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Crumb-catching oak cutting board (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by pageflight@lemmy.world to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca
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My family had one from decades ago that's falling apart, so I made a replacement. I went with toothpicks as little dowels to help join the crossbars to their supports, since the flat glue joint didn't hold for all of them.

toothpick dowels

I had this one on my list for a while, but also recently found a video from 3x3 Custom doing the same project.

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[-] IMALlama@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

TIL these are a thing. Nice work! Have a picture of the box it sits in without the insert in?

[-] pageflight@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks! I didn't get a great picture of that before leaving it with my mom, but it's in the background here. Just made slots (dados?) for 1/8" plywood for the back.

clamped box and insert

[-] IMALlama@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the photo! I now realize that the top sits on the pieces that run perpendicular to them and it all comes out as one piece. For some reason I was thinking that they fit onto a lip or something on the box side.

Clearly, I've never seen this style cutting board before lol.

[-] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago

My life has changed. Transformed. I can now go forth and multiply,

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Bring toothpicks

[-] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

Looks great! Really nailed, err, tooth picked it.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

Damn, that's really clever, I've never seen anything like that but it's a brilliant idea

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Ah specifically for bread. Interesting idea. I might give that a try.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Question: did you build the grate to be removable or is it fixed in place?

[-] pageflight@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

It lifts out so you can easily empty the crumbs.

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