Butcher block island - Plank or Edge style?
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Comments (10)Francoise- Thanks for the link...very pretty :) Never_ending- Those butcher block counters (especially the first few pictures) are just beautiful! They look almost honey colored. Thanks for the link, too. Pinch_me- It's not turquoise, but it is a pretty blue. Blue and white are such a nice combination! My husband helped me 'dig out' the farm sink, we found when we inherited the place. Someone had tossed it out in the trash pile...can you believe that??? It's a little dusty, from being in storage...and it needs some reglazing, but I hope it has great potential :) Here's a similar sink, I saw on Ebay...and they want $900. I don't know if that's realistic, or not. And here's our sink....See MoreButcher block countertops from Perfect Plank - finger joinery?
Comments (11)Thx. I think Walnut (especially if using the kind that is more mixed in heartwood / sapwood) will be busier than other species, and then if they are finger joining boards together you'll get even more variegation. I think I might like the busier look you can get inherently with Walnut, I'm not sure I like the additional busier look you get if they are joining shorter pieces together to get planks. It almost looks to me like Perfect Plank is cobbling together longer pieces from scraps before doing glue-up exposing the edge grain where the finger joints are visible -- and the end result is a matter of preference. To be clear, I honestly don't know what I prefer. Perfect Plank's seems to be quite a bit cheaper than others, so that can't be a coincidence? Hardwood Lumber out of... TX or Ohio? I've also got quotes going w/ HL (out of Ohio). Impressed by their responsiveness so far....See MoreJoing butcher block counter slabs to make wide island
Comments (19)I have teak countertops in my kitchen. Done out of 8/4 planks, edge glued. I used biscuits and West System epoxy. I wiped the plank edges down with acetone just prior to assembly. The run of countertop as a whole is 30" deep by roughly 18' long, it's two separate pieces that overlap on the ends, one about 12' long, the other about 6' long. The overlap is because one countertop is a couple inches lower than the other one. I have an under mount kitchen sink, so the end grain of the planks is exposed to water at the sink. Zero damage. Been in for almost 20 years. No warping, lifting, curling, no separation at all on the glue lines. Finished with mineral oil. The oil holds up well, I try to renew the oil once or maybe twice a year, though I have gone several years without renewing it. I have another teak end-grain butcher block cutting surface as a kitchen island end cap. Roughly 4' square with one corner clipped on a 45, and 5" or so thick. The individual blocks are about 3-1/2" by 2" and assembled in a running bond pattern. Same assembly; I wiped the blocks down with acetone, then epoxied. No biscuits on that one. We do cut on it some, not a lot, but the cutting surface has held up perfectly. On the side or edge of the block, there's one break on a glue line, where the grain orientation of the two blocks don't remotely match up due to one of the blocks having wild running grain. The break isn't noticeable to the eye, but you can feel it when you run your fingertip along the edge. There's maybe a 1/32" lippage at that joint. Just enough to catch a fingernail on if you run it along the side of the slab. I've never bothered to sand it flush. Great material for a countertop. Been used and abused in a heavily used kitchen, and they still look pretty darn bueno....See MoreCraft Art Closed - Butcher Block Island
Comments (15)@GreenDesigns Could be with Grothouse, but last I checked about a month ago, they still advertised for business on their website directly to consumers. You'll generally find a bit lower pricing ordering from a local butcherblock company due partly to shipping fees....See More- 12 years ago
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