Molynoox
Established Member
I've mentioned on here before that I am working on a cutting board for a friend and yesterday I went out and bought some timber for it:
-Large chunk of Maple
-Medium chunk of Beech
-Small chunk of Utile
My question is, can I mix end grain/face grain/edge grain together in a cutting board?
The reason being as I have a nice chunk of Maple and I would like to show off the grain on the face, I haven't planed the edge so not sure what that looks like.
Can I mix it up do you think? I'm thinking that Maple is really hard so maybe face grain is ok?
I also have some beech and utile - I want to mix a few together to create some colour contrast.
Here are the three bits of wood I bought:
Here they are against the cutting board bits I already have:
Here is what I plan to do as a sort of curved inlay, probably using the maple to contrast against the dark wood strips I already have (not sure if its walnut or mahogany... ):
Martin
-Large chunk of Maple
-Medium chunk of Beech
-Small chunk of Utile
My question is, can I mix end grain/face grain/edge grain together in a cutting board?
The reason being as I have a nice chunk of Maple and I would like to show off the grain on the face, I haven't planed the edge so not sure what that looks like.
Can I mix it up do you think? I'm thinking that Maple is really hard so maybe face grain is ok?
I also have some beech and utile - I want to mix a few together to create some colour contrast.
Here are the three bits of wood I bought:
![IMG_20231001_092446.jpg IMG_20231001_092446.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/ukworkshop/data/attach/148/148293-IMG-20231001-092446.jpg)
Here they are against the cutting board bits I already have:
![IMG_20231001_092441.jpg IMG_20231001_092441.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/ukworkshop/data/attach/148/148294-IMG-20231001-092441.jpg)
Here is what I plan to do as a sort of curved inlay, probably using the maple to contrast against the dark wood strips I already have (not sure if its walnut or mahogany... ):
![IMG_20231001_092502.jpg IMG_20231001_092502.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/ukworkshop/data/attach/148/148295-IMG-20231001-092502.jpg)
Martin