Making a chopping board - skip find.

[jayonabike]

Neighbours over the road are having a new kitchen fitted with real wood work tops. The kitchen fitters threw this off cut in the skip which I noticed while walking the dog

Once I've cut it to size and sanded it down and put some rubber feet on it do I need to treat it with anything before using. Might get 2 boards out of it, it's a nice size.

 

[andytheflyer]

I've just done something similar! Had a new kitchen fitted and am about to start building a new model aeroplane from plans (so I have to draw and cut all of the wooden parts and assemble using the drawings).

Used the 500 x 1500 cutout from the sink/drainer to make a new modelling board (already had one from the previous worktop but it was a bit battered). Trimmed the edges straight and squared it up, framed it with softwood and glued on 2 layers of cork tiles. The beauty about worktop cutouts is that they are thick, heavy and dimensionally stable. That looks like a cracking cutting board! How anyone could throw out that beautiful off-cut is beyond me......

Think I'd sand yours to bare wood then oil it - Danish oil maybe - something light anyway.

 

[Profpointy]

I've done similar. I don't see much point in rubber feet - two surfaces will last twice as long. Worth sanding a small chamfer on each edge and corner. I oiled with vegetable oil.

 

[bancrobba]

Use a mineral based oil to protect, it is advised to avoid vegetable based as it goes off.

You can actually buy butchers block oil to finish and protect your board.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

What a great find!

I once kitted out an entire shop with the fruits of bin dipping!

Http://knowyourproduct.blogspot.co.uk/2006/07/expansion.html

 

[Aperitif]

I once built an aeroplane from a chopping board and skipped the offcuts. My neighbour rescued these oddments, and made 37 boxes of safety matches.

 

[Dayvo]

Looks like the kitchen top we got from IKEA (although they're much of a kind, I'd imagine).

We treated ours with this from IKEA - http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/50070378/

It gives a nice sheen and protects the wood, too.

 

[Profpointy]

I once built an aeroplane from a chopping board and skipped the offcuts. My neighbour rescued these oddments, and made 37 boxes of safety matches.

did you escape from Colditz in the plane ?

 

[snorri]

Chopping boards are better made from solid wood rather than on a board constructed of laminations held together by nasty epoxy glues, I think.

 

[Aperitif]

did you escape from Colditz in the plane ?

Tried to, but had to turn back because of the cold weather - couldn't cedar wood for the freeze.

 

[Dayvo]

Tried to, but had to turn back because of the cold weather - couldn't cedar wood for the freeze.

Poor bloak!

 

[Crackle]

Tried to, but had to turn back because of the cold weather - couldn't cedar wood for the freeze.

It was a pine attempt though.

 

[welsh dragon]

Stop making aspens of yourselves.

Mr WD made a chopping board from offcuts and sealed it with mineral oil. We've had it for years now and its still going strong.

 

[Profpointy]

Tried to, but had to turn back because of the cold weather - couldn't cedar wood for the freeze.

Joking aside for a moment, I had the great privilege of meeting someone, stayed at his house over a Christmas in fact, who was a "guest" at the Great Escape camp for much of the war. He was only a few numbers down the list from those who escaped, and were subsequently shot, so in a sense he was lucky not to have escaped. Although there were no Americans there I gather most of the things in the film were true, eg the mud down the trousers thing. He still had the clogs he'd worn after his boots hard worn out. He's no longer with us now, but it was a fine thing to have met him, and sat listening to him and his friend telling stories - mainly about Australian Socialist politics, where they'd also been comrades, rather than the War it must be said.

 

[Profpointy]

Chopping boards are better made from solid wood rather than on a board constructed of laminations held together by nasty epoxy glues, I think.

not true I believe. The posh ones are made of end-grain blocks stuck together.