The Woodshop Shed

Charcuterie Boards - Version 2 & 3

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


During my last week in AZ I roughed out 3 charcuterie boards and brought back to WA to finish. Can you believe it all 3 were identical in size 4 days ago. 16.5” long x 12.5” wide.Roughed the two Sapele, Maple and Padauk boards to the point of only needing sanding and finish. This included the routed out edges on the bottom side.The third board was laminated and thickness planed in AZ but not routed out on the back. It had strips of maple, walnut, sapele and a middle strip of padauk.My BIL had the exact Freud 3.25” x 0.5” deep cove bit that my AZ shop has. BIL has recently had surgery and said why don't you come here and use my router table and bit and entertain me during my recovery. So I took him up on his offer to mess up his shop (of course I would clean).Routed out the bottom of board 3 a bit at a time, when I was almost down to the full depth cut router starter making funny noises so I immediately stopped. Router had a screw lose its purchase into the router table edge. It tilted and cut deeper than desired. It made a mess of the end grain Cove cut.So I glued a backing board in and used longer screws and went back the next day cut the ends off with the bandsaw, re-routed the ends, and started to do the sides. Then had a large tear out in the maple. Triple darn.So ripped the maple off both sides of board 3, beveled each bottom long side. Final size 15.25” x 10”. I will probably put it in the community sale for a price that will pay for the lumber, say $20 and remake it.Boards are being finished with GF wood bowl finish. Bigger boards have two coat. Board 3 has one coat.These are going to be Christmas presents for our daughter and daughter in law. Board 3 was supposed to be ours for our WA home.

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