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Model: Architec XL 18"x 23" Edge-Grain Acacia Cutting Board and Chop Block
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Listing says its 15Lb.
I have a 15lb Teak chopping board and its heavy to maneuver and carry. My wife doesn't like moving it for this reason. Just keep that in mind.
I bought 2 of them. I won't be using them for cutting though, but likely as a stand / riser for something. Hard to find something like that for this price and weight support
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Listing says its 15Lb.
I have a 15lb Teak chopping board and its heavy to maneuver and carry. My wife doesn't like moving it for this reason. Just keep that in mind.
Chopping blocks are for chopping on not carrying around
You would need to prep the edges for joining (jointer or planar), drill perpendicular holes for wooden dowels on each piece, glue dowels/joining edge/insert dowels then clamp together until set, plane/sand all surfaces to eliminate any edges, then refinish with your chosen method (something food safe such as mineral oil and bee wax).
The obvious answer here is they NEED a Festool Domino. Along with the Festool track saw to cut the edge the jointer to square off the edge, router for the decorative edges, rotary sander, and we can't forget about the dust collector. That will set them up nicely to follow the inevitable YouTube video they find. There just isn't any other conceivable way to accomplish this. /s
Last edited by Notasaurus February 1, 2025 at 07:36 AM.
The obvious answer here is they NEED a Festool Domino. Along with the Festool track saw to cut the edge the jointer to square off the edge, router for the decorative edges, rotary sander, and we can't forget about the dust collector. That will set them up nicely to follow the inevitable YouTube video they find. There just isn't any other conceivable way to accomplish this. /s
Buy the Christoforo (sp?) and Eakes books, and an old RAS with a few attachments?
If that is the case, they really did their homework with getting the edges to line up with the top surface like that. Usually you see a top and a bottom with a band around the side.
The product images suggest to me these are all cutoffs with the goal being to get something that is 1.5" tall. Picture 1 shows full height pieces, picture 2 and 3 show two layers stacked. The customer images seem to be all over the place with different layer heights. I don't see any picture that would suggest it's not hardwood all the way through. But one of the ones that is cracked in half does look to have a a 4/4 layer sandwiched between two 1/4 layers. But even there it still looks like hardwood through and through. That's why the end grain matches the top and bottom.
I've made end-grain and edge-grain boards. End-grain is more attractive and is absolutely more labor intensive to produce so it commands a premium price. Unless you go nuts, knife edge damage is pretty much irrelevant in either case; heat-treated steel is much harder than wood 😁 If you are dulling your knife edge on a wooden cutting board ... you need a better knife.
OK, so I looked at the Waly photos. A couple things that popped out were 1) some of the joints appear to be open or filled 2) one of the end pictures shows solid pieces extending top-to-bottom and another showed a series of additional glue joints along the center. In use, this doesn't matter but if you are one of the people planning to cut it into strips and re-assemble it as end-grain ... you may be headed for a lot of disappointment.
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I have a 15lb Teak chopping board and its heavy to maneuver and carry. My wife doesn't like moving it for this reason. Just keep that in mind.
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I have a 15lb Teak chopping board and its heavy to maneuver and carry. My wife doesn't like moving it for this reason. Just keep that in mind.
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OK, so I looked at the Waly photos. A couple things that popped out were 1) some of the joints appear to be open or filled 2) one of the end pictures shows solid pieces extending top-to-bottom and another showed a series of additional glue joints along the center. In use, this doesn't matter but if you are one of the people planning to cut it into strips and re-assemble it as end-grain ... you may be headed for a lot of disappointment.
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