Butchers Block Kitchen Island.

[trigger_andy]

Thought I’d start a new thread on my Butcher Block Island build.

 

Loosely basing it on this design;

 

Port Royal Butchers Block Kitchen Island

WWW.CAPTAINS-CRAFTWORKS.CO.UK

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Port Royal butchers block kitchen island Not only very practical but this will make a statement in any kitchen. Hand crafted by our own skilled

 

Will not have two shelves, just one at the bottom.

 

 

Pleasantly surprised to find some 3 year seasoned oak that I’ll use for rails is at 15% mc.

 

 

 

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Got the Oak Slab back from the Joiners. Very happy with the results. Planned and sanded all for £80. 
 

Making good progress with the legs and rails. 16 mortise and tenons is slow and tedious work but also enjoyable if you break it down into shorter sessions. 

[Steve Bullman]

Amazing skill….yet you can’t work out how to navigate a website 😂

[trigger_andy]

1 hour ago, Steve Bullman said:

Amazing skill….yet you can’t work out how to navigate a website 😂

I can once you pointed out how to get away from the default Grannie view. 😁

[Steve Bullman]

1 hour ago, trigger_andy said:

I can once you pointed out how to get away from the default Grannie view. 😁

Actually the default is what you switched it back to, you just have changed that yourself somewhere along the way 😀

[trigger_andy]

1 hour ago, Steve Bullman said:

Actually the default is what you switched it back to, you just have changed that yourself somewhere along the way 😀

Hmmmmm, if you say so. 😝

[trigger_andy]

Slow boring progress but progress non the less. 

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Well, it was all going far to well. 🤣

 

Im sure one or two will revel in my misfortune but I’m happy to share my mistakes. 
 

Somehow I got my maths badly wrong and the frame was too wide. How that happened I still don’t know. Anyway, I was faced with the choice of saving the four mortise and tenons and adding a mini-scarf Joint or cutting the tenons off and adding dowels. I went with dowels to keep things simple and keep the aesthetics. 
 

At least cutting the tenons off gave me a chance to see how accurate they where. I’m quite happy with what I had to destroy 🤣

 

As I am with getting eight 1/2 inch dowels millimetre perfect on the fly.  

[trigger_andy]

Was told the side of the Butcher Block I chose not to use would have made a cracking resin project. Not for me but can see why they said so.

 

 

[Conor Wright]

I feel your pain, I recently built a timber frame greenhouse and made one of the uprights back to front, didn't realise until I was putting it together. Had to go back and mill a cant down to size, plane it, mark it up (correctly!). Put a whole day on the job.

On the bright side, you made your mathematical booboo on a little home project, not a gushing oil field!