I had a buddy who was going to toss some old chunks of wood from his garage since they were too rough to use and had termite holes in them. I took them off his hands, cut out the real bad spots and decided to try and make an end grain cutting board out of the good pieces. I went with a brick and mortar pattern and used some maple as the mortar sections. I also built a router sled to flatten out the high spots after the glue up. Finished it in mineral oil.
I had a buddy who was going to toss some old chunks of wood from his garage since they were too rough to use and had termite holes in them. I took them off his hands, cut out the real bad spots and decided to try and make an end grain cutting board out of the good pieces. I went with a brick and mortar pattern and used some maple as the mortar sections. I also built a router sled to flatten out the high spots after the glue up. Finished it in mineral oil.