Pinstripe Inspired Cutting Board

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Sabrina Gubbels-Wingo

Mr. Grisbee

Design Tech

07 February 2022

Pinstripe Inspired Cutting Board




What is your project?
 My project was a cutting board inspired by a pinstripe design. The light stripes are made of maple wood and the darker stripes are made of walnut. 
 
How did you make it?
    First, we made our to-scale design on a piece of paper, specifying how much and what kind of wood we needed. Once the wood was in we cut it to width and glued it together. When the glue had dried we scraped off the excess and planed it. This insured that the board was level and fairly smooth. After this, we cut the longboard in half to make two smaller ones. To smooth it out further we sanded the surfaces, making sure to go with the grain to avoid any scratches. We then we routed the edges to round them off and completed sanding. When the sanding was complete we applied the first layer of finishing oil. We waited for this to dry for a few days and then came back and burnished the board with some steel wool to further smooth it out. Once we finished the first set of oiling and burnishing, we repeated this step and it was done!

What do you like most about your project?
    I think, aesthetically, it came out really nice and matched my image of what I thought it would look like. I also really like the process of creating something and transforming a measly piece of wood into something beautiful and functional. Also the routing. That was really fun (:


What was challenging about the project?
    The glue! Scraping the glue off was the most time-consuming and frustrating task. In the end, it left some marks on the board which was not ideal. 

What would you change about the project if you did it again? 
    I think I would apply less glue because that was the part that was most difficult and it could have been avoided. This would shave some time off the process and hopefully leave the future boards to come without marks from the glue scraping process. 

What is your plan for it now that it's done?
    My family loves to cook and bake so this cutting board will be put to good use!
 








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