Just did this very thing. Found a slab from the mill cut from a mulberry that had curled on the sides. Just couldn’t burn it so I ran a flat on the bottom, sanded the top, sealed the bark with epoxy and the top with oil and wax. Nice tray that the contents won’t roll off. Quick, creative, unique project
I have some really nice old applewood trees and stumps that have been dead along time now. And when i started to cut into some of them for different projects i, of course have some scrap pieces I've been mulling over what I'm going to do with them. Now i know! Thanks for sharing! 👍
Yeah - I'm wondering how Matt did that. I'm guessing---maybe some new fangled battery powered gizmo (that you attach to the arm somehow), which increases the sanding motion to a capacity similar to that of belt-sanders, or som'n. But.....it could also be magic that Matt may have learned from a "Wood" Elf.
Great to see Elm used, I get it for firewood too but it's one of my favourite woods looks wise. We have wych elm which can get very colourful and swirly grained, it's fun stuff for turning.
Great video when I was young we’d buy sawmill slabs for firewood usually cut to about 18” length each time I carried firewood in I would lay me a piece or 2 out to make stuff Thanks for sharing
Nice Matt. The finish shots are awesome. Very nice wood and super cool idea for the under-bevel. I was like, “noooooo” when the bark came off the walnut, but the end result was nice.
Always having fun! I need to learn your patience. Waiting a few weeks for wood to dry would drive me crazy, but I know it's worth it. Happy woodworking!
I brought some normal axe split wood in this winter to burn in the fireplace. As I was putting another log onto the fire I stopped and put one I liked the look of aside. The wife saw me and said “oh no, not again. Your going to keep that one aren’t you”? I just gave her a nod and took it out to the garage. So I understand when you have trouble burning stuff. Seems our don’t burn pile keeps getting bigger than our burn pile. Nice work on the trays and I like the way you shaved the bark off the walnut.
Amazing pieces to come from burn wood. Man i wish i could go back in time and stop myself from burning alot of the wood i burnt. It would have been worth a small fortune.
Really good idea to save those unique grain patterns on off cuts. I love the Walnut tray and the way you removed the bar but like you think the double bevel was a mistake. That finishing wax or whatever it was made those thing pop. Very cool sir.
It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby!! What's bad, is I could hear the resonance of that maple, as you were handling it. The wood from that tree would make a great sounding guitar.
way too funny, I'm a serious art wood addict, as a joke my friends would through a piece of driftwood in the fire pit just to watch me jump in there to save it, so true
Like the use of the materials. At my house wood eventually makes it's way to the smoker to create some tasty treat. On a different note I am at last ready to buy a new table saw and wanted to get your opinion on the Saw Stop table saw. I have narrowed my choice down to Powermatic and a Saw Stop. Thanks as always, love the content of your videos.
My firewood pile can fit in a 5 gallon bucket. Now I’m stopping on the side of the road to pick up fallen branches, my wife thinks I’m crazy, well maybe. There’s millions of board feet of fallen ash, here in Northern Kentucky, thanks to the emerald ash borer. I’m trying to get to it before it rots. I am finding a lot of spaulding now.
The next step will be when Lindsay starts picking over the slash and asking you to make things according to her suggestions. It will be so much fun to make that, won't it, Matt?
Nice boards Matt, but I wonder how much timber you would need before you are capable of fully committing offcuts to the burn bin? I know I keep tiny little scraps which will never be used, but I can't seem to get rid of them 👍👍
Parabéns Matthew sou se fã sou viciado em trabalhos com madeira mas aqui no Brasil alguns tem muito e outros não tem nada tenho uma furadeira e uma serra tico tico e algumas ferramentas improvisadas mesmo assim consigo fazer algumas coisas mais nem sempre consigo vender .ABRAÇO DE GILBERTO BRASIL.
Love the vids and I learn so much from you but I have a question... I thought that the General Finishes Salad Bowl Finish wasn't food safe??? Their website says to use their Butcher Block Oil for wood coming in contact with food.
Matthew Cremona you should make a display case/shelf for a project video. My wife is now getting into trading as her collection has been increasing. I feel like there is something new almost every day!
@@mcremona The Rea Dunn craze is alive & well a year later. I'm making my wife a bunch of stuff for displays and working on a charcuterie board/tray right now. Great video Matt!
By "washing machine," can I take that to mean a "dish-washer" machine? If so, you probably wouldn't want to put objects made of wood in a dish washer. Unless perhaps, that it was entirely coated in a finish that you know could stand up to all that hot water and soap (though I'm not aware of a food grade finish that might be rated for this). Otherwise, hot water and soap will quite likely substantially accelerate the drying out and cracking of the wood. Or, at least, ruin a finish that isn't made to stand up to dish-washer conditions. Some woods might hold up longer than others, but I couldn't tell you which species might. Yet, I do understand the need to keep food contact surfaces free as possible from various bacteria and pathogens. I guess it might sometimes be a toss up between wanting to preserve the wood's pristine beauty, vs. one's reasonable desire to remain healthy.
Yea sorry I ment dish washer I was always wondering about this, we have couple of one piece cutting board and they are OK had them for some time OIL them like once a year, so I think that glue is bigger problem than finish, this would be an interesting video how does these things work in real life environment.
Never get tired of seeing finish applied to walnut. Good job Matt.
Just did this very thing. Found a slab from the mill cut from a mulberry that had curled on the sides. Just couldn’t burn it so I ran a flat on the bottom, sanded the top, sealed the bark with epoxy and the top with oil and wax. Nice tray that the contents won’t roll off. Quick, creative, unique project
Cheese.....and cold cuts....on...exquisite..hand-crafted..wooden tray.......can't...take it!......must...go......eat....voraciously!......well...played, Matt.....well played....indeed!
The beauty of that “firewood” gave the Littlewierdshop a rise!... urrrr I stood up at attention!! 😜 Love these Matt! Thanks for the rescue. 👍
bahahahaha!!
I have some really nice old applewood trees and stumps that have been dead along time now. And when i started to cut into some of them for different projects i, of course have some scrap pieces I've been mulling over what I'm going to do with them. Now i know!
Thanks for sharing! 👍
WOW! I love how you take something from the fire wood pile and turn it into something beautiful and functional. So awesome - great job, Matt!
Thank you!
The sound of sped up finishing is a new happy place.
Yeah - I'm wondering how Matt did that. I'm guessing---maybe some new fangled battery powered gizmo (that you attach to the arm somehow), which increases the sanding motion to a capacity similar to that of belt-sanders, or som'n. But.....it could also be magic that Matt may have learned from a "Wood" Elf.
I am glad I am not the only one doing this. I really like to walnut piece. I too give them as gifts.
Great to see Elm used, I get it for firewood too but it's one of my favourite woods looks wise. We have wych elm which can get very colourful and swirly grained, it's fun stuff for turning.
Beautiful. All that awesome grain pop ! The live edges really are something special.
Those pieces are the best looking firewood I have ever seen. GREAT job.
Great video when I was young we’d buy sawmill slabs for firewood usually cut to about 18” length each time I carried firewood in I would lay me a piece or 2 out to make stuff
Thanks for sharing
Nice Matt. The finish shots are awesome. Very nice wood and super cool idea for the under-bevel. I was like, “noooooo” when the bark came off the walnut, but the end result was nice.
Hahaha I'm sure I could find another walnut chunk in the pile :)
Always having fun! I need to learn your patience. Waiting a few weeks for wood to dry would drive me crazy, but I know it's worth it. Happy woodworking!
Pretty easy when you're busy with other things :)
Awesome idea Matt. The simpler project often make some of the best projects.
thank you!
That scrap wood pile is my wet dream!
This will go a long way to helping others with mills at home and inundated with slabs. Wizard!
Mike
Hope so!
I brought some normal axe split wood in this winter to burn in the fireplace. As I was putting another log onto the fire I stopped and put one I liked the look of aside. The wife saw me and said “oh no, not again. Your going to keep that one aren’t you”? I just gave her a nod and took it out to the garage. So I understand when you have trouble burning stuff. Seems our don’t burn pile keeps getting bigger than our burn pile.
Nice work on the trays and I like the way you shaved the bark off the walnut.
Hahaha that's exactly my life! Thanks Mac!
Hear hear!
always fascinates me how something destined to be burnt or thrown away can be made into something useful and beautiful. well done matt
Thanks!
Simple, yet elegant. I like it.
Thanks Bruce!
👍👍👍 as a kid, saw mill slab firewood , was my woodworking supply.
Amazing pieces to come from burn wood. Man i wish i could go back in time and stop myself from burning alot of the wood i burnt. It would have been worth a small fortune.
Having a hard time throwing good wood into the fire... man, I know that feeling!
Really good idea to save those unique grain patterns on off cuts. I love the Walnut tray and the way you removed the bar but like you think the double bevel was a mistake. That finishing wax or whatever it was made those thing pop. Very cool sir.
Walnut is my favorite. Very nice.
Turned out looking pretty nice. Scrap or treasure is in the eye of the artist.
Quick and useful projects are awesome!
The Walnut board is my favorite.
Prosciutto, formaggio, e vino... Perfecto!
That’s an awesome quick project ! Thanks for sharing
That is making a silk purse from a sow’s ear. Nicely done as always.
It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby!! What's bad, is I could hear the resonance of that maple, as you were handling it. The wood from that tree would make a great sounding guitar.
Love that walnut piece!
I really like what that wax coat did.
Walnut and Firewood are two words I would never say together lol
lol
I do love the walnut piece with the two sides! Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
Great job Matt!
Thanks for the great videos. I'm a new woodworker and I'm learning so much. Huge fan!
Thank you!
carpenterhutch try T Wagner and my channel.
WIll do!
Right on brother , super cool👍🇺🇸
Awesome idea. I couldn't stand to throw away my Walnut offcuts, now I have a use when they're dry.
Awesome!
I love this! I love wood!💖
You 've made a few beautiful jewels from offcuts
Thanks!
way too funny, I'm a serious art wood addict, as a joke my friends would through a piece of driftwood in the fire pit just to watch me jump in there to save it, so true
Like the use of the materials. At my house wood eventually makes it's way to the smoker to create some tasty treat.
On a different note I am at last ready to buy a new table saw and wanted to get your opinion on the Saw Stop table saw. I have narrowed my choice down to Powermatic and a Saw Stop.
Thanks as always, love the content of your videos.
Just my observations: Marc Spagnolo uses Powermatic, "everyone" else seems to be using SawStop, except Matthias Wandel.
I have used Powermatic several times before along with a slew of others. Just looking for a honest opinion from Matt on Saw Stop. In Matt we trust.
Now what you're missing is some very good italian cheese and wine!!
I need to move next door to Matt. Wait, I already have my own scrap wood problem.
I thought you were recovering 😋
Well I should be getting the upper hand without any more MJBS production, but the scrap wood always find a way.
At least you have time to find creative uses for it all now
Just beautiful!
Great stuff. Thanks for talking us through.
Great idea! Looks amazing
Thank you!
very nice wood for this board!🍀
Some really nice pieces! 👍 Well done Matt! 👊
Thanks Fred!
Love your Work Matt ......
My firewood pile can fit in a 5 gallon bucket. Now I’m stopping on the side of the road to pick up fallen branches, my wife thinks I’m crazy, well maybe. There’s millions of board feet of fallen ash, here in Northern Kentucky, thanks to the emerald ash borer. I’m trying to get to it before it rots. I am finding a lot of spaulding now.
Very nice Matt
Thanks!
Your the best Matt.
now THAT'S "happy" woodworking :D
Nice project Matt! Thanks for sharing the video.😎👍JP
Thanks JP!
You're very welcome Matt 😎
Outstanding Matt, thanks for sharing.
Awesome job
Matt, in the metal working industry that little flat is called a “land”.
Nicely done.
Those look good, Matt, they would look great with a fan carved into them :>).
Those came out great!
You have some awesome offcuts and firewood hahahahah!
Cool idea! Probably not a good idea to come between Lindsey and wine LOL!
This would be great for making TV trays too. Just route down about a quarter inch but leave a decent rim width.
The next step will be when Lindsay starts picking over the slash and asking you to make things according to her suggestions. It will be so much fun to make that, won't it, Matt?
Got some of these lying around, reckon I'll try do the same
Looking forward to that!
They look good Matt! If anything that walnut one could just be a table centerpiece thingamig.
Pretty cool!!!!
Good thing you have a Wagner moisture meter. Anything Wagner is good.
Present company included
But the real question is what kind of wine is that? Thanks for the video! Those look great!
Hey Matt do some more short projects.. they make great fillers between long projects! 👍
I agree. Just have to come up with small projects that are interesting
Ok, something I think I can handle! Thanks Matt, I love em! :)
Nice boards Matt, but I wonder how much timber you would need before you are capable of fully committing offcuts to the burn bin? I know I keep tiny little scraps which will never be used, but I can't seem to get rid of them 👍👍
I would say that all your projects are wins. Can I get an AMEN?
EZ win Matt, nice one. Thumbs up my friend.
Thank you!!
@9:50.. Not sure if it was suggested, but perhaps drilling a thumb hole like an artists pallet would add to the mobility of the piece.
Take my money for the walnut one......lol. Just the thought of that walnut in the fireplace....😨
OH, yea, Matthew, I’m a real creeper. #1 baby, hello from Texas!
Thanks David! You're Number 1!!
Made a couple from mulberry at Christmas.
Nice idea
Parabéns Matthew sou se fã sou viciado em trabalhos com madeira mas aqui no Brasil alguns tem muito e outros não tem nada tenho uma furadeira e uma serra tico tico e algumas ferramentas improvisadas mesmo assim consigo fazer algumas coisas mais nem sempre consigo vender .ABRAÇO DE GILBERTO BRASIL.
Thanks for the great idea im going to turn mine into this years christmas presents
Awesome!!
Great Idea!
Matt,
Can you mention the type of finish you used and why?
Live edge I do with steel brush
I'm making some longer boards from some cherry slabs. I'll let ya know how they turn out!
Awesome!
Grab some old iron and make simple grab handles for the walnut, meebee a little thicker than coat hanger?
I like the elm better than the walnut.
Do you not fill all of those little 'potholes'? If not, at what point do you decide they are too much and need filling? Thanks.
Love the vids and I learn so much from you but I have a question... I thought that the General Finishes Salad Bowl Finish wasn't food safe??? Their website says to use their Butcher Block Oil for wood coming in contact with food.
Hey Matt great project. Is your wife crazy about Rae Dunn too? I have been building displays nonstop for for all my wife’s stuff!
yes, it's absolutely insane
Matthew Cremona you should make a display case/shelf for a project video. My wife is now getting into trading as her collection has been increasing. I feel like there is something new almost every day!
I refuse to encourage it. The display case is out kitchen cupboard. We have no other brand of mug and we have like 30 mugs
@@mcremona The Rea Dunn craze is alive & well a year later. I'm making my wife a bunch of stuff for displays and working on a charcuterie board/tray right now. Great video Matt!
@@rodneywalker9113 thanks!
How well did the bark hold up to use?
thank you see off cuts ( scraps ) just need a home
What was your finish sanding sandpaper grit ?
Looks great Matt! How are you liking the new DC so far? Any draw backs? Sorry if this was covered already.
It's been really great. Its so awesome having enough airflow at the tools. Separation still isn't great so I have to clean the filter every so often
Could cutting board like this be cleaned in washing machine ? I would like to make one that I can clean that way.
No, it should only be wiped with a damp cloth.
By "washing machine," can I take that to mean a "dish-washer" machine? If so, you probably wouldn't want to put objects made of wood in a dish washer. Unless perhaps, that it was entirely coated in a finish that you know could stand up to all that hot water and soap (though I'm not aware of a food grade finish that might be rated for this).
Otherwise, hot water and soap will quite likely substantially accelerate the drying out and cracking of the wood. Or, at least, ruin a finish that isn't made to stand up to dish-washer conditions. Some woods might hold up longer than others, but I couldn't tell you which species might.
Yet, I do understand the need to keep food contact surfaces free as possible from various bacteria and pathogens. I guess it might sometimes be a toss up between wanting to preserve the wood's pristine beauty, vs. one's reasonable desire to remain healthy.
Yea sorry I ment dish washer I was always wondering about this, we have couple of one piece cutting board and they are OK had them for some time OIL them like once a year, so I think that glue is bigger problem than finish, this would be an interesting video how does these things work in real life environment.
Maybe if you completely encapsulated with resin?
Can you provide a link to the finish applicator cloths you use please?
Great project. What epoxy were you using to fill the cracks?