JDW Photos and Life

I'll go back into hiding after this message. I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving. I mentioned yesterday that I took a class on the stairstep board. That was the first real class I have taken. I learned more about bandsaw setup than I did on cutting boards but that was my intent. The board used a LOT less wood than the board yesterday. It is smaller and thinner than my boards. It also ended up more square than rectangle. I haven't decided what to do with this. For now, it is on our coffee table. I need to find where they got such white maple! They also used a black walnut in place of "regular" walnut. I had a slab of walnut in my shop that I bought months ago at a sale here in town. I decided to do something a little different with it while using a scroll saw. It is more decorative than functional as it would not stand up well to a knife. However, I can imagine a  charcuterie board where one side is meat and the other cheese or similar arrangement. For now, I have...

I haven't sent anything out in a while so...... I was asked to make a couple of boards by a friend. They didn't offer any guidance on design - just telling me to decide. I had been wanting to make this basket weave pattern for a while but really didn't need another board in my house. This request gave me the incentive to make one. I added a very thin walnut veneer to help delineate the pattern and then used walnut for the outside edge. The blocks are cherry outlined in maple and then the thin walnut veneer. I'm happy with how it turned out. For the second board, I made a stair pattern that I had taken a class on a few weeks ago. The class focused on using a bandsaw for the majority of cuts instead of the table saw. I wanted to get more comfortable with the bandsaw and how it could be used in precision patterns. This isn't the board made in the class since my customer wanted a larger board. Besides, I was able to reinforce what I had learned in the class by building ...