by hupka | Feb 4, 2020 | Bloodwood, Cherry, Cutting Boards, Face grain, Information, Maple, Purple Heart, Walnut
Building cutting boards is sort of like taking our woodshop back to its roots. When we first started out as a company we sold more cutting boards than anything else. Building new inventory is still one of those calming activities that we enjoy a few times a year....
by hupka | May 9, 2019 | Bloodwood, Cherry, Slab
A little throw back Thursday action for me today. This is the first butterfly key I ever attempted. You might think I was smart and did a few test keys before cutting into my cherry slab. You might think that, but you’d be wrong. I just randomly cut a key on the...
by hupka | Feb 21, 2019 | Bloodwood, Cutting Boards
Custom cutting boards are a common requests from our customers. Ok that was too much alliteration. Sorry about that. But it is a true statement. We often get asked to create something specific like the board pictured here. The customer wanted exotic bloodwood on the...
by hupka | Mar 22, 2017 | Bloodwood, Cutting Boards, End grain, Red Oak
The shop is in full swing while we are getting ready for this year’s craft shows. This beautiful red oak and bloodwood glue up will be an end grain cutting block when its all finished. The offset boards will allow for patterns to emerge once it cut and...
by hupka | Sep 8, 2016 | Bloodwood, Cutting Boards, Maple
Shown here is a simple but beautiful glue up made from local hard maple and strips of imported bloodwood. The maple was ripped and put back together after flipping the pieces so the grain is no longer matched up. Even though it was glued back together next to another...
by hupka | Aug 30, 2016 | Bloodwood, Cheese Board, Cutting Boards, End grain, Information, Purple Heart
Fresh batch of 16 more cutting boards, trivets and cheese boards under clamps and ready to be surfaced and shaped. We are incorporating more of the purple heart and bloodwood that we posted about earlier this week as well as some beautiful cherry we received from DRB...
