We needed a downsized cutting board. I have been looking at this piece of poplar in my scrap bin for probably four years now and just haven't been able to let it go. I was 95% done trimming the end grain when the mechanism on my $15 home store block pane let go, again. I do not recommend poplar for cutting boards, this thing went out of flat the first time I washed it in hot soapy water. I am so far still very happy with the elastomer feet from the hardware section at Lee Valley. I have been running a set of four under the food processor for about a month now with no negative findings on our formica countertop. Finish on the poplar is just salad bowl wax from I think Clapham's. I am not going to pour pond water colored epoxy into the live edge thumbhole. When it cups hard enough I will have no problem chucking into the fire pit, after I remove the feet.
I also made a cabinet maker's sized sector. It is a proportioning tool to use with dividers. This one is about 21 inches long, the interval between each increment is about 1.6 inches. I about laid out the whole thing with just dividers, a marking knife and a pencil. This is also my first project with my new DX-60 block plane from Veritas. There is a learning curve, but both the block plane and the sector are tools worth getting know I think. I ordered all three of the 'hand and eye' books from Lost Art Press since I am about to make a bunch f furniture I will be stuck with for life. I was still in the Roman Numeral numbered pages at the front of the comic book version (By Hound and by Eye) when I was hooked.
I think I have too many pics for one post.
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