The Woodshop Shed

Teak circular cutting board

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


I was walking through Lowes looking for some thinner pine I could rip into quartersawn for use in shaker box bottoms when I came across a stack of 15” teak disks individually shrink wrapped. I bought a few to see how they might do as cutting boards. I found the center and attached the center for my bosch circle routing jig, put a core box bit in the plunge router and made a few passes. There is a small divot where the center came loose because it was held down with carpet tape. I ended up putting some strips of gorilla tape down on top of the center which held it for the rest of the 2nd pass.Sanded the disk with my ROS with hand sanding the juice groove up through to 220 grit, raised the grain with a misting of water and let it dry for a few days. Then sanded up to 400 grit and coated with 2 coats of walrus oil board oil 24 hours apart and then waxed it today with walrus oil board wax.I'll probably pick up a few more in the next few days as it was pretty quick to route, just kills my hands after a while sanding the groove but they should do well at craft fairs.It would probably have been easier to do as a face turning on a lathe but my midi lathe only has a 12 in swing over the bed.

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