I just started this project but thought I'd post a couple of photos before it is finished. This will be a round end grain Black Walnut cutting board style Lazy Susan about 18" diameter and 1.5" thick. I cut and milled all the stock Friday and Saturday we glued up the sticks. Before we started glueing I drew a layout in CorelDraw so I wouldn't waste any precious Walnut.
This is the board for the project - 4/4 rough, 12" wide, a bit over 8' long. The specification is for all heartwood so the little bit of sapwood on this board will go on other cutting boards or projects -
Here's the layout -
All the pieces glued up for the night. We used Titebond III even though it isn't a cutting board, just a Lazy Susan, mainly for the longer open working time. That's a lot of sticks to glue up if they start tacking right away!
And I had an opportunity to take an artsy shot prior to glueing the sticks together and I don't like to pass those up -
I probably won't have time today - busy day at church - but next I'll take these out of the clamps, surface lightly on the drum sander, then cut into strips about 1.6875" which should allow me a nice 1.5" finished thickness.
More later!
David