Thanks for posting this. I, too, am an MTMWood fan and I think this will be my next project. It's good to see how these can be made in a shop with tools that look more like mine (not as high end).
@@rosenbloom8 Bro, you scared me! Never use the table saw that way, especially with a blade that burns the wood. Clean your blades and practice a little shop safety. :(
Nice work Carter. The illusion at the end is great. Just a small tip, when you do your glue joints, sprinkle a small amount of salt over the glue and it will stop it from slipping under clamp pressure. It does not affect the glue joint at all.
Great job, you make it look so easy.I really like the illusion the patern gives.I hope to try it with the tools I have. Thanks for taking the time to make the video for others.
I see a lot of expert commenters here...your saw this, your technique that, your glue bla bla bla. I've met guys like this in real life. They're the ones that always have something to say but never have something they've made! Here's what I saw: an excellent looking final piece, a guy who has all 10 fingers and his shop is organized and clean. The haters, well they've got their comments...oooh how exciting for them
What's not exciting is when a novice watches how he uses the push stick on the wrong side of the blade and duplicates him eventually resulting in injury from kickback, not to mention his ripped pieces are guaranteed out of square/bowed with saw blade burn marks. If someone drinks alcohol then drives and they make it home it doesn't mean it's fine keep doing that. Kids please, don't use a push stick on the side of the blade away from the fence because this guy still "has all 10 fingers" as his method is unsafe!
Thanks Carter! I tried one of these using a different method and it didn't turn out great. You method looks like it will result in a better finished product. Also, pay no attention to the negative comments!
Really like the video. But one suggestion. After you plane the face of the wood, put that face on the fence of your jointer to plane the edge. That way the edge and the face are exactly 90 when you square the rest of the piece with a planer.
Omg that was awesome! I was a carpenter for 30 years now I'm trying my hand at woodworking because I miss doing the job and my body is all messed up. I'm watching thinking why is he cutting it again after he just put that 45 on it then it hit me and I thought ohhh I see what he did! Now I know how to make a 3D cutting board!!!
This is so much easier than my attempt that produced a bag of tri-diamond end chunks that don't fit snugly due to trying to clamp 6 sided lengths unsuccessfully. Thank you for another way of doing this design. I do make the prettiest and most expensive firewood in the city though.
Pretty nice piece of work. I also have been inspired by MTM's cutting boards. Your board caught my eye, and at first, thought it was an MTM design. Very nice work. Not sure I'd exactly follow your table saw technique though. It looks a little awkward at times. May I suggest you use a 40 tooth triple chip rip blade rather than the 60 tooth narrow kerf blade that you're using. You're 60 tooth blade is loading up and can't clear the chip fast enough so you're getting a lot of heat, occasionally burning in the kerf, and shorter life on a sharpening caused by excessive heat. The blade you're using would be much better for ripping plywood or crosscutting some hardwoods on a miter saw. Just my opinion and it's worth every penny you paid for it.
in my infinite ignorance, I thought these boards were made 1 piece at a time..... Thanks for the video, very entertaining. I am not sure why i watched it, but I enjoyed it.
Anyone else notice that he placed the unjointed wide side of the board against the fence when he placed it down to joint the edge at the very beginning of the video?
Dear Carter, that is a great job! What wood did you use? In some comment you offer to provide with the plan with dimension, how could I get it? Thank you in advance!
I love your video and would like to attempt making one. Could you share some dimensions? Carter, What are the L & W dimensions of the boards your starting with in this video, and the finished board. Thank you !
Right before you flip and clamp up the board, when it is still lying there as one glue covered piece, give it a slight dusting of salt, it will help to control them sliding around ;)
When you are making your 60 degree cuts in the glued up boards, you took a parallelogram piece and marked your cut lines. How did you determine the width of the cuts?
Finished product is very nice, but, dude - only the riving knife stood between you and some serious kickback. Might want to rethink how you make that cut safely.
Thank you for sharing this. I would like to make one of these for my son and have the finished board be 15x20 x2 . What would the measurments of the "sandwiches " be? I just finished a practice one that started with 8x12 sandwiches of pine and oak and pine and cherry it ended up being 16 inches long and 5 1/2 wide
I have watched this demo a lot to try to pickup what he was doing. I would have been helpful if he would’ve Tarth us thru what he was doing at each step.
