Cutting Board- Design Tech Project
For this project, we began by creating a design in Adobe Illustrator. Once we had finalized our design we started gathering our pieces of wood, making sure that we had the correct sizes and the correct type of wood. After gluing all of the pieces together we sanded vigorously until the wood was smooth. To ensure the wood was on the same level we used a planer. One of the final steps was using a table router to make our edges either rounder or at a 45-degree angle. Before we could see the final product we used a finishing oil that smoothed out the surface and gave it a nice shine. One of our last steps was burnishing with steel wood this took off the first layer of finishing oil while simultaneously making the surface extremely smooth. As our final step, we coated the cutting board in finishing oil once more. My favorite part about this project was gluing all of my pieces together and seeing how sturdy they were, this part was my favorite because it was the step where you could really s...