Personal Kitchen cutting board - design tech project

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For this project I made a cutting board. We started by paring up into partners. Next, together with out partners we sketched a design for our cutting boards including the pattern dimensions and type of woods that we will use. After that we cut our different pieces of wood into the strips we need using the table saw, and glue the pieces together in our chosen pattern. After the glue dries we put our wood into the planer to make sure everything is smooth and even. And back to the table saw it is to cut the edges so they all line up and divide the board into two different cutting boards for each of us. In this next process we use the router to create an edge of our choice, for my cutting board I decided to round all of the edges. Then it's time sand. Once we are done sanding we varnish our pieces of wood and let it dry. Once done drying we vernish our pieces of wood with metal wool, this makes our pieces of wood feel softer. after that were done. This was my final product. 



My favorite part of making my cutting board was learning how to use all of the different power tools we have in the tinkeria. The most challenging part of this project was definitely the gluing process, this was difficult because it was very hard to keep all of the pieces of wood together without them becoming too uneven to smooth out using the planer. If I could change one thing about this project it would definitely be to redo the side of my cutting board that had a scratch on it as it took away from the look that I wanted to achieve. Looking ahead I plan to use this cutting board in my kitchen or maybe give it to my grandparents so they can use it. Anyways I had a lot of fun making my cutting board and learning how to use all of our different power tools.

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