Cutting boards Mountain Sun Rise
Mountain Sun Rise Cutting Board/Serving Tray
These handcrafted cutting boards are my new best selling cutting board. Built as a dual use cutting board or serving tray, they're coved on one side for easy loaded pick up from a table. Use the coved side as a cutting board, and leave the other side unscathed for display and use as a serving platter. Solid wood , 7/8" thick, stabilized by tapered sliding dovetail end pieces to resist warping common to most striped cutting boards. We'll include a tin of the walnut oil and beeswax mix we make for a finish for them. I pore through my wood shed looking for the most interesting boards to capture striking landscape, mountain and sky effects from color and grain; because of this they all vary in coloration. Available in three sizes, starting at $85 and a miniature size at $34, including shipping.Click here for enlargement
Mount Monadnock Moon Rise Cutting Board/Serving Tray
Here's the night time version, "moonrise" of my new best selling cutting board. These have a walnut or other dark wood sky, and a holly rising moon. Built as a duel use cutting board or serving tray, they're coved on one side for easy loaded pick up from a table. Solid wood , 7/8" thick, stabilized by tapered sliding dovetail end pieces to resist warping common to most striped cutting boards. We'll include a tin of the walnut oil and beeswax mix we make for a finish for them. I pour through my wood shed looking for the most interesting boards to capture striking landscape, mountain and sky effects from color and grain. This one has a koa Mount Monadnock, biore and cherry foregound, walnut sky and sapele frame.
Mountain Moon or Sun Rise Cutting Board/Serving Tray
Most striped cutting boards simply show endgrain, and the board is free to expand and contract across its width....and usually warp as well. It's best to apply what's called bread board ends (its actual name!) . The problem is they need to be applied in such a way as to allow wood movement, while still holding the board flat. One method is to screw cleats through oversized holes, or do a multiple mortise and tenon, gluing only the middle, as in boards I made awhile back (now out of stock). The best way though is a matched tapered sliding dovetail, glued only in the middle. These joints are so tight they need to be driven home with a large mallet, yet they'll allow the necessary wood movement across the width of the board, while holding it flat. They look great too!
Mount Monadnock Cutting Board
Here's a detail shot showing the koa Mount Monadnock rising above the foreground hills. Southern New Hampshire's Mount Monadnock is familiar to many New Englanders, and this view is from a hilltop a mile from our house, where Mount Monadnock rises majestically above rows of smaller intervening hills.
Small Mountain Cutting Board
Here's the night-time version of my new best selling cutting board. Built as a dual use cutting board or serving board. Use one side as a cutting board, and leave the other side unscathed for display and use as a serving platter. Solid wood , 7/8" thick, stabilized by tapered sliding dovetail end pieces to resist warping common to most striped cutting boards. We'll include a tin of the walnut oil and beeswax mix we make for a finish for them. I pour through my wood shed looking for the most interesting boards to capture striking landscape, mountain and sky effects from color and grain. This one has a sassafras Mount Monadnock, the beautiful 3165 foot mountain in southern New Hampshire, as seen from a hilltop near my Colrain, MA home, rising against walnut sky with holly moon, and sapele frame
Medium Mountain Cutting Board
Here's the day time version of my new best selling cutting board in the medium size. Built as a dual use cutting board or serving board. Use one side as a cutting board, and leave the other side unscathed for display and use as a serving platter. Solid wood , 7/8" thick, stabilized by tapered sliding dovetail end pieces to resist warping common to most striped cutting boards. We'll include a tin of the walnut oil and beeswax mix we make for a finish for them. I pore through my wood shed looking for the most interesting boards to capture striking landscape, mountain and sky effects from color and grain. This one has a cherry Mount Monadnock, the beautiful 3165 foot mountain in southern New Hampshire, as seen from a hilltop near my Colrain, MA home, rising against maple sky with satinwood sun , and sapele frame
Small Mountain Cutting Board
Here's the day time version of my new best selling cutting board in the small size. Built as a dual use cutting board or serving board. Use one side as a cutting board, and leave the other side unscathed for display and use as a serving platter. Solid wood , 7/8" thick, stabilized by tapered sliding dovetail end pieces to resist warping common to most striped cutting boards. We'll include a tin of the walnut oil and beeswax mix we make for a finish for them. I pore through my wood shed looking for the most interesting boards to capture striking landscape, mountain and sky effects from color and grain. This one has a cherry Mount Monadnock, the beautiful 3165 foot mountain in southern New Hampshire, as seen from a hilltop near my Colrain, MA home, rising against maple sky with satinwood sun , and sapele frame
Medium Mountain Cutting Board
Here's the night-time version of my new best selling cutting board. Built as a dual use cutting board or serving board. Use one side as a cutting board, and leave the other side unscathed for display and use as a serving platter. Solid wood , 7/8" thick, stabilized by tapered sliding dovetail end pieces to resist warping common to most striped cutting boards. We'll include a tin of the walnut oil and beeswax mix we make for a finish for them. I pore through my wood shed looking for the most interesting boards to capture striking landscape, mountain and sky effects from color and grain. This one has a sassafras Mount Monadnock, the beautiful 3165 foot mountain in southern New Hampshire, as seen from a hilltop near my Colrain, MA home, rising against walnut sky with holly moon, and sapele frame
Inlaid Bicycle Chainwheels box
This special custom wood box was built for an ardent bicyclist, who wanted a box with the pattern of interlaced chainwheels he and his wife have tatooed on their bodies. Not settling for a mere wooden inlay, he sent me actual aluminum chainrings to be fitted into the top of the box I would make him.
The box is koa, with ebony accents. This is another example of the amazing accuracy of the inlay work I can do with my shopbuilt CNC router. This required some puzzle solving both in creating the drawing, and cutting the interlacing chainrings to fit together with precision -the first time.
Silver Inlaid Horse Box
This silver and ebony inlay box was part of a small production run for a client who was looking for special gifts for fellow horse enthusiasts. This required the ability to inlay many tiny pieces of silver into the ebony top with speed as well as precision. Some of the silver lines are as thin as .035"!
This is another example of the amazing accuracy of the inlay work I can do with my shopbuilt CNC router. I can craft both one-of-a-kind and small production batches at surprisingly affordable prices. These boxes were less than $200 each for a batch of a dozen.
Custom Inlaid Serving Tray
This serving tray was custom made for an Illinois man who wanted a special piece to hand down the generations, depicting a backyard cherry tree in full blossom.
The walnut tray holds an inlaid panel of birds-eye maple framing a quilted maple sky around the claro walnut tree with bloodwood blossoms, framed in ebony. This is a great example of the amazing accuracy of the inlay work I can do with my shopbuilt CNC router.
Special Forces Gun Box
This special custom wood box was built for a client who served in the US Special Forces in Vietnam. He became the holder of an emblematic hand gun from his troop, and felt it deserved an appropriate storage vessel. The client provided the exquisite quilted maple from his native Oregon, and also supplied the unusual gold plated hardware.
The inlay work, shown in the enlargement is at about 1.5 X scale, involves nearly 100 pieces, with ebony, holly, satinwood, baliwood, jatoba and Brazilian tulipwood. This is a great example of the amazing accuracy of the inlay work I can do with my shopbuilt CNC router. It does help to know what you're doing. The CNC only does, at best, what it's told to do.
