I hope to go to my favorite wood store tomorrow and pick up a bunch of shorts to make my table top. Your mom will be so pleased with it. How many board feet did you need to buy? I turned the boards to the side I wanted to glue and started laying it on. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. I see that you prefer the knotty alder over the mapple from your post. We tied the entire living area together with gold hinges, knobs, and curtain rods. Guess what the butcher block conditioner is made of? All strips were done strictly using a table saw. 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This significantly cuts down on the hard dried glue that sits on the top to be removed later. I worry a tiny bit about not biscuiting or using a pocket hole join, but so far after 2 years, it’s just plain fine. Images may not be printed, or used in a print publication without my expressed consent. Take any number of input lists, and create a new list containing the items of the input lists. one of the better looking butcher block i have seen. I just made sure to take extra care to put more of the conditioner in those little gaps. When I got home, I cut all of my long sticks into smaller pieces. The Siege of Lilybaeum lasted from 250 to 241 BC, as the Roman army laid siege to the Carthaginian-held Sicilian city of Lilybaeum (modern Marsala; reconstruction pictured) during the First Punic War.Lilybaeum was well-fortified and situated on the coast, where it could be supplied and reinforced by sea. Using knotty alder meant I had a bit more waste because there were a few larger knots. We did a total of two coats in the main living area with the Zinsser primer and allowed it to dry before applying two layers of the HGTV paint. It’s been a few years, so it’s hard to remember how much I used. I guess there is a sense of pride doing it yourself just dont feel like buying clamps. When you were gluing the boards two at a time did you glue them all before clamping?Or did you have to clamp and adjust as you added more. Finally, we took the plunge and decided to tackle the ultimate RV interior makeover. Do you think DIY butcherblock will stand up to being next to the stove? Keep doing fantastic DIY creation. What I meant in my post is that I didn’t buy a countertop for it. Not only is their DIY micro mesh widely available, it also has the smallest mesh openings of all the companies we reviewed. Wish I had found your article before. Thank you for your comment. You were extremely smart taking it to a local woodworker shop to sand smith and even and to cut to size. Well you can make it into a single countertop, but you would need to seam it just like the butcher block is made above into one wide top, and then finished however you wanted it. JUST CURIOUS IF AT SOME STAGE IN THE PROCESS CAN YOU CUT A HOLE FOR A SINK! Please click to read my full disclosure policy. It was getting dark and I wanted to get dinner started before my husband came back from soccer practice with the boys. I hope this one is still as gorgeous as the day you finished it! This article discusses such notable variants of SARS-CoV-2, and also discusses notable mutations found in some, or all, of these variants.. Seriously considering this. For the wall behind the original black headboard, we added some contrast with a black brick-style Tic Tac Paper from Amazon, and to keep the paper from falling down, we used a 3M spray adhesive. Hey, I’m thinking of doing a maple top but with 2×6. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20274961/#/60274964. Great tutorial. If it makes you feel better, I did build the entire kitchen island it went on all by myself. We started 2 years ago. I used pocket holes to secure the top to the base. Explore content previously published in Trailer Life Magazine and Motor Home Magazine. The glue is between the boards so it’s safe. There is one called the HAmmarp that is indeed just solid wood so it is more expensive than the particle board versions. The butcher block conditioner is easy to apply, my mom just isn’t the best about keeping up with it regularly, so it feels a little dry to the touch after a while:). It’s on my long list of projects;). A cabinetmaker and could not have done a better job myself. This is the first pieces I’ve made for the off grid farm house I hope to build in a year or two and a good way to gain skills for the major project. Did you glue the bottom of the top to the cabinet or did you drill, screw down and then fill in the holes? Thanks. I love the knots, too. Here’s a post on products you can use to seal the countertops. I love a variety of woods and the price per pound can’t be beat plus who doesn’t like digging around in thousands of pieces of beautiful hardwood. I’m thinking those would be fun Christmas presents. My wood was planed at 1 3/4″ thickness and I had it ripped into 1 1/2″ sticks. Wow! Does your mom cut on it and use it like a normal cutting board? Thanks for sharing. Yeah, $200 for that size is a great deal. Squeezing a bead of glue and then using a foam roller to spread it out works really well. I had no clue! I chose my boards and had another employee plane and rip the boards down into manageable sticks for me. I am considering doing ‘butcher block style’ (don’t want the wood police to mock me] counter-top. That is a bad idea. You can absolutely use it instead. Just out of curiousoty, what was the bill after materials and final finishing? If it doesn’t, please feel free to ask more questions! I love butcher blocks, and I agree they are really expensive. When I say buy one, I mean my mom. How do you make the end pieces tight that are opposite the direction of the clamps? If you have it butting direction up to the granite, it may look a little off. I turned the wood pieces on their sides so my slats were 1 1/2″ thick and 1 3/4″ wide. Thanks so much! As long as you glue everything well, you shouldn’t have an issue with movement:). Otherwise you’ll be using a belt sander forever! While we love our Heartland’s floorplan, the interior was not our style, with every single shade of brown, from the walls down to the flooring. I added corbels to this one to offer more support for people leaning. Are Titebond Glues safe to use? I can’t speak for all wood shops, but I would think they would have the ability to do so. Always liked purple heart, toying with the idea of using some 1/8″ strips at random with maple just to add a bit of color and contrast. Yes, I try to do as much as possible and I have many more tools now than I did when I built this, which would make it easier for me to do even more of it on my own. You’ll have waste, but you can always use it for something else like a cheeseboard:). Your email address will not be published. A mixture of woods is always a great way to change things up and add some interest to the finished top. I still don’t have a drum sander, but one day… . 1-800-PetSupplies; 100th Bomb Group Restaurant; 12 Hours Massage ; 1424 Bistro; 15 Point Road; 16 Handles; 1800Baskets; 1800Flowers; 23rd Street Brewery Do you have any recommendations on where to look to find a nice cabinet to rest this butcher block on? I don’t know why anyone with any ambition towards DIY wouldn’t make their own counter. It’s been 3 years and it’s holding up great! Moving on to the front master bedroom, we figured if anything went wrong, at least it wouldn’t be the first thing we’d see when walking inside the RV. Mine is maple, made of odd, mostly 2″ or so sticks, anywhere from 8 to 12′ long. Then, we installed more faux shiplap on the living room slideout. If you have absolutely no intention of cutting on them, then you’re perfectly fine using the 2×6 boards rather than edge or end grain. The best part is that it was half the price! If I were to change one thing, I would probably put a more permanent coating on it, but that would be it. We did RV makeover projects are a wonderful learning opportunity for kids of all ages. When sticking the pieces of wood together, use a mallet to pound any shorter pieces into a tight joint. He never mentioned it, but there was a rebate for the band, and the ends of the band just overlapped each other, with a deeper rebate, and a swan neck at that point. I found it extremely helpful! It would definitely be easier to cut out the opening for the range than to build it with that opening. If you have that much of an overhang, it couldn’t hurt to add a little extra support with simple corbels. The daughter of U.S. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, she served as the executive director of the Delaware Center for Justice from 2014 to 2019. She purchased all of the materials. Hi Joann, I only used the butcher block conditioner. Bette @ somerset lane recently posted…FEATURE FRIDAY: Life in Velvet. My husband and I are moving into a new house and the current counter is hunter green tile with grout in between. I think it’s one of the easiest projects I’ve undertaken. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has many variants; some are or have been believed to be of particular importance. 9/16″ real wood. We are starting on our butcher block countertops and we aren’t sure how long (and short) our boards should be. Waiting for the glue to dry was the longest part. Thank you! I’ve thought about doing the same in my laundry room. We chose a light-gray luxury vinyl tile for its durability and because it’s waterproof. I also do not have a drum sander and did not want to spend hours with a belt sander trying to make it all perfectly smooth and uniform, only to be unsatisfied with the result. http://blog.hgtvremodels.com/2012/11/06/non-toxic-butcherblock-countertop-sealer-for-a-food-safe-kitchen/, “or if you are like me and you sometimes feel like it’s not DIY unless EVERYTHING is done yourself”, Umm… You didn’t do everything by yourself, the wood shop did all the hard work for you…. They only offer it in the standard depth 25″ so you wouldn’t be able to make such a big island.