty of other projects with epoxy and I can say that it would look great and be a durable surface, it just may not be the best idea for a cutting board specifically.
How not to make a cutting board😂 It looks great though!👍
Haha you're not wrong! Thank you thought I appreciate it
How about using a hand held electric planer as a cheaper option to a full planer?
That could definitely work! I didn't have one available when I made this video lol
do those electric planers work well? Another option is a hand planer. I'm not really sure as i am a beginner.
@@carasmussen27 my experience with them has been hit or miss. They've worked well for me when they have a flat reference surface to guide them, but I haven't had a ton of luck free-hand.
@@carasmussen27 They can be made to work. There is a japanese ( i think) woodworker on here who made a jig for a hand held planer, he can then use it to flatten slabs etc. :)
What machine did you use to cut the ridges on top?
I used a router with a Roman or "Ogee" edge bit.
good work if I say so myself. what oil have u used?
Thank you! I used Mineral Oil (often sold as Butcher Block Oil) which is food safe. After that I followed up with a mix of beeswax and mineral oil to finish.
Why not use the table saw to get all boards around the same size first? Less sanding in the end right?
The boards were all the same size after cutting, the bulk of the sanding was excess glue squeeze out and leveling any movement. This was my first cutting board and I definitely could've done a lot of things better lol :)
Couldnt you use a hand plane to cut down the sanding time?
Absolutely, I just didn't have one at the time.
Now do an end grain board
It's on my never ending to-do list 😅
Lots of safety concerns here and a belt sander would speed things up a lot.
My cheapo harbor freight belt sander makes keeping things level very difficult which was the aim using the random orbital. I've since learned that there are better ways to do most everything I did in this video, but it was my first attempt, low tech and using a $0 budget lol
New to woodworking so I'm curious, are your safety concerns?
@@tmills341 I know this question wasn't directed at me, but my best guess would be the following:
1. I was wearing a hoodie while using my table saw. It was cold in the garage so I had it on, but generally speaking long sleeves around any moving machinery can be dangerous because if a sleeve gets caught or pulled into something you'll be seriously injured before you even notice or have a chance to react.
2. Kinda' inline with #1, but several shots made it look like I was reaching over/very close to the table saw blade. It was primarily due to the poor camera angles I had as I always try to utilize push blocks/sticks and keep a safe distance from the blade or make sure it's always fully stopped before moving around it, but that's not clearly represented in this video.
3. Maybe, possibly, when I was using my dinky router table and wasn't using push blocks? I personally don't find that to be very dangerous given how small and under-powered that particular table is, the fact that the bit was just barely above the table and that I was a safe distance from the bit while using both hands to control the board, but I know some people would find that to be unsafe. Routers are inherently dangerous tools and I personally find them to be the scariest tool I own so you should always be as safe as you can.
There may be something else that Christian saw but after rewatching the video this is what I could come up with. Ultimately woodworking is a dangerous hobby by it's nature and everyone should utilize everything at their disposal to be safe when doing any project, large or small. There are a lot of people on RUclips who do things that are or could be considered very unsafe and it's up to the viewers to make the choice on if they want to do the same thing or find a safer way to do it. I'm personally of the opinion that you can never be TOO safe when you're working with things that could injure or kill you, and we should all use PPE every chance we get.
@@ShopTherapy I tell people I still have all 9.995 of my fingers! Where is that other .005 of my fingers you might ask!? Well, it’s from my right middle fingertip and it’s somewhere down inside my jointer! I was jointing a large quantity of small sticks, not using “chicken sticks” as I call them, you may know then better as “push sticks”, went into brain dead, production mode, and wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing. It didn’t even hurt when I went into the cutters, it happened and was done INSTANTLY!! Resulting trip to ER. Attending Dr. said I was lucky, I didn’t cut all the way to the tip of the bone. If I had cut to the bone, it would have been necessary to remove my finger tip back to the first joint to salvage enough skin to close off the end of my finger! Today, I have a small flat spot, and some rather sensitive nerve ends, on the end of my finger.
My message here is,, PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU ARE DOING!! I was the safety monitor for my work group before I retired and I still got bit by a damn machine. These machines will not apologize when they hurt you! SAFETY MATTERS!
How about the rip fence and miter Guage being used in combo?
I hate clamping.
Haha! Just curious but why do you hate clamping? Just the frustration of things moving or making sure everything is tight?
@@ShopTherapy Oh no, I mean, I hate to do clamping, because I am not capable of. I am ok with the process 8)
Did you use oak for a cutting board?
I did, yes. However when I made this it was really more to familiarize myself with the process and see if I could do it with the tools/materials I had at the time. While I didn't intend to use this board for food I still sealed the pores of the Oak with a beeswax mixture to prevent unnecessary contamination from occurring with things getting in there.
Is oak bad for cutting boards?
@@rosihancock4 it is considered bad for cutting board due to how porous it is. It is better to use maple, walnut, or cherry
What was the blue can you put on first?
That was Naphtha, used to clean up the sanding dust without raising the grain of the wood again (it also evaporates which is nice lol). Not an entirely necessary step as there are other ways to clean the wood after sanding but it's always worked for me thus far.
@@ShopTherapy thank you. I am going to attempt to make a cutting board as soon as Santa's elf ( my hubby) helps me put together my table saw.