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"The Flag" Wooden Cutting Board - Design Tech Project

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  What is your project? I created an alternating wood cutting board made out of maple, walnut, and cherry wood. How did you make it? I cut two strips of both cherry and walnut wood at the 12" inch mark, as well as a singular strip for the maple in the middle. I then planed and leveled the excess wood, routed the sides and corners for rounder edges, sanded it, and finished with applying linseed oil and beeswax mix.   What do you like most about your project? I like that my simplistic design turned out really well, and that I learned a great deal of how to polish it up on the way.   What was challenging about this project? I would say that student and teacher absences did slow down the progress of my project. Regardless I do like how it came out and how I was able to finish a great deal on the last day. What would you change about the project if you did it again? I think I would add a more interesting level of detail in design, such as using the laser cutter to engrave a symbol on m

Variety Wood Cutting Board- Design Tech Project

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Variety Wood Cutting Board  Sofi Savarese  What is your project? My project is a cutting board made of multiple slabs of different kinds of wood.  How did you make it? I began the process  by getting three different planks of wood, maple, cherry, and walnut. I then did a rip cut on the table slaw to the three strips of wood. I then cross-cut them to the length of my cutting board. Once I was finished with all of the cuts I glued all of the pieces of wood together with wood glue and used a clamp to hold them together. Once the glue had dried I took the claps off and cut over the top and bottom of the board. I passed the cutting board through a thickness planer. This cuts down the thickness of the wood and assures that the cutting board is even. After I was finished with this, I rounded all of the sides and edges with a router. this makes the final product look put together. I then sanded down all of the sides and put finishing oil on the wood to create the final product.  What do yo

Design Tech Two Sided Racing Stripes Cutting Board

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               What is your project? My project is a cutting board made out of walnut and cherry wood. It has two racing stripes down one side, and one stripe on the other side.  How did you make it? I made it by first drawing out a sketch of the cutting board that was half the scale of my actual cutting board. I then found two pieces of wood that would fit my cutting board, one big piece of walnut, and two smaller pieces of maple. I then used a ruler and pencil to measure out the dimensions of the wood. After figuring out the math and measurements, I rip cut the wood to be the exact width needed. After the rip cuts, we cross-cut the pieces of wood to make the length exact. Once we had all the pieces of wood, we glued together the wood to create our cutting board. After letting the glue dry, we used the planer to level out the cutting board and make it all even. After it was planed we used the router to round edges. We then finished it by sanding it and applying finishing oil.  What

Walnut and Cherry Tracks - Design Tech Project

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Everest Leo 3 Wood Cutting Board This is my 12" x 8" cutting board made from walnut (the dark wood), cherry (the lighter, pinkish wood), and maple (the lightest wood) wood. To make this, I started out by using a table saw to cut the pieces of wood I needed for the board, to the lengths that I needed first, then to the widths that I needed. After that, I used wood glue to glue the strips of wood together and I clamped them together so they would stay in one piece once it dried. After it was done drying I used a planer to level out the thickness of the board as some parts were taller than others. This left me with a nice evenly thick board, but it was still not evenly wide in all places so I used the table saw to even out the width. Then, to add a cleaner touch to the board, I used a router table with a round-over bit to round the edges of the cutting board, which also made it less sharp and better to hold in general. Now that the dimensions/design of the board were done it was

Light and Dark Contrast Cutting Board- Design Tech Project

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What is your project? My project is a functional, and good-looking cutting board, made from walnut and maple wood. How did you make it? first I drew out my design, with specific measurements (walnut- 13.5in long, 1in wide, x7. maple- 13.5in long, 1/6in thick, x6), and chose the woods I wanted to use. My second step was cutting my wood into strips, doing a rip cut. After all my woods were at the same thickness, I used a cross cut to make them all the same lengths. Then, I glued them together using wood glue, and put them into a clamp to keep them pushing together while they dried. After they were all glued together, I used the planer to shave off tiny layers from the top, to make the cutting board even. After that was done, I rounded the edges using the router. Then I sanded the whole cutting board by hand, going from 220 grit to 320 grit. My final step was to apply the finishing oil and let it dry.  What do you like most about your project? I like the color scheme the most because it&#

The Racing Stripe - Design Tech Project

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 Wyatt Quillin Mr. Grisbee Design Tech 19 May 2021 Design Tech Cutting Board       What is My Project? My project is a small cutting board made out of walnut, cherry, and maple woods. It is rounded at the edges and finished with oil.      How Did I Make It? First, I drew the design on paper and calculated the measurements for the cuts. Next, I got my wood and did the initial cuts, and figured out which pieces of wood I could cut again to conserve the amount of wood I used. Next, I did the second round of cuts and glued the pieces together. The next step was to plane the board and use the router to round the edges. The last two steps were to thoroughly sand it and finish the piece with oil.      What Do I Like Most About My Project? I really like how we were able to use different types of wood, which allowed for another design element. I really like the "racing stripe" on my board, and overall it was really fun and educational to make.     What Was Challenging About The Projec

The Surprise! -Design Tech Project

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  What is your project? This is my cutting board. It is made out of Maple, Cherry, and Walnut wood.  How did you make it? I made this cutting board by first choosing the wood that I wanted to use. I proceeded to figure out how much wood I needed and make sure that I had the right measurements. I used a table saw to cut my wood into the right with and length. After my pieces were cut I glued them together and used clamps to make sure they were glued correctly. Once my wood pieces made a board I put them through a Plainer to make sure all of the pieces were the same thickness. I proceeded to rout the edges and sand my board. Once it was smooth, I added the finishing to bring out the color and make it more durable.  What do you like most about your project? My favorite part of making my project was cutting all the pieces of wood and using all the machines.  What was challenging about this project? A challenge that I had while making my board was making sure all of my measurements in the p

CMW Cutting Board - Design Tech Project

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  What is your project? My project is a cutting board made out of a combination of walnut, maple and cherry wood. How did you make it? I used a table saw to cut out 6 pieces of walnut, maple and cherry wood. I proceeded to glue them together and use a planer to make the surface of the cutting board smooth. Lastly, I used a router to smoothen out the corners of the cutting board. What do you like the most about your project? What I like the most about my project is how the different colors of the wood compliment each other really well. What was challenging about the project? The most challenging part of the project was how to get the exact length of each piece of wood properly as the wood would sometimes be too short or too long and it was quite annoying to get the pieces of wood to the right length. What would you change about the project if I did it again? I would probably make the pieces of wood a little wider as I feel that my cutting board is a little too small. What is your plan f

Cherry Wood Cutting Board - Design Tech Project

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What is your project? I created a cherry wood cutting board. It is a total of 2 planks of wood, both cut in half and lined up, so it is now 4 separate pieces.  How did you make it? I cut 2 planks of cherry wood in half, planed and leveled, routed the corners off, and finished with a linseed oil and beeswax mix.  What do you like most about your project? I like that I was able to create something that is going to be useful to me in my house. My family does a lot of cooking, and it certainly will not hurt to have another cutting board! What was challenging about this project? To be honest, it wasn't. the toughest part for me was that I wanted to do more, but as our previous project ran longer than expected, I was not able to add in those touches. What would you change about the project if you did it again? I just wish that we could have had those originally planned classes. That was the only facet of this project that I had any real issue with.  What is your plan for it now that it&#