I’m here to tell you that you’ll save a heckofalot more than an hour if you vcarve a solid block of wood instead of investing the time it takes to build a blank that is essentially a cross-hatched end grain cutting board. I just finished this project using the latter, and while (mostly) fun and skill-building, it was a very time-consuming challenge. As @Merick01 discusses in his video, you have to plan a way to keep all the laminations from sliding around during glue-up. And after you slice it and re-glue in the cross direction, it’s very challenging to get the perpendicular lines to line up. If I had it to do over, I think I’d do it as a vcarve. Nobody really sees the bottom anyways.
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