Built In Cutting Board Replacement
Since I've been doing this handyman stuff officially for around half a year now, I figured I should start taking pictures of some of the things I've worked on and posting about it. So here's something I recently worked on and managed to actually remember to take some pictures of.
On some of the older style houses, there's a built-in pull out style cutting board. It was getting a bit too crusty like for must customer. They went and bought this really nice Ikea bamboo cutting board and wanted to replace the old one with the Ikea board. Here's a side by side of the nice and new versus the crusty-ness of the old
Took both of them to town on a table saw. Trimmed off the wood stained "handle" from the original for re-use. Trimmed off the extra protruding handle and cut the bamboo cutting board to size. Interesting note, the middle of the Ikea board isn't quite solid! So I made another cut in order to glue back the edge piece and remove a slice from the middle of the Ikea board.
So here's the couple of pieces held in place by some painter's tape to check for sizing. And later marked at 4 place per cut for drilling some dowels (which I forgot to take photos of, *sigh*).
After adding 4x 1/2" dowels per cut, I went ahead and started gluing it up and clamping it together. I realized after the fact that it may have helped if I used a piece of spacer wood between the clamps and the final piece, but eh, I forgot. And then there's my cup of coffee... I don't recommend wood glue as creamer.
On some of the older style houses, there's a built-in pull out style cutting board. It was getting a bit too crusty like for must customer. They went and bought this really nice Ikea bamboo cutting board and wanted to replace the old one with the Ikea board. Here's a side by side of the nice and new versus the crusty-ness of the old
Took both of them to town on a table saw. Trimmed off the wood stained "handle" from the original for re-use. Trimmed off the extra protruding handle and cut the bamboo cutting board to size. Interesting note, the middle of the Ikea board isn't quite solid! So I made another cut in order to glue back the edge piece and remove a slice from the middle of the Ikea board.
So here's the couple of pieces held in place by some painter's tape to check for sizing. And later marked at 4 place per cut for drilling some dowels (which I forgot to take photos of, *sigh*).
After adding 4x 1/2" dowels per cut, I went ahead and started gluing it up and clamping it together. I realized after the fact that it may have helped if I used a piece of spacer wood between the clamps and the final piece, but eh, I forgot. And then there's my cup of coffee... I don't recommend wood glue as creamer.
Missing photos include the happy smiling customer and me lightly coating the finished cutting board with some cutting board oil, Boo's Magic Oil. I rubbed it in with paper towel, don't do this, terrible mistake, I'd recommend lint free stuff in the future.
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