How To Make A Cutting Board From Old Gym Flooring

Use the 5 8 inch drill bit and drill a hole through the wood plank at the mark.

How to make a cutting board from old gym flooring.

In this video i will show you how to make a cutting board out of recycled hardwood flooring. Rub entire cutting board with several coats of a food safe finish like mineral oil walnut oil or beeswax allowing oil to fully absorb into the wood. I suggest you keep a number of spare boards in case the worst should happen and you need to make a repair. Use the scrap material from the last step to set up the cutter.

Measure and mark 1 1 2 inches from each side of one of the corners making a plus sign. Hardwood flooring is a beautiful addition to any home and if you re interested fred has an excellent guide for installing hardwood flooring available at that link. After you finish the install you can return any unopened boxes to the distributor. That is if you don t count the time.

Each piece of flooring must be ripped twice. Run the lumber through the table saw for the final width of the hardwood floors. Great woodworking projects in your workshop new vlog every frid. Rip the flooring pieces.

This step is optional but it will make it easier to grip and hang your cutting board. Use feather boards and hold down rollers to get a true straight cut on the lumber. We get the stopwatch out for this build to show how quickly you can make one of these cutting boards in about 20 minutes. Repeat sanding process with 120 grit then 220 grit sandpaper.

It s easiest to get started with this project if the flooring pieces are first cut into roughly 2 foot long sections so long as the rough cut width is wider than your desired width for the finished cutting board. Mill your own flooring show. Run all of the flooring cutting the opposite side and end.