It looks and feels like smooth formica, except the detail is way beyond what you could get in formica.
I am not sure I like it, but it is interesting.
It does look interesting, but end grain? Won't is suck up anything liquid on it?
No, it is completely saturated with BLO. And I mean competely. If you apply it to the top, some wicks out the bottom. Let it dry a while, apply more, etc. It weights significantly more than the raw wood.
Large butcher cutting "blocks" are built this way
REAL butcher block has always been endgrain, for wear resistance. Some Japanese blocks are actually a section of hard maple, maybe 4-8" thick and a foot in diameter, just cut straight from the tree and then iron banded like a hot tub to prevent splitting. I have two 2" thick endgrain hard maple boards about 12x18, they do drink oil, but they last forever.
I think it's butt ugly!! But it looks cool in an ugly sort of way and things like that are fun to build...even if you're really not sure if you should give it away (I should know...I have a cupboard full of things that look just like that!)
Rob
Typically "Chopping" blocks are made this way with the end grain up. For true cutting boards, I've typically seen edge grain showing. Either way, I'm sure it'll work just fine! Cheers, cc
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Red oak, and other ring porous woods? Think a bundle of drinking straws...
Patriarch
Yes, the endgrain does not dull the blade as quickly as a "cross grain" cutting board. The grain separates a little at the knife edge, kind of like the way a horsehair (or whatever material that is) dartboard does.
dwhite
I believe that would be "boar bristles".
I guess there's no accounting for taste, but I kinda like it.
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Not in my house, thank you.
Patriarch
Tom Watson wrote:
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The train museum in Pine Bluff, Arkansas has the same sort of floor. They used that because the end grain is so much tougher than side grain.
Michael
yabut, end-grain *plywood*? There's just something wrong about that.
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takin' my 6x6 oak timbers and turnin' 'em into some decidedly not terribly attractive flooring.
I think a lot of 19th century factories had end-grain floors.
--RC
Well.now you have me thinking :)
a 3/4" sheet of plywood ripped into 3/4" pieces and stacked on a floor end grain up will price out to a little over a buck a square foot....and it would be unique :)
Hmm......
Rob
toller wrote: :
Make sure that stuff cures properly before putting food on it. Next time you could try walnut oil (edible, cures, has a nice amber cast to it).
-- Andy Barss
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