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This is the process I use for building an end grain cutting board like the one below. I made this using maple and cherry. I started with 2 pieces of maple and 2 pieces of cherry. Each piece was 3″ x 30″ and approximately 3/4″ thick. You can use thicker boards [...]

I am making four pen boxes, two from hickory and two from oak.  I find it more efficient to make a production run of a number of boxes than just a single box.  These four boxes took me two hours to make, not including the finishing.   Short of breaking child labour laws you can’t make [...]