I am going to make a very basic cutting board. I saw on a website
that I should use hardwoods (oak, maple, poplar, cedar?). I went to
Lowe's and they had 1x2x2 pre-cut and sanded for about 1.50 - 1.70
each. By this price, and needing about ten of them, I would spend
$34.00 on the wood. I can buy it cheaper (I know I won't have the
"experience.") When I was in school, we made one from rough pieces of
cut wood and we had to sand and make it nice. I feel too much like I
am cheating when I didn't cut the wood into strips to begin with, but
the sanded and fixed up pieces is too much. I don't wan't a snap
together model.
Where can I get the wood so that it isn't all fixed up for me (and I
don't want to cut down any trees!)? Cost? Thanks.
"Gfretwell" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> For that kind of money Croffwood Mills will deliver 50 feet of 1x2
(.75x1.5)
> hard maple to your door. (HM-FP $26 plus shipping)
>
> I don't have any vested interest in them but I have had good luck buying
from
> them.
> croffwoodmills.com
>
I found a place that would do
13/16''
6''
10'
$5.50 a board foot - hardwood maple
I think this is also 5 sq. ft.
Does one inch planed out really mean 13/16''?
"Todd L" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> >I went to
> > Lowe's and they had 1x2x2 pre-cut and sanded for about 1.50 - 1.70
> > each. By this price, and needing about ten of them, I would spend
> > $34.00 on the wood.
>
> I don't quite get your math here ??
>
> Todd L
>
I need 20 of them.
20 * 1.5 = 30 or $30.00. I should have said ten of each kind of what I was
going to get. I wanted the checker board effect, so I was going to get 10
maple and 10 something else.
"jm" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I am going to make a very basic cutting board. I saw on a website
> that I should use hardwoods (oak, maple, poplar, cedar?). I went to
> Lowe's and they had 1x2x2 pre-cut and sanded for about 1.50 - 1.70
> each. By this price, and needing about ten of them, I would spend
> $34.00 on the wood. I can buy it cheaper (I know I won't have the
> "experience.") When I was in school, we made one from rough pieces of
> cut wood and we had to sand and make it nice. I feel too much like I
> am cheating when I didn't cut the wood into strips to begin with, but
> the sanded and fixed up pieces is too much. I don't wan't a snap
> together model.
>
> Where can I get the wood so that it isn't all fixed up for me (and I
> don't want to cut down any trees!)? Cost? Thanks.
the traditional wood for cutting boards is hard maple with a mineral oil
finish.
look for local mills in your area.
go to google archives and search the rec archives for suppliers in your area
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=rec.woodworking
"Gfretwell" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> For that kind of money Croffwood Mills will deliver 50 feet of 1x2
(.75x1.5)
> hard maple to your door. (HM-FP $26 plus shipping)
>
> I don't have any vested interest in them but I have had good luck buying
from
> them.
> croffwoodmills.com
>
They didn't "fix it up" all sanded and everything did they? If 50ft. about
what I should get? I know you may have just been giving an example.
>They didn't "fix it up" all sanded and everything did they? If 50ft. about
>what I should get?
This will be about 3 square feet of 1 1/2" thick cutting board. That is 2 or 3
nice ones.
This wood is very well manicured but trust me, if this is your first glue up
project, you want it as clean as it can be. I still ended up sanding plenty. If
you have a new jointer/planer you want to play with this is probably not what
you want tho. If you are just using "carpenter tools" (like I have) this is
your stuff.