Something that everyone who does any kind of woodworking whatsoever has in common is they all have a pile of scrap wood left over from other projects that they worked on in the past. I am no exception to that rule. And sometimes you have to take a moment and look at that pile to see if there is anything in there that you just might be able to do something creative with.

In this case I found a number of hardwood strips that on their own are not of much use, but with liberal application of glue, and several clamps it’s easy to bring them all together. Well, maybe not easy, but definitely possible.

After the glue dried it was time to square things up a bit, and a bit of rough sanding, things are really starting to shape up. It’s also when the different type of wood really start to show themselves.

Then it was time to break out the probably my recently most used tool in my shop, my Ryobi cordless handheld edge router to add a nice chamfer all the way around the top and bottom of the design. After that it was time for some finish sanding and final smoothing.

Once the dust settled it was time to take a bath. A mineral oil bath that is. After several hours in the oil bath it was time to let the board rest a bit letting the excess oil drip back into the bath. After letting it sit overnight and a bit of buffing, it was pretty much done.

Except on the board I decided to add some non-skid feet on the bottom to finish things out. I like to use these feet on a number of things I have built in the past I like their how they look, and their functionality.