I made this as a gift, a 3D cuttingboard.

To make it you cut alternating colors of wood strips in gradual thicknesses (walnut and maple) and glue them up, thin in the middle, increase thickness going outward.

Then once the glue dries you run the glued up project through the planer to smooth out the faces for later glue up.
After that you cut horizontal strips in equal thickness that will be the thickness of your end state cutting board.

Then you flip the strips to alternate the color pattern. Don’t glue these up yet, you’ll need to work with them.

I skipped taking pictures of the next (important) step. You need to cut strips of these sections in the same gradual thickness steps you did before, and flip them to alternate the colors. So basically you cut whatever you can of the middle strip (3mm, 5mm, 8mm etc.) to minimize waste and so on. Your cuttingboard will shrink because of this so it’s best to make it longer in the beginning than what you want to end up with.

Another smartphone holder turned on the lathe, walnut with a thin maple lamination.

I wasn’t sure this would be saved, as I was learning not to use a spindle roughing gouge and to use a bowl gouge it exploded and his the back wall.

I wanted to take a better picture of my lathe. General 260, with fill block and 4″ risers. It also has a 60″ extension.

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So that’s what loud crack was last night. Ah sheit.

Someone left a burner on the stove. RIP cutting board.

We received cellphones at work to replace out desk phones and landlines in an effort to save the country money so I have this little thing laying flat on my desk all day. I decided to take some scrap material and make a stand for it.

Here’s a photo now in February of how much my walnut kitchen table has shrunk within the floating breadboard ends. Good thing they’re able to move around or the ends would have cracked the joint.
I expect in the summer they will either come back or even expand past the end caps.

I finished two shop mallets for chisels, joinery and for using workbench holdfasts, one large and one smaller.
Material used was maple with walnut accents. The mortise in the head is angled to match the tapered handle so it can slip out backwards but will tighten when swung.