It's great to have students making projects that they can give away as Christmas or Chanukah gifts. So the usually holiday class is either Instant Gratification Woodworking, where we make amazing "quickie" gifts, or the Advanced Cutting Board class, where we make cutting boards in steroids.
Can you guess which one is running right now?
This end grain board might be the all time favorite one we offer - the colors and patterns (or lack of patterns!) make it truly a unique board - one you'll never find in a store.
This board takes a village.
It takes three times as much wood as a normal board, and we rely on the fact that everyone in the class cuts and preps wood pieces to share with each other. We mix everything together, so that each student's board has pieces of everyone else's boards... it's quite a group project.
Because it's an end grain board that we run though the planer, we have to glue a sacrificial 2x4 on the back end of the board, so that the vertical wood pieces are supported and can't chip off.
It's complex, with no repeatable pattern, and you can tell by their faces - they're pretty damn proud.
We snuck in a simple Domino cutting board, too!
We'll be making two more boards, and one of them is extremely cool. I'll be sharing a new technique that's life changing for our projects.
Stay tuned!
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