Spread the glue from the squiggly lines evenly before clamping. Then glue the boards together using parallel clamps and a water resistant wood glue. Joint the edges to make sure you have clean edges ready for glue up (If you don’t have a jointer you can also use a tablesaw). Glue Up the End Grain Cutting Board Blank You can come up with a ton of awesome designs so move your boards around until you get the end grain cutting patterns you like. The triangle the sapwood made was perfect and you’ll see what it turns into later. I lined the grain direction of the outer boards up with the grain direction of the inner boards so it almost looks like they are just one larger board. I arranged the boards as you can see above so it resembled a mirror image from the center. In walnut the heartwood is dark and the sapwood is light which makes for a great contrast on your end grain cutting board designs. This is the wood that is closest to the bark and carries the sap. The lighter streaks you see are what’s call the sapwood. Looking at the end grain, I could see these would make an amazing end grain cutting board. I had a 6′ long piece of walnut that was about 2-1/2″ wide and I cut it into 16″ pieces that were 1-1/4″ thick. For making end grain cutting boards the grain pattern on the ends of the boards is what will be showing when it’s done. The first and probably most important part of making a cutting board is the wood selection. Select your Wood for the End Grain Cutting Board Final glue up of the end grain cutting boardġ.Cut the strips for the final cutting board design.So have fun reading my instructable, try to make your own cutting board and stay safe. For the C parts I used white oak but the best would be maple. A dark wood (I used Iroko) for the (A, F and E) pieces, A lighter (beech) for (B, D, G) and an even lighter wood for C. You will need three different species of wood. It is the first one I have ever made and the next one will be even better and of course bigger!

So I have decided to make a cutting board with a pattern on it ,it was just an experiment really, I just wanted to see if I could make it and the truth is I am really happy with the way it turned out. We all have a cutting board at home, some people prefer the plastic ones others the wooden ones and some people like me prefer the wooden ones but with a 3d pattern on them not because the work better than all the others but because they also look cool!

3d wood cutting board plans