All well done! I like the variety of woods in the last one.

 

Very nice, Mike! I've made a lot of cutting boards and trivets but never a Charcuterie board. One of these days, maybe...

 

woodn't they be the same thing? the new stylish charcuterie board is the old wood cutting board

i do like the last board firehawk, with a variety of colors in random width boards

 

Good use of scraps! Did you have to do anything specific to keep the padauk from bleeding color onto the maple?

I ask because I once turned a maple and padauk item, and when I applied CA, the padauk leaked red/orange all over the maple. I haven't tried combining them since that. 😟

 

BEAUTIFUL, those are really nice. I never heard of a Charcuterie board, but I have now, beautiful work.

 

Sanchez,
I use a Bosch random orbital sander. It has a pretty decent dust pickup. when I’m getting ready for he finish, I blow them off with an air nozzle, then wipe them with a tack rag. That seems to take care of the orange dust pretty well.
The only difference between a cutting board and a charcuterie board to me is the finish you put in. If someone is using one for a cutting board, I’ll use Howard’s butcher block finish, which is basically mineral oil. For the charcuterie boards, I use the salad bowl finish, which I think is just a thinned down varnish. It soaks in and seals he surface of the wood. If you put something like pepperoni on a cutting board, it will leave an orange stain. With the salad bowl finis, it won’t.
Mike Hawkins

 

I have heard folks call those Shark Coochie Boards.

Seems like a way of saying lay out a mess of lunchables on a nice cutting board...

 

Looks gorgeous! Do you use any sort of food safe glue or just the typical titebond? Also what did you finish it with? Mineral oil? Thanks!

 

I use Titebond III on most of my projects. I’m not aware of a food safe glue. For a finish on these I used two coats of salad bowl finish from General Finishes. It soaks in and dries and does more to seal the surface. I’ve used mineral oil in the past but found that something like pepperoni will leave an orange stain on the wood. Here’s my last one I made, actually made two of these just for a laugh.
Mike Hawkins

 

Turned out nice

 

They all look great! Nice work