DIY Chopping Board Set With Spaghetti Measure
How to make your own easy DIY chopping board set using affordable pine and basic power tools. It can be designed in any shape you wish to compliment your kitchen and the handle also acts as a useful spaghetti measure.
Servings: 1 chopping board set
Equipment
- Pencil
- Tape measure
- Clamps
- jigsaw
- Sander (or sanding block)
- Sand paper
- Lint free cloth
- Flatwood drill bits in: 20mm, 28mm, 35mm and 38mm
- Router
- Rounding router bit
- Paint brush
Ingredients
- Timberboard wood (or lots of off cuts glued together)
- Cardboard to draw and cut a template
- Food grade oil
Instructions
- Cut your wood as per the the cutting list above.
- Then hold a mug in each corner and then draw around it to create a curve and remove with a jigsaw and sand all the corners and edges.
- Now mark a half way line between each one, lengthways and a 2 inch line along the top.
- Starting from the small board, use the smallest flatwood drill bit and so forth. Lay it along the top pencil line and lift, then pierce a hole on the other half way pencil line.
- Then clamp your wood on off cuts while on a work surface and carefully drill your hole. Note, half way through when the sharp end pierced through, I’d flip it upside down and drill from the opposite side. This was to minimise tear out.
- Next, using an 18mm off cut of dowel or similar, wrap with sand paper and twist in the spaghetti measure holes until any rough bits are gone.
- Now clamp your boards to a half of a worktop and router the edges and holes with a rounding router bit. Flip over and do the other side.
- Then sand out your pencil lines, ensure everywhere else is smooth the hoover all the dust off your pieces.
- Finally, apply your food grade Worktop Oil with a clean paint brush. Leave on for 20 minutes before removing the excess with a lint free cloth. For more coats, repeat every hour. It is useable as a work surface in 24 hours,