I'm not claiming it's a good idea but it's something I wanted to try and had to give it a go! I ended up doing a lot of voiceover in this video which isn't what I usually do, it just worked out that way! :)
As an amateur with woodworker, i typically feel overpowered with the entire arrangement ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxrYREG3-7f1Aqk9ams3ZESRNzGnfdUtyQ . Be that as it may, this arrangements drove me through with much clarity and effortlessness woodplans. Works i now work like a genius. That is great!
I know you're just joking but for anyone curious about the actual ratio it's closer to 90% (by volume). Hexagonally packed circles cover about 90.69% of an area. The exact formula (assuming no squishing of the wood) to calculate the fraction of circles within a given area is: (π√3)/6 ≈ 0.9096 With the wood being squished together, I'd guess the board is likely closer to 95% wood.
@@ChazAllenUK "And hence less circular?" Yes. They become closer to a hexagon in shape. Perfect hexagons don't leave any gaps. The packing ratio of the bamboo skews is likely better than the ratio for cylinders since they're squished into hexagonal shapes. At 5:20 they look more like hexagons than circles.
Ambitious project. I am a fan of bamboo skewers instead of screws when securing two pieces of wood. I never thought of a end grain cutting board. Excellent video and process. You have done it again Professor. Keep up the excellent work. Thank you for sharing.
Me before watching video: "What an amazing project. I'm definitely going to have to make one myself. I wonder what techniques are involved..." Me after watching video: "Noooooooooooooooooooope."
Started watching this and initially thought this guys off his trolly, was sucked in and saw an Amazing result, great job. Totally impressed by his skill and degree of patience.
I just finished making one of these for myself. Used supermarket-bought skewers, and they were a lot thinner than the ones in the video. Board was also a little bigger. Ended up using 4,500+ full skewers, each cut into 5 pieces, for a total of 22,000+ pieces. Took several weeks to get it all done, but totally worth it. Looks great, very solid. Would recommend that if you do this that you use thick skewers, and more glue than you think. It was a little bit flexible before I put the edging on.
Such patience! I mostly appreciated your willingness to try new approaches .. to experiment .. and not be afraid to fail. Great project. Thanks for posting.
My husband is a wood worker (in his spare time). He makes furniture and also likes smaller type projects as well. I will show him your video, but I doubt I can get him to make it. However, I think it looks very nice and it is unique. Great job :)
This is cool, could have done without the feet, use a tea-towel or whatever non-aussies call the drying cloth for your dishes and it will give the cutting board a non-slip effect.
Beautiful, instant sub right there. Great attention to detail, thats what i like to see. You saw even after a few days of work gluing it wasn't to the level of finish you were after, so you scrapped the idea and did something else entirely to get the best outcome/outcome you desired. Mark of a great creator! Top Job.
I really enjoyed this a lot. I’m happy you showed the flaws and how you altered the plan/idea as problems arose. This seemed very therapeutic and I could see how an occupational therapist could implement this in their treatment plans. All in all well done and thanks for posting it.
"I think I could definitly do a better job if I were to do it again, but I'm really not sure I ever would, but you never know, maybe". Oh, if I had a dime for every time I said that.
You have amazing patience! I couldn't even make it 1/3 way through the vid! I hope the board gives a lifetime of service to offset your time and glue! Power to your work, Sir!
cool Idea, but I would usually not recommend plaining endgrain (as you've seen, stuff can easily break of and also it dulls your blade quiet badly). I use a beltsander for my endgrain board...and then finishing with an orbital sander: works fine and fairly quickly and more importantly: the orbital sander on endgrain at the end gives it the smoothest finish you will ever feel on wood ;)
You would never know what you’re going to get if you don’t even try ...good for you for doing so...it looks amazing I truly love it 🥰 the colours looked beautiful...it was worth the effort...congratulations
Pretty good? Looks fantastic! I loved it, such patience! But the part with the glue mud was not that tasty for me at least xD Not sure I would enjoy being with my hands in such a mess. I know my project is called get hands dirty but I kinda like to have my hands clean but thoughtful :D
Thanks very much Cris! I really thought you of all people wouldn't mind getting their hands dirty! ;) Just think of the fun peeling of dried glue for the next few hours, very satisfying! :)
Pask Makes ohhh the peeling...😍 I might reconsider!! Ahah I probably would. It just depends on the materials. If it's something oily/greasy I wouldn't like at all.
Glue is one of the reasons I wouldn't use bamboo for a cutting board, the amount of silica is another. It has made me think about all the disposable chopsticks that could be repurposed though.
Lovely idea and production ! I don't have feet on my boards, because I like to use both sides of the board. I have finger grooves down the short edges. Keep making stuff ! Stu
LMMFBO dude you gotta have the patience of a Buddhist monk. I would have jumped head first into my wood chipper after 5 minutes of that. Great job, I love all types of wood working and now skews are on my list of future headaches. Thanks for the video and keep up the wood.
I can recommend the small translucent rubberlike dots that you use on doors and drawers to give them a slightly less noisy closing, as "feet" for cutting boards, sticks good to kitchen benches and is supercheap and easy to replace should it be necessary :)
That's great. I did make a panel from skewers and hot glue that I showed some Tim ago on Instagram. I was going to keep adding to it and make a full cube but it never happened. I was going to attempt to drive one wheel of my truck up and onto it and see how strong they are. :)
Hehe, nice one... You can use a little blob of hot glue for the legs. When it hardens, drill small hole and screw a 2-3mm screw. Or the one you have, just that it is smaller than the blob and the head can sink in. I use it on smaller boards without the screw, regardless of the boards been oiled with mineral oil. It holds enough. On big ones, i make bit biger blob of glue, screw it and dab a bit over the screw head hole.
What a cool end result! It reminds me of a cutting board that looks like a corkboard! I wouldn't have rounded off the edges so much, and I wouldn't have screwed in feet (as a serious cook, my dad made me a typical butcher pattern endgrain block, and he left it very square with barely broken edges and without feet since I would stand the board on its side in a rack to dry, he also routered in about a quarter inch deep finger slot on either side. No feet kind of doubles the lifespan of the board, it lets you flip it as you need. Still, I bet that thing is fun to cut on. Bamboo isn't quite as fast as hardwood, but it is 100% sustainable and still very good.
Another amazing video and the chopping board looks quite original. I'm a huge fan of bamboo skewers and their multiple applications. Stir sticks are another great option. I have made a decent smartphone case out of them but instead of wood glue, I've used cyanoacrylate. Great project, simple and entertaining. Thank you for posting.
I was honestly just thinking about doing this with small dowels. You just helped me think about some of the challenges I am going to face. I was planning to use several different sizes of dowels and wasn't sure how I was going to fill the gaps. Well looks like I will be using these bamboo skewers for my filler. I also thought of cutting some triangular strips to fill gaps also. Perhaps I will do both.
I like the "buzzing" sound of the vehicles passing by when you play back above normal speed. Sounds almost like a race track in front of your place. And the cutting board, way too cool for school. The guillotine you used to cut the miters on the trim, when I was quite a bit younger, I worked at a picture framing shop where we used the same type machine to cut corners for picture frames. While cutting a very small frame, the right blade found my index finger and cut from the first knuckle into the nail about half way. I still have the scar to this day...
there were a couple of times I thought you wood (lol) would toss it. But you persevered and finished. I have to say that I did not think it would turn out but you did and it looks fine.
Hey friend. In the future when treating with mineral oil on an end grain board, you’ll find that if you soak it, coat by coat, from one side only with oil... eventually you will see the oil start to wick through to the other side. You can literally soak the entire board through and through which ensures that it is completely treated. This is important because it allows you to soak your board in the sink when you’re washing it, and even run it through the dishwasher (on low heat). And of course, ensures proper microbial protection from bacteria and fungi.
man thats awesome Mr Neil never seen this done before you do have a great sense of creativity i ran across your youtube by accident and been watching you since really enjoy watching you hope you put more videos up
😊 Wow! Good vid, good idea! Love the fact you brought to bare that you can make "really" strong cutting board out anything your imagination can come up with! 👍 Thank you!
I made one recently such a long and frustrating build. Looks great though love the look. I made it because of this video and fell in love with it. Just so darn frustrating, it was definitly a Darwin type of cutting board.
Such an great project. I'd be interested to hear down the track sometime if all of that glue in the voids between the skewers moves around a lot creating an uneven rough surface. It's easily sanded back of course, but I have had issues with raised glue lines between boards on dining tables when using Titebond II or III. 👍👍👍
Fantastic job, you have the patience of 100 men Ha Ha. Similar to those that make the segmented vases with 30,000 pieces 😭😭😭. Came together very well. 👍. Cheers, Sean
All those tiny bits of bamboo.... they would have had to have me committed to an insane asylum, I would have lost my mind. That project turned out incredible.
I'm not claiming it's a good idea but it's something I wanted to try and had to give it a go! I ended up doing a lot of voiceover in this video which isn't what I usually do, it just worked out that way! :)
Sometimes you need a voice over to make things PG... I wish I could do that in real life! Fun project!
It’s amazing !!!!!!
I quite like the voiceovers, its like an audiobook😄
Thanks James! :)
You have some patients cobber
When I was a kid I had a teacher who used to say "Beware the fury of a patient man".
He must have had you in mind. :-)
Nice one.
My gramma used to say to 'never p*ss off a woman who does needlepoint...she's proven that she has the patience to stab something a few thousand times'
As an amateur with woodworker, i typically feel overpowered with the entire arrangement ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxrYREG3-7f1Aqk9ams3ZESRNzGnfdUtyQ . Be that as it may, this arrangements drove me through with much clarity and effortlessness woodplans. Works i now work like a genius. That is great!
The board is 2/3 skewers, 1/3 glue 😆
I know you're just joking but for anyone curious about the actual ratio it's closer to 90% (by volume).
Hexagonally packed circles cover about 90.69% of an area. The exact formula (assuming no squishing of the wood) to calculate the fraction of circles within a given area is:
(π√3)/6 ≈ 0.9096
With the wood being squished together, I'd guess the board is likely closer to 95% wood.
@@ddegn oh wow
@@ddegn "With the wood being squished together..."
And hence less circular?
@@ChazAllenUK "And hence less circular?"
Yes. They become closer to a hexagon in shape. Perfect hexagons don't leave any gaps.
The packing ratio of the bamboo skews is likely better than the ratio for cylinders since they're squished into hexagonal shapes.
At 5:20 they look more like hexagons than circles.
@@ddegn My head hurts after I read that
4:18 Anyone else noticing an optic illusion? It looked like the corner pointed away from the screen and the angles of the bamboo were all messy.
I see what you mean 😏 idk about you but switching between optical illusions and how true angles perceived, makes my brain smile
I do like your use of Silky Oak in the border frame. It lends a pleasing dark constant and enhances the appearance of finished piece.
Fantastic! Waited for the close up at the end and was not disappointed! 👍
Glad you like it! :)
Ambitious project. I am a fan of bamboo skewers instead of screws when securing two pieces of wood. I never thought of a end grain cutting board.
Excellent video and process. You have done it again Professor. Keep up the excellent work. Thank you for sharing.
Me before watching video: "What an amazing project. I'm definitely going to have to make one myself. I wonder what techniques are involved..."
Me after watching video: "Noooooooooooooooooooope."
Why not?
@@nowonmetube glue under your nails
@@greengreen110 wear gloves?
@@nowonmetube nah, to much work
@@greengreen110 putting gloves 🧤 on its too much work? Lmao
In the last shot it's look like golf balls, surreal !
Loved the chips-mayo technique! I think I'll try that (guess I'm not through with finger painting yet).
Started watching this and initially thought this guys off his trolly, was sucked in and saw an Amazing result, great job. Totally impressed by his skill and degree of patience.
I think that came out really nice, sometimes you just need to spend a few hours and get messy to relax...and audiobooks sure help haha
I just finished making one of these for myself. Used supermarket-bought skewers, and they were a lot thinner than the ones in the video. Board was also a little bigger. Ended up using 4,500+ full skewers, each cut into 5 pieces, for a total of 22,000+ pieces. Took several weeks to get it all done, but totally worth it. Looks great, very solid. Would recommend that if you do this that you use thick skewers, and more glue than you think. It was a little bit flexible before I put the edging on.
Fantastic, you need to have it standing next to a bamboo-skewer knife block - so now you need to make.....
those things are filthy tho. Germ collectors and impossible to clean
I can't believe you glued them in individually. That's tenacity!
Wow. Your patience is impressive. You are a master woodworker my friend. Beautiful job!!
Xoxox from FLORIDA
That’s really cool!
Thanks very much David! :)
Such patience! I mostly appreciated your willingness to try new approaches .. to experiment .. and not be afraid to fail. Great project. Thanks for posting.
Thanks very much Todd! :)
Really cool, man. Great problem solving, too. And great editing. You got talent.
Thanks very much Mariano! :)
Idk if this is great problem solving though, you just dont make a cutting board for food with wood glue...
Lea Schmitt Whatever, man.
My husband is a wood worker (in his spare time). He makes furniture and also likes smaller type projects as well. I will show him your video, but I doubt I can get him to make it. However, I think it looks very nice and it is unique. Great job :)
This would look even more awesome with dyed bamboo skewers, but still amazing job and fun project!
This is cool, could have done without the feet, use a tea-towel or whatever non-aussies call the drying cloth for your dishes and it will give the cutting board a non-slip effect.
Beautiful, instant sub right there. Great attention to detail, thats what i like to see. You saw even after a few days of work gluing it wasn't to the level of finish you were after, so you scrapped the idea and did something else entirely to get the best outcome/outcome you desired. Mark of a great creator! Top Job.
Thanks very much Daniel - glad you enjoyed it! :)
That is amazing work and it looks super. Really cool idea. Thumbs up! :-)
I'm glad you persevered because the final product looks great!
I hope to have a shed like yours one day! Until then the ideas stay on paper and in AutoCAD.
same, get on with it, time doesn't wait for us man! peace
I absolutely love the final shot of the end grain. It's like little wooden snowflakes.
Why didn’t you use resin for this project
Resin for? This is a chopping board. You cant use resin as a chopping board.
That turned out really great looking in the end, fair play to you, nice to see a new take on this sort of thing.
Thanks James! :)
I really enjoyed this a lot. I’m happy you showed the flaws and how you altered the plan/idea as problems arose. This seemed very therapeutic and I could see how an occupational therapist could implement this in their treatment plans. All in all well done and thanks for posting it.
Brings a whole new meaning to end grain cutting boards, brilliant job mate always a pleasure watching your work.
Thanks very much Riaan! :)
That cutting board is off the chain. Great work.
That very last second close up shot of the board (cell structure? grain?) was cool!!!
You are crazy. I liked that a lot though! Haha
WOW... it actually turned out much better than I thought
"I think I could definitly do a better job if I were to do it again, but I'm really not sure I ever would, but you never know, maybe".
Oh, if I had a dime for every time I said that.
You have amazing patience!
I couldn't even make it 1/3 way through the vid!
I hope the board gives a lifetime of service to offset your time and glue!
Power to your work, Sir!
I may have to do this, now. I just learned how to make box joints, so that's what I'll use for the outside trim. Thanks very much.
Sounds like a good idea Mike! :)
Wow!
I admire your patience and determination!
Great result, didn't expect that!
Thanks very much mate! :)
cool Idea, but I would usually not recommend plaining endgrain (as you've seen, stuff can easily break of and also it dulls your blade quiet badly). I use a beltsander for my endgrain board...and then finishing with an orbital sander: works fine and fairly quickly and more importantly: the orbital sander on endgrain at the end gives it the smoothest finish you will ever feel on wood ;)
You would never know what you’re going to get if you don’t even try ...good for you for doing so...it looks amazing I truly love it 🥰 the colours looked beautiful...it was worth the effort...congratulations
One of the best cutting board videos I have watched. Such a creative way to use those skewers. You killed it Pask!
Thanks very much Brad! :)
I think that it is great. Very unique.
Very cool, Neil. You are a very patient man indeed.
Pretty good? Looks fantastic! I loved it, such patience! But the part with the glue mud was not that tasty for me at least xD Not sure I would enjoy being with my hands in such a mess. I know my project is called get hands dirty but I kinda like to have my hands clean but thoughtful :D
Thanks very much Cris! I really thought you of all people wouldn't mind getting their hands dirty! ;) Just think of the fun peeling of dried glue for the next few hours, very satisfying! :)
Pask Makes ohhh the peeling...😍 I might reconsider!! Ahah I probably would. It just depends on the materials. If it's something oily/greasy I wouldn't like at all.
Ughhhb titebond 2 is the best peeley glue there is.
@@GetHandsDirty you can just use latex gloves though
Glue is one of the reasons I wouldn't use bamboo for a cutting board, the amount of silica is another. It has made me think about all the disposable chopsticks that could be repurposed though.
Lovely idea and production !
I don't have feet on my boards, because I like to use both sides of the board.
I have finger grooves down the short edges.
Keep making stuff !
Stu
Brilliant idea and turned out amazing...
So much patience !!!!
Stunning look
You are very patient! And the result is original and fantastic! You're very creative.
LMMFBO dude you gotta have the patience of a Buddhist monk. I would have jumped head first into my wood chipper after 5 minutes of that. Great job, I love all types of wood working and now skews are on my list of future headaches. Thanks for the video and keep up the wood.
I can recommend the small translucent rubberlike dots that you use on doors and drawers to give them a slightly less noisy closing, as "feet" for cutting boards, sticks good to kitchen benches and is supercheap and easy to replace should it be necessary :)
Lol, awesome idea. We used to make bridges with skewers.
You will be amazed how much these little buggers can hold actually!
That's great. I did make a panel from skewers and hot glue that I showed some Tim ago on Instagram. I was going to keep adding to it and make a full cube but it never happened. I was going to attempt to drive one wheel of my truck up and onto it and see how strong they are. :)
So cool. Adding this to my list of things to make!
Hehe, nice one... You can use a little blob of hot glue for the legs. When it hardens, drill small hole and screw a 2-3mm screw. Or the one you have, just that it is smaller than the blob and the head can sink in. I use it on smaller boards without the screw, regardless of the boards been oiled with mineral oil. It holds enough. On big ones, i make bit biger blob of glue, screw it and dab a bit over the screw head hole.
What a cool end result! It reminds me of a cutting board that looks like a corkboard! I wouldn't have rounded off the edges so much, and I wouldn't have screwed in feet (as a serious cook, my dad made me a typical butcher pattern endgrain block, and he left it very square with barely broken edges and without feet since I would stand the board on its side in a rack to dry, he also routered in about a quarter inch deep finger slot on either side.
No feet kind of doubles the lifespan of the board, it lets you flip it as you need.
Still, I bet that thing is fun to cut on. Bamboo isn't quite as fast as hardwood, but it is 100% sustainable and still very good.
Very cool. Nice shot at the end. Looks good!
Oh dude. That's beautiful.
This is ludicrous and I love it.
Totally amazing concept for a chopping board. I’m impressed with your efforts on that!
Looks great 👍👍👍, don't beat yourself up about the mistakes, the rest of us viewers and you all gained new knowledge from watching you do it ☺️.
Thanks mate! :)
That my friend is a very unique cutting board. 2 my Knowledge no one else has one unless they copied yours. Great job.
Another amazing video and the chopping board looks quite original. I'm a huge fan of bamboo skewers and their multiple applications. Stir sticks are another great option. I have made a decent smartphone case out of them but instead of wood glue, I've used cyanoacrylate. Great project, simple and entertaining. Thank you for posting.
Glad you liked it! I use them in the workshop too and every time I use one, I think 'what could I make with these'! :)
High speed planer is so satisfying
That looks like a project for me to try over the winter. Thanks for all you do. gives me alot of great idea's.
Glad you like it! :)
I was honestly just thinking about doing this with small dowels. You just helped me think about some of the challenges I am going to face. I was planning to use several different sizes of dowels and wasn't sure how I was going to fill the gaps. Well looks like I will be using these bamboo skewers for my filler. I also thought of cutting some triangular strips to fill gaps also. Perhaps I will do both.
I like the "buzzing" sound of the vehicles passing by when you play back above normal speed. Sounds almost like a race track in front of your place. And the cutting board, way too cool for school.
The guillotine you used to cut the miters on the trim, when I was quite a bit younger, I worked at a picture framing shop where we used the same type machine to cut corners for picture frames. While cutting a very small frame, the right blade found my index finger and cut from the first knuckle into the nail about half way. I still have the scar to this day...
Wow! That sounds nasty Jeff! I always imagine what damage the guillotine could do, the blades are scary sharp. :)
very good use of time-lapse to make the video enjoyable.
there were a couple of times I thought you wood (lol) would toss it. But you persevered and finished. I have to say that I did not think it would turn out but you did and it looks fine.
Thanks Susan!😊
Great Job. I would be interested in seeing a video about that "guillotine" . I have never seen one used before.
Thanks Wesley! It pops up now and then in some of my videos. I used to do a lot of picture framing, that's what it's very good for. :)
Great Project, now I know what to do with all of the skewers I have in my cupboards!
Great job! Nothing better than a man with vision...
Hi Neil. You can get a range of sizes of those feet from Clark Rubber, if you have a store anywhere near.
Thanks Geoffrey - I'll check that out. :)
A+ for patience and perseverance :) And at the end it was a pretty nice project.
Hey friend. In the future when treating with mineral oil on an end grain board, you’ll find that if you soak it, coat by coat, from one side only with oil... eventually you will see the oil start to wick through to the other side. You can literally soak the entire board through and through which ensures that it is completely treated.
This is important because it allows you to soak your board in the sink when you’re washing it, and even run it through the dishwasher (on low heat). And of course, ensures proper microbial protection from bacteria and fungi.
Thanks for that Bryan, I'll remember that for next time! :)
Man that is an awesome cutting board! Great work mate.
man thats awesome Mr Neil never seen this done before you do have a great sense of creativity i ran across your youtube by accident and been watching you since really enjoy watching you hope you put more videos up
Now that is SO cool!!! Thanks, Pask!
Pretty sweet!
Impressive work very, very nice.👍🏻
Cool project. For the feet, why not use cork? You can slice an old wine cork and glue it on.
Beautiful result. Well done!
Beautiful board mate 👏👏👏
Thanks mate! :)
I think it turned out fantastic. Great job.
Fantastic project and it turned out great! It looks a little like one of the frames of beeswax you get from a hive.
That was something different. Very nice. Thanks for showing
Thank you! :)
What an awesome project.
😊 Wow!
Good vid, good idea!
Love the fact you brought to bare that you can make "really" strong cutting board out anything your imagination can come up with!
👍 Thank you!
The Patience!! That was awesome! And the board looked great!
WoW, looks amazing👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
You have the patience of a saint
Wow I really like how that turned out!!
The patience of a saint. Great video.
Looks great! Nice craftsmanship
You are really talented and super creative. That's why I watch and subscribed. Thanks, Pask.
I made one recently such a long and frustrating build. Looks great though love the look. I made it because of this video and fell in love with it. Just so darn frustrating, it was definitly a Darwin type of cutting board.
for the feet i recommend those stick on cabinet bumpers that help keep it from slamming shut
Such an great project. I'd be interested to hear down the track sometime if all of that glue in the voids between the skewers moves around a lot creating an uneven rough surface. It's easily sanded back of course, but I have had issues with raised glue lines between boards on dining tables when using Titebond II or III. 👍👍👍
Thanks mate! I know what you mean, will just have to wait and see. :)
Fantastic job, you have the patience of 100 men Ha Ha. Similar to those that make the segmented vases with 30,000 pieces 😭😭😭. Came together very well. 👍. Cheers, Sean
All those tiny bits of bamboo.... they would have had to have me committed to an insane asylum, I would have lost my mind. That project turned out incredible.
Thanks Greg! I actually quite enjoyed it! :)
Holy cow, that's beautiful