Thank you very much! I'm happy you're enjoying the videos.

Thanks…I made some mistakes while making the border, so I’m extremely happy it still turned out so good 👍

Thank you so much, I wish I had time to do more

Thank you, I really appreciate it. 😁

Thank you, I appreciate it

Thank you

Good luck!

Thank you…I had never tried anything like this before, so I was really happy with the results!

Amazing patterns, especially the border, I can't wait to give this a try!

Thank you

Thank you so much, I did actually make a video for the T-track…I’ll try to get it up by the end of the week. 👍

This has been in my kitchen for almost a year now and it hasn’t moved at all.👍

Thank you, they are called panel clamps, or 4 way clamps. You can buy them prebuilt from a few different woodworking stores. I bought a kit, and built my own (less expensive option). I made a video of the assembly process that I’m going to upload in a couple days.

It was 3/4” Baltic birch. It can be quite expensive these days, I was lucky to have some scrap I could use

Surprisingly well, it absorbed as much mineral oil as the maple during the conditioning process.

This board was 2 1/2” thick. It was a little too thick for my tools. In the future I’ll do 2 1/4.

Thank you for your help!

That’s why I just used it for a border, the food will only touch the maple.

I appreciate the concern….I’ve done some research on the amount of formaldehyde present in Baltic birch plywood, and I’m comfortable with using it as a border for my own projects. I’m not going to sell this cutting board, and this is not a how-to video….. just me building something I thought was cool in my shop. I do recommend that anyone building anything should do their own research when it comes to safety concerns. Also my wife thinks it’s too heavy, so it will most likely never be used.

The glue I used is food safe. The finish is mineral oil and bees wax. The plywood is made with glue that is not good for people, that’s why I only used it for a border.

The food shouldn’t really touch the border, but it’s also unlikely my wife will ever use it…so should be ok. 🤔

@@jonniewood Jonnie I believe that it is naive to think that food, or a slice or a chop from the knife, will not make it over to the edge. Plywood is very toxic with a huge amount of glue in it. I make cutting boards for a living. I also do laminated plywood sculpture. Combining the two is tempting but I would never use one. Consider it a beautiful piece of art but don't use it.

@@RossNanfito Yes, I watch videos where people make pepper mills out of spalted or ambrosia wood, in which they sometimes include epoxy resin or wood stabilizer, and then hollow it out to create an unsealed interior pepper corn compartment which may include insect parts and residue, mold, fungus and epoxy or other resin and wonder the same thing: "is this food safe?"

Huh?

Thanks!