I'm not claiming it's a good idea but it's something I wanted to try and had to give it a go! I ended up doing a lot of voiceover in this video which isn't what I usually do, it just worked out that way! :)
Ambitious project. I am a fan of bamboo skewers instead of screws when securing two pieces of wood. I never thought of a end grain cutting board. Excellent video and process. You have done it again Professor. Keep up the excellent work. Thank you for sharing.
Started watching this and initially thought this guys off his trolly, was sucked in and saw an Amazing result, great job. Totally impressed by his skill and degree of patience.
My husband is a wood worker (in his spare time). He makes furniture and also likes smaller type projects as well. I will show him your video, but I doubt I can get him to make it. However, I think it looks very nice and it is unique. Great job :)
I know you're just joking but for anyone curious about the actual ratio it's closer to 90% (by volume). Hexagonally packed circles cover about 90.69% of an area. The exact formula (assuming no squishing of the wood) to calculate the fraction of circles within a given area is: (π√3)/6 ≈ 0.9096 With the wood being squished together, I'd guess the board is likely closer to 95% wood.
@@ChazAllenUK "And hence less circular?" Yes. They become closer to a hexagon in shape. Perfect hexagons don't leave any gaps. The packing ratio of the bamboo skews is likely better than the ratio for cylinders since they're squished into hexagonal shapes. At 5:20 they look more like hexagons than circles.
I just finished making one of these for myself. Used supermarket-bought skewers, and they were a lot thinner than the ones in the video. Board was also a little bigger. Ended up using 4,500+ full skewers, each cut into 5 pieces, for a total of 22,000+ pieces. Took several weeks to get it all done, but totally worth it. Looks great, very solid. Would recommend that if you do this that you use thick skewers, and more glue than you think. It was a little bit flexible before I put the edging on.
Such patience! I mostly appreciated your willingness to try new approaches .. to experiment .. and not be afraid to fail. Great project. Thanks for posting.
Really neat project. I always like watching your videos - especially when you show "mistakes"...most of us do our own share and I learn just as much about how you correct yours as I do from watching the parts you did right. I think I'll have to buy one of your t-shirts before I go to Weekend With Wood in Des Moines, Iowa, next May! Thank you for sharing. Mike
Me before watching video: "What an amazing project. I'm definitely going to have to make one myself. I wonder what techniques are involved..." Me after watching video: "Noooooooooooooooooooope."
Don't be too hard on yourself because you are making mistakes!! My Daddy always said that the last perfect person on Earth got nailed to a cross!! Love your videos and always look forward to a new one!!
You have amazing patience! I couldn't even make it 1/3 way through the vid! I hope the board gives a lifetime of service to offset your time and glue! Power to your work, Sir!
Amazing Neil! I was looking forward to see this one! Congratulations on the idea and patience... I think I would enjoy doing some work like that too. Abraços meu amigo!!!
Lovely idea and production ! I don't have feet on my boards, because I like to use both sides of the board. I have finger grooves down the short edges. Keep making stuff ! Stu
I really enjoyed this a lot. I’m happy you showed the flaws and how you altered the plan/idea as problems arose. This seemed very therapeutic and I could see how an occupational therapist could implement this in their treatment plans. All in all well done and thanks for posting it.
You would never know what you’re going to get if you don’t even try ...good for you for doing so...it looks amazing I truly love it 🥰 the colours looked beautiful...it was worth the effort...congratulations
I'll give you kudos for your dedication and "stick to it" determination. I would have chunked that project in the trash can after running into a few setbacks that you just brushed off like sawdust. Great job. You definitely earned that!
@@Hellsong89 I would almost concur with you. My dissent is that there are 2 part epoxies out there that are totally 100% inert once cured. There some epoxies that aren't food safe, even after cure.
This is cool, could have done without the feet, use a tea-towel or whatever non-aussies call the drying cloth for your dishes and it will give the cutting board a non-slip effect.
You come up with some great ideas, and that's one of them. It's an attractive board and, I imagine, it would make a very good, tough cutting board. GREAT!
LMMFBO dude you gotta have the patience of a Buddhist monk. I would have jumped head first into my wood chipper after 5 minutes of that. Great job, I love all types of wood working and now skews are on my list of future headaches. Thanks for the video and keep up the wood.
Oh man! That is cool! I would have never thought to use skewers like that. I guess it is just a cutting board kind of week. I put a cutting board video up on my channel this week, and so did April Wilkerson. ha
"I think I could definitly do a better job if I were to do it again, but I'm really not sure I ever would, but you never know, maybe". Oh, if I had a dime for every time I said that.
Beautiful, instant sub right there. Great attention to detail, thats what i like to see. You saw even after a few days of work gluing it wasn't to the level of finish you were after, so you scrapped the idea and did something else entirely to get the best outcome/outcome you desired. Mark of a great creator! Top Job.
I am watching this again, and hindsight is really king. I think I've come up with the method I would try. Take a large enough bundle, pour glue on them, pick them up again in upright position (easy when they're full side or at least longer), place bottom down on the the big form, clamp, cut the parts above the form's height with the hand saw (they still should be long enough that orienting them upright should still be easy), remove the clamp temporarily, put the cut off part back in front of the pieces you already got in there, repeat until you need more skewers/are done. Not sure if I am making sense here, but I think you get a picture what I am trying to describe.
This would be perfect for cheese and fruit. I'm not sure I would use it for cutting anything up. But it's a beauty. I love how bamboo has that cool pattern. Thanks for making it.
Excellent WOW WOW therr are so many clever folk out there Oh what a great idea I love it Thank you for the share of your wonderful idea Hugs from Milton Keynes UK
man thats awesome Mr Neil never seen this done before you do have a great sense of creativity i ran across your youtube by accident and been watching you since really enjoy watching you hope you put more videos up
Another amazing video and the chopping board looks quite original. I'm a huge fan of bamboo skewers and their multiple applications. Stir sticks are another great option. I have made a decent smartphone case out of them but instead of wood glue, I've used cyanoacrylate. Great project, simple and entertaining. Thank you for posting.
Fantastic job, you have the patience of 100 men Ha Ha. Similar to those that make the segmented vases with 30,000 pieces 😭😭😭. Came together very well. 👍. Cheers, Sean
😊 Wow! Good vid, good idea! Love the fact you brought to bare that you can make "really" strong cutting board out anything your imagination can come up with! 👍 Thank you!
I was honestly just thinking about doing this with small dowels. You just helped me think about some of the challenges I am going to face. I was planning to use several different sizes of dowels and wasn't sure how I was going to fill the gaps. Well looks like I will be using these bamboo skewers for my filler. I also thought of cutting some triangular strips to fill gaps also. Perhaps I will do both.
Thank you sir! I've been looking at some interesting, irregular larger pieces I have, and wondering how I could put them together, without having to cut them up, to the point of making them boring! You've given me a good option to fill in the space in between! They also sell, very small dowels at the dollar store. So I could use wood similar to my other pieces!
What a cool end result! It reminds me of a cutting board that looks like a corkboard! I wouldn't have rounded off the edges so much, and I wouldn't have screwed in feet (as a serious cook, my dad made me a typical butcher pattern endgrain block, and he left it very square with barely broken edges and without feet since I would stand the board on its side in a rack to dry, he also routered in about a quarter inch deep finger slot on either side. No feet kind of doubles the lifespan of the board, it lets you flip it as you need. Still, I bet that thing is fun to cut on. Bamboo isn't quite as fast as hardwood, but it is 100% sustainable and still very good.
Oh my!! Such patience - enjoyed learning with you as you discovered better ways of making it. It’s incredible, looks like something between cork and honeycomb. Awesome job. Thanks for sharing - new subscriber here! 👌🤗🌲🦊🌲
Nice video something different definitely... I like your perseverance..you started it..you said the heck with it..I'm going to finish it and it turned out rather nice.. Congratulations,Nice video.
I made one recently such a long and frustrating build. Looks great though love the look. I made it because of this video and fell in love with it. Just so darn frustrating, it was definitly a Darwin type of cutting board.
I can recommend the small translucent rubberlike dots that you use on doors and drawers to give them a slightly less noisy closing, as "feet" for cutting boards, sticks good to kitchen benches and is supercheap and easy to replace should it be necessary :)
I like the "buzzing" sound of the vehicles passing by when you play back above normal speed. Sounds almost like a race track in front of your place. And the cutting board, way too cool for school. The guillotine you used to cut the miters on the trim, when I was quite a bit younger, I worked at a picture framing shop where we used the same type machine to cut corners for picture frames. While cutting a very small frame, the right blade found my index finger and cut from the first knuckle into the nail about half way. I still have the scar to this day...
I'm not claiming it's a good idea but it's something I wanted to try and had to give it a go! I ended up doing a lot of voiceover in this video which isn't what I usually do, it just worked out that way! :)
Sometimes you need a voice over to make things PG... I wish I could do that in real life! Fun project!
It’s amazing !!!!!!
I quite like the voiceovers, its like an audiobook😄
Thanks James! :)
You have some patients cobber
When I was a kid I had a teacher who used to say "Beware the fury of a patient man".
He must have had you in mind. :-)
Nice one.
My gramma used to say to 'never p*ss off a woman who does needlepoint...she's proven that she has the patience to stab something a few thousand times'
Ambitious project. I am a fan of bamboo skewers instead of screws when securing two pieces of wood. I never thought of a end grain cutting board.
Excellent video and process. You have done it again Professor. Keep up the excellent work. Thank you for sharing.
I do like your use of Silky Oak in the border frame. It lends a pleasing dark constant and enhances the appearance of finished piece.
Wow. Your patience is impressive. You are a master woodworker my friend. Beautiful job!!
Xoxox from FLORIDA
4:18 Anyone else noticing an optic illusion? It looked like the corner pointed away from the screen and the angles of the bamboo were all messy.
I see what you mean 😏 idk about you but switching between optical illusions and how true angles perceived, makes my brain smile
Started watching this and initially thought this guys off his trolly, was sucked in and saw an Amazing result, great job. Totally impressed by his skill and degree of patience.
My husband is a wood worker (in his spare time). He makes furniture and also likes smaller type projects as well. I will show him your video, but I doubt I can get him to make it. However, I think it looks very nice and it is unique. Great job :)
I wondered where this project had got too. Turned out amazing in the end, that last shot of the end grain looks so cool
Yeah, it was a while ago! Thanks mate! :)
Excellent. Your patience and perseverance paid off.
The board is 2/3 skewers, 1/3 glue 😆
I know you're just joking but for anyone curious about the actual ratio it's closer to 90% (by volume).
Hexagonally packed circles cover about 90.69% of an area. The exact formula (assuming no squishing of the wood) to calculate the fraction of circles within a given area is:
(π√3)/6 ≈ 0.9096
With the wood being squished together, I'd guess the board is likely closer to 95% wood.
@@ddegn oh wow
@@ddegn "With the wood being squished together..."
And hence less circular?
@@ChazAllenUK "And hence less circular?"
Yes. They become closer to a hexagon in shape. Perfect hexagons don't leave any gaps.
The packing ratio of the bamboo skews is likely better than the ratio for cylinders since they're squished into hexagonal shapes.
At 5:20 they look more like hexagons than circles.
@@ddegn My head hurts after I read that
I just finished making one of these for myself. Used supermarket-bought skewers, and they were a lot thinner than the ones in the video. Board was also a little bigger. Ended up using 4,500+ full skewers, each cut into 5 pieces, for a total of 22,000+ pieces. Took several weeks to get it all done, but totally worth it. Looks great, very solid. Would recommend that if you do this that you use thick skewers, and more glue than you think. It was a little bit flexible before I put the edging on.
Fantastic! Waited for the close up at the end and was not disappointed! 👍
Glad you like it! :)
Such patience! I mostly appreciated your willingness to try new approaches .. to experiment .. and not be afraid to fail. Great project. Thanks for posting.
Thanks very much Todd! :)
This is a crazy idea. And I mean that in the best way possible. So fun.
Thanks very much! :)
Really neat project. I always like watching your videos - especially when you show "mistakes"...most of us do our own share and I learn just as much about how you correct yours as I do from watching the parts you did right. I think I'll have to buy one of your t-shirts before I go to Weekend With Wood in Des Moines, Iowa, next May! Thank you for sharing. Mike
Me before watching video: "What an amazing project. I'm definitely going to have to make one myself. I wonder what techniques are involved..."
Me after watching video: "Noooooooooooooooooooope."
Why not?
@@nowonmetube glue under your nails
@@greengreen110 wear gloves?
@@nowonmetube nah, to much work
@@greengreen110 putting gloves 🧤 on its too much work? Lmao
Don't be too hard on yourself because you are making mistakes!! My Daddy always said that the last perfect person on Earth got nailed to a cross!! Love your videos and always look forward to a new one!!
Everything about this video is awesome! The board turned out awesome, I must say this is the first bamboo skewer cutting board I've seen haha
Thank you! :)
Your ingenuity never ceases to amaze me! I just use those skewers as dowels for small stuff.... great job Neil!
Thanks Henry! They're pretty handy around the workshop! :)
Loved the chips-mayo technique! I think I'll try that (guess I'm not through with finger painting yet).
so beautiful. love seeing you clamp down on the rows and see the glue escape. im also fond of the squeaky sped up noises
Really cool, man. Great problem solving, too. And great editing. You got talent.
Thanks very much Mariano! :)
Idk if this is great problem solving though, you just dont make a cutting board for food with wood glue...
Lea Schmitt Whatever, man.
You have amazing patience!
I couldn't even make it 1/3 way through the vid!
I hope the board gives a lifetime of service to offset your time and glue!
Power to your work, Sir!
Amazing Neil! I was looking forward to see this one! Congratulations on the idea and patience... I think I would enjoy doing some work like that too. Abraços meu amigo!!!
Thanks very much mate! You should give it a go! ;)
Lovely idea and production !
I don't have feet on my boards, because I like to use both sides of the board.
I have finger grooves down the short edges.
Keep making stuff !
Stu
That’s really cool!
Thanks very much David! :)
I really enjoyed this a lot. I’m happy you showed the flaws and how you altered the plan/idea as problems arose. This seemed very therapeutic and I could see how an occupational therapist could implement this in their treatment plans. All in all well done and thanks for posting it.
Well done. Looks really good. It would have been nice to include some burnt ones.
More impressive than the project is the creativity in the problem solving.
I think that came out really nice, sometimes you just need to spend a few hours and get messy to relax...and audiobooks sure help haha
You would never know what you’re going to get if you don’t even try ...good for you for doing so...it looks amazing I truly love it 🥰 the colours looked beautiful...it was worth the effort...congratulations
Fantastic, you need to have it standing next to a bamboo-skewer knife block - so now you need to make.....
those things are filthy tho. Germ collectors and impossible to clean
I'll give you kudos for your dedication and "stick to it" determination. I would have chunked that project in the trash can after running into a few setbacks that you just brushed off like sawdust. Great job. You definitely earned that!
I am just curious, if that much glue is good idea for chopping board, might contaminate the food
With the oil coating on top and the glue fully hardened it shouldn't really make a difference at all, plus you can always use non-toxic glue
I would be far more worried about people using epoxy in their chopping boards than PVA glue...
He indicated titebond 3 so should be fine
@@Hellsong89 I would almost concur with you. My dissent is that there are 2 part epoxies out there that are totally 100% inert once cured. There some epoxies that aren't food safe, even after cure.
Titebond 3 is FDA approved as food safe
One of the best cutting board videos I have watched. Such a creative way to use those skewers. You killed it Pask!
Thanks very much Brad! :)
This is cool, could have done without the feet, use a tea-towel or whatever non-aussies call the drying cloth for your dishes and it will give the cutting board a non-slip effect.
You come up with some great ideas, and that's one of them. It's an attractive board and, I imagine, it would make a very good, tough cutting board. GREAT!
Thanks very much Geoff! :)
I’ll say one thing old partner, you’ve got a sight more patience than I do.
The project turned out real nice though
I absolutely love the final shot of the end grain. It's like little wooden snowflakes.
That is amazing work and it looks super. Really cool idea. Thumbs up! :-)
Brings a whole new meaning to end grain cutting boards, brilliant job mate always a pleasure watching your work.
Thanks very much Riaan! :)
Why didn’t you use resin for this project
Resin for? This is a chopping board. You cant use resin as a chopping board.
LMMFBO dude you gotta have the patience of a Buddhist monk. I would have jumped head first into my wood chipper after 5 minutes of that. Great job, I love all types of wood working and now skews are on my list of future headaches. Thanks for the video and keep up the wood.
I hope to have a shed like yours one day! Until then the ideas stay on paper and in AutoCAD.
same, get on with it, time doesn't wait for us man! peace
I can't believe you glued them in individually. That's tenacity!
Oh man! That is cool! I would have never thought to use skewers like that. I guess it is just a cutting board kind of week. I put a cutting board video up on my channel this week, and so did April Wilkerson. ha
Glad you liked it Bruce! I just checked out your video - very nice! :)
Pask Makes Thanks for taking a look!
Wow!
I admire your patience and determination!
Great result, didn't expect that!
Thanks very much mate! :)
"I think I could definitly do a better job if I were to do it again, but I'm really not sure I ever would, but you never know, maybe".
Oh, if I had a dime for every time I said that.
Beautiful, instant sub right there. Great attention to detail, thats what i like to see. You saw even after a few days of work gluing it wasn't to the level of finish you were after, so you scrapped the idea and did something else entirely to get the best outcome/outcome you desired. Mark of a great creator! Top Job.
Thanks very much Daniel - glad you enjoyed it! :)
Pretty unfortunate that bamboo is so hard that it'll dull the knives
I'm glad you persevered because the final product looks great!
"I made a chopping board from glue with a few bamboo skewers thrown in for good measure."
That my friend is a very unique cutting board. 2 my Knowledge no one else has one unless they copied yours. Great job.
You are crazy. I liked that a lot though! Haha
I am watching this again, and hindsight is really king. I think I've come up with the method I would try. Take a large enough bundle, pour glue on them, pick them up again in upright position (easy when they're full side or at least longer), place bottom down on the the big form, clamp, cut the parts above the form's height with the hand saw (they still should be long enough that orienting them upright should still be easy), remove the clamp temporarily, put the cut off part back in front of the pieces you already got in there, repeat until you need more skewers/are done. Not sure if I am making sense here, but I think you get a picture what I am trying to describe.
You are really talented and super creative. That's why I watch and subscribed. Thanks, Pask.
This would be perfect for cheese and fruit. I'm not sure I would use it for cutting anything up. But it's a beauty. I love how bamboo has that cool pattern. Thanks for making it.
In the last shot it's look like golf balls, surreal !
I may have to do this, now. I just learned how to make box joints, so that's what I'll use for the outside trim. Thanks very much.
Sounds like a good idea Mike! :)
Great video Pask. I have always wanted to make something out of bamboo skewers (or chopsticks), and this is a great way to use the bamboo.
Thanks Bob! :)
This project is perfect for #StayAtHome period of time!
Nice project and thanks for sharing.
Excellent WOW WOW therr are so many clever folk out there
Oh what a great idea I love it
Thank you for the share of your wonderful idea Hugs from Milton Keynes UK
Thank you Izzabella! :)
man thats awesome Mr Neil never seen this done before you do have a great sense of creativity i ran across your youtube by accident and been watching you since really enjoy watching you hope you put more videos up
Another amazing video and the chopping board looks quite original. I'm a huge fan of bamboo skewers and their multiple applications. Stir sticks are another great option. I have made a decent smartphone case out of them but instead of wood glue, I've used cyanoacrylate. Great project, simple and entertaining. Thank you for posting.
Glad you liked it! I use them in the workshop too and every time I use one, I think 'what could I make with these'! :)
Very cool, Neil. You are a very patient man indeed.
That looks like a project for me to try over the winter. Thanks for all you do. gives me alot of great idea's.
Glad you like it! :)
Fantastic job, you have the patience of 100 men Ha Ha. Similar to those that make the segmented vases with 30,000 pieces 😭😭😭. Came together very well. 👍. Cheers, Sean
Well done! Thx for sharing and the lessons learned. Loved the use of the jigs.
😊 Wow!
Good vid, good idea!
Love the fact you brought to bare that you can make "really" strong cutting board out anything your imagination can come up with!
👍 Thank you!
Cool project. For the feet, why not use cork? You can slice an old wine cork and glue it on.
Really cool vid. Nice project awesome result! I actually like that it's above the ground half an inch gives it character.
Yeah, it can get wet underneath and still be safe.
I was honestly just thinking about doing this with small dowels. You just helped me think about some of the challenges I am going to face. I was planning to use several different sizes of dowels and wasn't sure how I was going to fill the gaps. Well looks like I will be using these bamboo skewers for my filler. I also thought of cutting some triangular strips to fill gaps also. Perhaps I will do both.
Thank you sir! I've been looking at some interesting, irregular larger pieces I have, and wondering how I could put them together, without having to cut them up, to the point of making them boring! You've given me a good option to fill in the space in between! They also sell, very small dowels at the dollar store. So I could use wood similar to my other pieces!
Super hats off to you, nobody would think about making chopping board of sticks...
What a cool end result! It reminds me of a cutting board that looks like a corkboard! I wouldn't have rounded off the edges so much, and I wouldn't have screwed in feet (as a serious cook, my dad made me a typical butcher pattern endgrain block, and he left it very square with barely broken edges and without feet since I would stand the board on its side in a rack to dry, he also routered in about a quarter inch deep finger slot on either side.
No feet kind of doubles the lifespan of the board, it lets you flip it as you need.
Still, I bet that thing is fun to cut on. Bamboo isn't quite as fast as hardwood, but it is 100% sustainable and still very good.
Agh Good Grief. You must be the worlds most patient Gent???? Flipping Ek????? Very impressed, hahahahaha 🇬🇧💖🙏💕❤️😂😂
Oh my!! Such patience - enjoyed learning with you as you discovered better ways of making it. It’s incredible, looks like something between cork and honeycomb. Awesome job. Thanks for sharing - new subscriber here! 👌🤗🌲🦊🌲
Thanks very much! :)
A+ for patience and perseverance :) And at the end it was a pretty nice project.
Nice video something different definitely... I like your perseverance..you started it..you said the heck with it..I'm going to finish it and it turned out rather nice.. Congratulations,Nice video.
Thanks very much - glad you liked it! :)
You are very patient! And the result is original and fantastic! You're very creative.
Beautiful result. Well done!
That very last second close up shot of the board (cell structure? grain?) was cool!!!
So much patience !!!!
Stunning look
I made one recently such a long and frustrating build. Looks great though love the look. I made it because of this video and fell in love with it. Just so darn frustrating, it was definitly a Darwin type of cutting board.
It came out fantastic!! It's unique, cool and totally insane project !! (I think I'll stay away from wood glue for some time).
Thanks mate! :)
You know how to make hard work for yourself but the result was real nice!
Very impressed by the mitre guillotine, I've not seen one of those before.
Looks great! Nice craftsmanship
All in all a very good result. I thoroughly enjoyed the video!! Cheers ....
Brilliant idea and turned out amazing...
I can recommend the small translucent rubberlike dots that you use on doors and drawers to give them a slightly less noisy closing, as "feet" for cutting boards, sticks good to kitchen benches and is supercheap and easy to replace should it be necessary :)
Very cool. Nice shot at the end. Looks good!
Nice work Neil, your patience is admirable😊
Hi Neil. You can get a range of sizes of those feet from Clark Rubber, if you have a store anywhere near.
Thanks Geoffrey - I'll check that out. :)
Impressive work very, very nice.👍🏻
Looks great 👍👍👍, don't beat yourself up about the mistakes, the rest of us viewers and you all gained new knowledge from watching you do it ☺️.
Thanks mate! :)
I like the "buzzing" sound of the vehicles passing by when you play back above normal speed. Sounds almost like a race track in front of your place. And the cutting board, way too cool for school.
The guillotine you used to cut the miters on the trim, when I was quite a bit younger, I worked at a picture framing shop where we used the same type machine to cut corners for picture frames. While cutting a very small frame, the right blade found my index finger and cut from the first knuckle into the nail about half way. I still have the scar to this day...
Wow! That sounds nasty Jeff! I always imagine what damage the guillotine could do, the blades are scary sharp. :)
Wow, nice job and love that machine at 6:05
This is soooo cool ! So much patience to cut and glue all those little pieces together, but it's worth in the end :)
Exercise in patience. Thanks for sharing.