End Grain Cutting Board from Scrap Wood | Build It | Ask This Old House
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- Ask This Old House general contractor Tom Silva and host Kevin O’Connor create an end grain cutting board from heart pine scrap wood
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Time: 4-5 hours
Cost: $20 (if scrap wood is used)
Skill Level: Hard
Tools List:
Surface planer [amzn.to/34v0sNl]
Table saw [amzn.to/2Uyg0LF]
Clamps [amzn.to/2ZC0tAg]
Miter saw [amzn.to/2zZbqMY]
Cutting track [amzn.to/2PQGYPT]
Circular saw [amzn.to/2zWYuY0]
Router [amzn.to/34lEM62]
Round over router bit [amzn.to/2LuU1Bc]
Cove router bit [amzn.to/2Lv5Irt]
Power sander [amzn.to/34Dgo02]
Shopping List:
Wood glue [amzn.to/2zYr3V2]
Paint brush [amzn.to/34qPSXu]
Mineral oil [amzn.to/2ZE2prJ]
Steps:
1. Choose scrap wood that’s at least 2x12. You may end up using 2-3 pieces of scrap wood.
2. Use a surface planer to ensure all pieces are a consistent thickness. This is a loud machine, so wear hearing protection.
3. Use the table saw to rip the board into 2” strips.
4. Realign the boards back together for gluing. Before gluing, flip the boards to alternate the grain, avoiding warping.
5. Flip the boards once and use wood glue to make a line across each board.
6. Use a paint brush to fully coat the board with the wood glue.
7. Flip each board back and push the glued surfaces together. Clamp the boards together to allow the glue to set up. Wipe down any excess glue on the surface. Let it dry for at least two hours.
8. Unclamp the boards.
9. Run the glued assembly through the surface planer again to make sure each board is even and flat. It may take several passes on each side.
10. Put a stop on a miter saw 2” from the blade to ensure each cut is exactly the same.
11. Square up the end of the assembly with a thin cut using a miter saw, then make the 2” cuts using the stop.
12. Flip the boards so the end grain is visible.
13. Realign the boards and mix up the end grain pieces so it’s not a uniform pattern. The joints should also be staggered.
14. Flip each board on its side and put on another layer of wood glue. Once again, use a paint brush to even out the coat of glue.
15. Flip each board back to ensure the end grain is on top.
16. Clamp all of the boards together along with two scrap pieces of 2” x 4” on each end. These scrap pieces will prevent chipping on the suface planer later.
17. Wipe away any excess glue. Let it dry for at least two hours.
18. To square up one side, use a cutting track and a circular saw.
19. With one side straight, true up the opposite side with a table saw.
20. Run the board back through the surface planer, taking off just a small amount each time to flatten out the board. The 2” x 4” on the ends will prevent chip out.
21. Using a miter saw to cut off the extra 2” x 4” attached to the edges.
22. Using a router and a round over bit, round off the four edges of the board.
23. Using a router and a cove bit, add an edge detail around the entire top and bottom portion of the board.
24. Sand all sides using a power sander until smooth.
25. Use a food grade oil such as mineral oil to coat the board. It will take several coats of oil to fully penetrate the grain, and the oil should be reapplied occasionally as needed.
Heart pine is only available from reclaimed and salvaged sources. For this project, it was originally purchased from Longleaf Lumber [www.longleaflu...].
To glue the boards together, Tom used wood glue from Gorilla Glue [www.gorillatou...].
Tom used a roundover router bit to ease the corners and a cove router bit to dress the edges of the cutting board. These bits are available at home centers and woodworking supply shops.
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My dad buit that same bench when i was. A kid i still have that. Same bench to this day. love the old house shows
Tom is about as skilled craftsmen as I've ever seen ! The guy can fix anything! Great video enjoy you too Kevin !
Frankie Gambino Even if he couldn't, his 50 person staff would.
Loving that table saw cut at 7:00!
That was a big No No
When you’re as badass as him! Ain’t no thing! Been watching these guys since their first episode.
$800 vacuum hooked up to a $200 thickness planer. Love it!
It's nice to have some real pro tips, not just someone showing of their sponsored tools. I never knew there was a purpose, beyond aesthetics, to alternate grain patterns.
hmm.. it seemed at 5:55 he explained just that!! that the only reason he swapped and offset the grain patterns was because "he didn't want to see [the original pattern]", to me implying aesthetics only. did I miss something?
Nice timber and good (correct) advice with the sacrificial timber when thicknessing end grain. Shame about the profile around the edges. Sure makes wiping the board down a pain. Square edges may look boring, but they are the most practical shape for kitchen benches and cutting boards.
Great project and demo but I agree with you on routing the profile edge and it making it harder clean the board. Over time gunk with accumulate in that profile unless you are a fanatic about cleaning those grooves everytime you use it. I'm a professional cook and it bummed me out when he did that step and intruduced 8 edges that are now harder to sanitize and do nothing to contain meat juices. Health departments do not like nooks and crannies where pathogens like to hide.
The grooves also decrease the surface area on a fairly narrow cutting board. Function over form always gets my support when it comes to tools like cutting boards.
The board looked like crap
tykebe did it though?
Can u use any non treated lumber?
@@eg6199 it did indeed.
I'm an end grain cutting board maker. Overall this video is useful for teaching people how to make one. A few dangers I see, a few flaws, and a few things unnecessary. But thats OK. I would still caution against using wood with cracks in it tho. I wouldnt suggest reclaimed lumber for end grain cuttong boards for that reason. I would rather fill those cracks with a food safe epoxy so that food debris can't get into the cracks and become rotten. I'm glad you showed people that they can indeed use a cheap straight bladed planer for end grain boards. You just need to do very small passes.
Love the patina the reclaimed wood beautiful.
I certainly hope that washing it isn't considered "too wet". My mother's been wanting a large board to make dumplings on, you can't really find a cutting board as large as she wants, so I'll need to make one. This video was very informative. Thank you.
Buy a pastry board
Tommy is an old school craftsman with expensive power tools.
That's A hell of risk running that thing through the planer.
That’s a great looking cutting block 👍😁
I have an old piece of pine barn wood, about 14 inches wide, when planed is absolutely beautiful. I would love to make an end grain cutting board out of it.
I would stick with tight grained hardwoods only.
Gorgeous cuts from that festool oscillating mitre saw
If any miter saw is oscillating, RUN FAST.
I need that Festool miter in my life
Its $1,474 on Amazon. No thank you, ohh and free shipping
I put boards into planer on daily basis. never had a problem.
if you follow fev simple rules and you're careful everything will be ok
And good mashine is definitely advantage .Those bench top models are more risky. in sence that you can damage your mashine.
Learn how to spell
I love these guys!
Just ... Wow!
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the way he ran that end grain through the planer. He had and caps on both sides of the board when he ran it through and took shallow passes. I make furniture for a living and that includes cutting boards of all types and I have been making end grain cutting boards like this for years.
Can u use any non treated lumber
@@barrettready1713 I am not an expert so, take this advice with a grain of salt. But, no, not just any non-treated lumber is good for a cutting board. Oak for example is not usually used because it has a porous end grain. You also need to look out for allergies because some woods might cause allergic reactions in some people. I have really never seen anyone use pine in a cutting board before so I was kind of surprised by this video. But, maybe since it is a tight grained pine compared to pines it is a good wood to use. From what I have seen, some common woods for cutting boards are Walnut, Hard Maple and Cherry but I'm sure there are several more. Here is a great site that I use to help find the characteristics and how to identify the different types of wood - www.wood-database.com/ . Hope this helps
The large pores of pine are problematic on end grain boards, because they collect grime and debris like hungry hippos. Does long leaf pine not suffer from this?
WOW Just wonderful, i like them all. Do almost the same from hard wood
Why wouldn't you use the table saw instead of the miter saw to cut the 2 inches?
nice cutting board
With 5K in tools you too can make a cutting board out of wood you cant purchase anymore :)
Pichner you can make an end grain cutting board with a $60 circular saw. so you point is invalid.
Tire of lazy people claiming they cont do anything unless they have a lot of tools. All you need is a saw, chisels, hammer, hand plane and a drill and you can make just about anything.
if you can't do it with 300 you can't do it with 5,000
Aah pichner, you don't need to do $20.00 economics. If there is a big profit in home woodworking a lot of the unknown or underemployed would be rich and busy.
gregre052 there are 6 million job openings in the u.s. a big portion in construction work, but its hard work and people think they are too good for hard work.
Isn’t pine too soft for cutting boards? Or can you make exceptions on hardness to a degree when it’s an end grain cutting board?
Yes pine is too soft. Maple, Cherry, Walnut, Padauk work well.
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That was a beautiful job good thank you for the showing of a butcher block
Soft wood for a cutting board??
Came here thinking the same thing
That's a very good looking board but there is one thing that bothers me about it is that being grain up it could only be used for slicing. The first time you use a cleaver or heavy knife to chop on it you will split it like firewood. I would have put a thick horizontal spline around the perimeter of it to lessen the chance splitting it
You're mistaken, it isn't just suitable for slicing. There's a reason why real butchers blocks are all end grain. It will not split under a cleaver.
so um...aren't you supposed to use a jointer before planer?
On long pieces yes but on such a short piece there's no point, especially if you're truing it up at the end.
End grain through a planer? Yes you can as long as you are using a helical cutter head. Makes all the difference in the world. The only thing i found interesting is using pine for an end grain cutting board. Is long leaf pine harder than construction grade pine?
best thing to make with scraps of teak
I don't know about teak but some heavy tropical woods are toxic and there is not much chance of cutting on a board without getting some particles in your food
cool vedio cain't wait see do bowl or hollowed out christmas ornament. keep sake box.
When I first started working at a cabinet shop I made an endgrain cutting board out of some leftover walnut and maple that we had. I did just about everything I saw here, but ended up ruining the blades on the planer. After I had paid and replaced them, I was then told by my boss that you could never plane anything endgrain, you have to build a sled and use a router. Can someone tell me what I did wrong to ruin the blades? Or was my old boss lying to me to get me to pay for a new set of blades? I definitely didn't over-do the "bites" the planer took, I usually do 32's anyways
Your boss was correct. They likely didn’t have issues here as they were using softer wood, or maybe they just got lucky. But typically a drum sander is the tool to use for end grain boards
That detail edge you put in the end why. It looks like a box lid now.
I wouldnt call that scrap wood but still lots of good points to keep in mind.
Nice but should be alittle wider just saying lol
Table saw much easier than miter saw
What kind of oil are u using boys
How reactive is that exterior wood glue? The board isn't going to be heated, but won't one get trace amounts of glue in their food?
D Raphael gorilla glue is non-toxic and safe for use on cutting boards.
Don’t you like glue? Mom used to add a bit of glue to lasagna so it brings me back.
Amazing
Uh, no explanation how you got the 2xs off the ends before you did the router work?
Cut them off. I've seen it done in a few videos.
I've been wanting to get into even a dumb little project like this but then get discouraged as everyone has jointers and planers...
For plain boards, a good quality hand-planer and some time can get you pretty close to what the power tools can get you. I'm working on a live-edge slab coffee table, and even though I have a planer, this won't fit in it, so I had to flatten it by hand with a hand-plane.
For end-grain stuff like this, a router sled works, and routers are cheaper than jointers and planers.
If you have a router, you can make a sled and mill it flat that way. There are a few cutting board videos showing just that.
I've never seen TOH aay to do something dangerous but planing the last step of end grain wood can be extremely dangerous.
Nice
That's beautiful!
Is that Pine very hard?
Just of curiosity - is using three different saws is necessary? I feel like a table saw, or a circular saw would suffice.
The saw choices gave more accuracy, and ease of cutting. A circular saw would be tough to get accurate repeat cuts with. They could have done it all on the table saw, but it would have likely needed a crosscut sled.
For the "End grain through the planer?" or "So many things wrong here!" comments, just shut up... shhhuut up! Passing end grain through the planer is fine as long as you make shallow passes JUST LIKE HE MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO.
He's taking very small cuts per pass and it has feed wheels. It's fine.
So many things wrong here...smh
Agreed. I'm an end grain cutting board maker. It's OK as long as you do small passes... Which the user has 100% control over via their depth handle lol
Shallow passes and a spiral cutting head. Straight blades can blow that board up. And it's exciting when it happens!
Edge grain cutting boards are better than end grain, since it absorbs less moisture and less prone to warping & cracking. However, the best cutting board is cut from a single block of wood.
guys had a fight during this episode.
why u say that ?
I could use that cutting board
Watching Tom and Kevin reminds me of the old Animal Kingdom show with Marlin Perkins and his sidekick that didn't do any of the important stuff. Great video guys and a great cutting board. One question, though. Is the pine hard enough to stand up to cutting board work?
Something.....Something.... end grain.....planer....
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I love that cutting board. You got any for sale.
Mineral or linseed oil for a cutting board?
mineral food safe oil is best in my book.
I think this episode should call I Am Rich XD
How did he remove the sacrificial boards?
Wait they didn't show removing the end caps. Did they just cut them ?
In most videos I've watched they just knock them off with a mallet, but idk if that's the right way to do things. I don't know much if anything about woodwork
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I have a lot of white oak that I would like to do this with. Is it an acceptable wood for cutting boards?
No, its open grain structure is not good for cutting boards. it will harbor more bacteria
I don't buy that. When it's saturated with oil, or even better, urethane (which is what salad bowl finish is), and then treated with oil/wax regularly, it's MY OPINION that you're fine. I've made them and see no issue with them.
@@russellkPhoto I believe you are thinking of red oak Russell. It is open grain but white oak is closed grain, although I am not certain if that includes end grain as well. That, along with it's incredible density and toughness is why white oak was used in "Old Ironsides" Look it up. The British cannon balls would bounce off of it. Much harder than English oak.
@@BeaulieuTodd I looked up urethane and it said it was a carcinogen!? I would stick to mineral oil or melted paraffin wax for the end grain. Salad bowl finish is usually just mineral oil and orange oil with maybe some beeswax as far as I know. Peace.
@@terry2346 Good info Terry! I'll check it out!
.......I don't see it as aesthetic to have random patterning.. Is the glue classed as food grade?..
....is use of burls form trees a thing for making coffee tables in America ? The burls are the huge wart type growths that happen in some trees , they can have interesting qualities.
Don’t they have to account for snipe while planning or no?
The two “sacrificial boards” on the end will get the snipe.
Oh ok thanks
Is that enough glue?
Sir ,tell me how to straight a 6by3by3 inches long wooden plank
I don't know.. by the time I get the wood buy the glue plus the clamps, and lets not forget the surface plainer ..Whats my total?
You don't need a surface planer to make this, it just saves time. But, if you can't afford to buy the wood, you have no business doing woodworking projects. You should probably get an education and get a better job instead of wasting your life on youtube.
@@MAGAMAN You sir are a savage
Also you will need to learn how to use the tools
why do you cut the wood if you have to glue the wood back?
They explained it in the video...
My floors are made out of heart pine I didn't know it was rare
I'm trying to make a chopping board/bench top for my little island. I need some tips of what kind of wood, thickness and a method. If someone could help me out that'd be very helpful!
If you are going to use it for chopping it should not be built end grain unless you build it at least 6 inches thick or use a deep horizontal spline most woods split easily on the end grain. If you don't want a board that thick then run boards long grain and save the extra work of using splines
@@jamesburriss1086 Do you even know what a spline is?
how did you get the scrap boards you glued on the ends off?
With a saw
Are you guys willing to sell that cutting board? I would like to buy it if possible
I love watching a Festool operate.... But I love owning my crappy ass craigslist tools better LOL But... Why wouldn't they be using the lambo of tools? Wouldn't you if you could?
That's really cool. Would you be able to do the same the with pallets. Oh and what else can you use as a sealant, I know you can't use clear coat.
Would you eat anything that was prepared on pallet wood?
At 9:00 you can see at least half a dozen checks. Not really what people want in a cutting board.
Never put end grain board into a planer....... geesh!!
There is no problem he was Just skip planning
what is that white sheet you put down when you are glueing?
Ross Rawlins looks like a standard drop cloth
wax paper
Pine is unsuitable for butcher block construction. The first board seen had many holes from nails or screws & knots .... the board later surfaced planed did not. Never surface plan end grain (plainer blow-out). Leave outside board rip 1.5x wider than field laminations to minimize wood waste when glue-/side rip. The finished product in this video does not comply with food contact surface requirements (perhaps the oil does). Other than that it nice video.
probably this is the only video I don't like. I will never use any glue for my cutting board.
So many critics.. jeez. I was really happy to see honest wood working where the craftsman uses his tools in a real world style. Then a pile of festool and other crap showed up and I lost interest. =\ hand routering the corners with a round over all sketchy but then swapping to a fancy pos for the cove.. bleh.. idk
Great chopping board. But too much work to make. As a DIY I'll make a much simpler and cheaper one out of a scrap wood..
I still love watching their videos..
They did use scrap wood, how'd you miss that part?
This is a neat video, but unfortunately I think it is quite misleading for new woodworkers (like myself). I saw this video and I just thought I’d go out get some hardwood, buy a planer and I could make beautiful cutting boards like this. Not really the case. A planer does not make boards “flat” it makes them parallel. So if one face isn’t flat first, then a planer does not make it flat. You need to joint one face first with a jointer.
Buy a router, it's cheaper.
Make yourself a sled, and joint away.
Generally thats true but if the board is thick enough (maybe 1.5 inches or more...can't remember exactly) then it's fine to put it through the planer first. At a certain thickness the rollers won't be able to bend the board when pushing it down which is of course what causes the faces becoming parallel instead of flat. But yeah in this case in the video i definitely would have used the jointer first.
How many times to re-coat it with the food grain mineral oil to be exact?
depends i only needed 6 coats, and each month i recoat it once with mineral oil. done a end grain cutting board couple years back and it still looks great.
as much as the wood will absorb. the oil is there to prevent water from foods getting into the wood and warping it, causing it to rot, and keeping bacteria from growing into the wood.
ok thanks
thank you
keep coating it until it stops soaking in. Give it time in-between coats when it start soaking in slower.
Am I the only one who cringed when I heard pine and cutting board in same sentence? 🤔
Who cares how old it is, it's still pine...
@@mikevcampbell Pine is soft. The grain may not close up after it's cut. It also has resins that can transfer to food.
I have heard pine flooring in my old house.
I'd pass on making a cutting board out of Fir.
Why end grain? And whats the deal with end grain through a planer, I am a total noob.
OOOHBILLY end grain through a planer can explode. End grain is more durable and dulls knives less than edge grain since the grains move out of the way of the knife
Also end grain doesn't concave as much because the cutting instrument sinks into the wood rather than cutting it
no riving knife on table saw? also when he grabs the board he's asking for kickback
Never ever drive a car unless wearing a seatbelt.
Same thing as your comment.
Do you need to worry about whether or not the glue is food safe?
Scott Grier yes. Titebond 3 is suitable
Ideally you should.. I surprised they didn't mention that..
yes you need to make sure its FDA approved
You can check on the label or call the manufacturer direct, but I think most PVA glues like Titebond III are considered approved for indirect food contact.
most kids usually eat glue...so its safe lol
I just need $100,000 dollars to have a setup like this. Sweet.
There's less than $5000 worth of tools involved here.
Relax.
@@acerjuglans383 Far cry from the $99 saw bought on sale
Mineral oil is a byproduct from the manufacture of gasoline. Is this safe to ingest?
Yes. Many things we use are made from toxic substances. Soap, for example, is made from caustic lye, but it undergoes a process to make it safe. Same with mineral oil. It comes from petroleum (which is used to make gasoline and stuff like plastic) but it's been heavily refined to be very pure.
you can get mineral oil at a pharmacy. its sold as a laxative. its safe.
Water is a byproduct of hydrogen and oxygen, two highly flammable gases.
Is this safe to ingest?
you started with a beautiful piece of wood why not finish sanding and seal properly. you make an easy job hard. We also used very hot paraffin wax to seal our cutting boards.
Any one else notice the planer has a trifroce.
Huh?
Over done
Dremel and sandpaper.
A Dremel? For what??
Can I use all your saws please? I'd like to build a cutting board
Great. I just frigged up.. Cut it all into blocks first. DOH..!
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Just had a board explode in the planer. Don’t do it this way. In fact, you guys should probably pull this down.
I guess I'm just jealous because I can't afford all that machinery but what really grinds me is these things being sold at "craft" markets at ridiculous prices with the credolous public "oohing & aahing" about the "mystique" of it all and the sellers humbly lapping up the adulation - laughing all the way to the bank.
Why are you putting "craft" in quotation marks? Is this not a craft project?
You just said you can't afford the tools, and then complain about the prices of completed projects. You obviously don't understand the cost of tools and tool maintenance, the cost of raw materials, and you most certainly think that people should work for a dollar an hour in order to sell their work to people like you.
How much do you work for?
I thought Mineral Spirits was toxic? Should we be using a 50%/50% mix with mineral spirits?
They're not using mineral spirits; they're using mineral oil. It's a totally different thing.
And mineral oil is a byproduct from the manufacture of gasoline. I’m just wondering how safe that is.
mineral oil