A simple-to-make chopping board from scrap kitchen counter board (a la IKEA) in the shape of a Fender Stratocaster guitar. Next time you have a dinner party for your muso friends, amaze and confuse them by serving cheese on this retro-shaped chopping board.
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Materials:
* Kitchen Counter board, like oak, maple, ash, about 35mm thick. Mine is a leftover from a kitchen refurb project. Or just go to IKEA and buy a section of kitchen counter. Do not use chip-board kitchen counter!
* Sandpaper
* Tung oil, Counter top oil or Danish oil (not so good as it is not food-quality)
* Liquid paraffin (and old-fashioned medication for rot gut)
Tools:
* Fender Guitar or other guitar with well-known shape, e.g. Les Paul, Telecaster (this is for tracing the shape only - your guitar will remain intact for this Instructable!)
* Band saw or jigsaw. Recommend a band saw, but I managed OK with a jigsaw
* Router with a 10mm-radius roundover bit
* Belt sander, drum sander, orbital sander, linisher, or all of them
* Various grades of sand paper
* Drill and 32mm spade bit for an optional hole
* Pencil
* Kitchen Counter board, like oak, maple, ash, about 35mm thick. Mine is a leftover from a kitchen refurb project. Or just go to IKEA and buy a section of kitchen counter. Do not use chip-board kitchen counter!
* Sandpaper
* Tung oil, Counter top oil or Danish oil (not so good as it is not food-quality)
* Liquid paraffin (and old-fashioned medication for rot gut)
Tools:
* Fender Guitar or other guitar with well-known shape, e.g. Les Paul, Telecaster (this is for tracing the shape only - your guitar will remain intact for this Instructable!)
* Band saw or jigsaw. Recommend a band saw, but I managed OK with a jigsaw
* Router with a 10mm-radius roundover bit
* Belt sander, drum sander, orbital sander, linisher, or all of them
* Various grades of sand paper
* Drill and 32mm spade bit for an optional hole
* Pencil
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Great to see photos of other folks' work.
Came out pretty good :)
Sorry bout the photo being rotated.
I would recomend to anyone who would like to build this cuting board to use beech or maple (both available at ikea) as they are designated as "food safe" woods.
As long as you wash your board and, periodically give it a bleach and water wipe down, it's fine. Another poster put a link into the Food Science research at UC Davis. I have used oak butcher blocks and cutting boards for years.
The liquid paraffin (not to be confused with plain paraffin / kerosene) is used in cosmetics and old-fashioned gut remedies, and seals the pores (both end-grain and side-on) very nicely. Ikea sells this stuff in 250ml bottles - under some weird scandinavian-sounding product name, of course :-)
http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/docliver/Research/cuttingboard.htm
You can skip to the last paragraph, but it is a very interesting read concluding that wood is safer than plastic cutting boards and that plastic should be considered a health hazard. And if it fits, wet your wooden board and microwave it for about 45 to 60 seconds.... watch out that you don't burn it. It will come out germ free and kinda warm.. LOL
another tip is to use end grain or edge grain for you cutting boards that see more knife action.
all in all i dig the ible great job!
Would you have a link to these templates by any chance? Would be greatly appreciated!
Other than that you could do a google search for your preferred guitar and the word template..... stratocaster template, or "gibson les paul template", etc.