Guide 68

Chopping board

9 – 10 h · 4 days★★☆materials 40 – 86 €

A 400 × 300 × 40 board with an 8 × 6 chequerboard in maple and walnut or cherry. The fibres stand upright, the knife slips between them and stays sharp longer. Six blanks, two glue-ups, nine crosscuts and flattening the end grain on a router sled. The guide also has a simpler board of glued strips you can make without a workshop.

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31 pages A4 8 × 6 chequerboard dimensioned drawings shopping list

What's in this guide

Choosing species: why maple and walnut, not oak or spruce
Blanks to an exact section and a flat glued-up panel
Safe crosscuts of short pieces on a crosscut sled
A router sled — flattening end grain without a thicknesser
Sanding 80 → 240 with raising the grain
An oil and wax finish that is food safe

PDF, 31 A4 pages to print for the workshop · dimensioned drawings and illustrations · shopping list on a separate page so it can be torn out and taken to the store. You download it right after payment, access is for life.

Before you start building

This guide is informational material, not construction documentation or a professional assessment. Follow the instructions of tool and material manufacturers, safety rules and local building regulations. A piece built at home is not a certified product, even where the guide follows a European standard. Structures that carry people — beds, swings, decks, pergolas, children's equipment — should be checked by a qualified person before use. To the extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for the result of your build, property damage or injury arising from the use of this guide (Terms, section 9).