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Stacking end grain pieces within an end grain cutting board?
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I have a bunch of #3s , maple and walnut, for making an end-grain cutting board. I cut my stock into #3s rather than gluing sticks together because the board’s design will be a haphazard placement walnut and maple of squares.
Since I have no more stock, I want to glue those #1s together, in the configuration shown by #2 , to make more #3s .
I will then have some #3s that are naturally contiguous pieces of wood and some #3s that are engineered from #1s .
In the finished board, both kinds of #3 blocks will stand on end grain and will be glued to their neighboring blocks along side-grain surfaces.
My question is: because end-grain cutting boards are already quite subject to wood movement, would mixing the engineered #3s among the naturally contiguous #3s create a greater risk of splitting or joint failure?
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I have a bunch of #3s , maple and walnut, for making an end-grain cutting board. I cut my stock into #3s rather than gluing sticks together because the board’s design will be a haphazard placement walnut and maple of squares.
Since I have no more stock, I want to glue those #1s together, in the configuration shown by #2 , to make more #3s .
I will then have some #3s that are naturally contiguous pieces of wood and some #3s that are engineered from #1s .
In the finished board, both kinds of #3 blocks will stand on end grain and will be glued to their neighboring blocks along side-grain surfaces.
My question is: because end-grain cutting boards are already quite subject to wood movement, would mixing the engineered #3s among the naturally contiguous #3s create a greater risk of splitting or joint failure?
#diy
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