Piece / projectWalnut, framed in purpleheart
The first end-grain cutting board identified in the archive: a walnut center and purpleheart border.
Boards & crafted goods • Series
Mixed-color end-grain work from the August 2020 board-making period.
Individual blocks create changes in color and grain across the face. The close-up makes the arrangement visible in a way that the earlier group photograph did not.
The August photos show clamped glue-ups and a finished board in use. I cannot match every photo to a separate finished board with confidence, so I am keeping them together as one group.
I used mixed woods and end-grain glue-ups to build these changing block patterns. The work moved through clamped assemblies, surface cleanup, and finished boards, although the surviving photos do not let me match every stage to a separate final piece. I kept them together as one group for that reason. The close views still show what matters: how the grain direction, color, and block placement changed across the face.
Project work: Michael Pytlowany. Original archive photograph.
Mike's Functional Artistry archive
2020-08-17