This cutting board was created with some exotic woods about 6 years ago and found in an attic.

At the time there were no handles or blood grooves cut into the board.

It found its way to my desk after handles were added with a request to add a juice channel for meat cutting.

It was decided to add the channel on one side only, leaving the opposite side for vegetable cutting use.

CHOBS (Chop On Both Sides) feet expand to fit onto almost any thickness of cutting board.

So as not to leave a thin wall between the inside edge of the handle and the blood groove runner, yet leave a pleasing even aesthetic look to the surface while maximizing the cutting area, I decided to measure in 1-38 for the runner wall edge, leaving about the same 58 wall between the handle and runner.

I used a Whiteside 1406B B4 Bearing Round Nose Router Bit with Bearing Guide 38 R x 34 D x 716 CL x 14, Woodcraft Item 24D86 with a DeWalt Variable Speed Compact Router with LEDs and Plunge Base, 1.25HP, Model DWP611PK, Woodcraft Item 848065.

I chose the latter, but with more of a frame thought process.

After cutting my 4-piece frame 1-38 wide from a 2 x 4 on the tablesaw, I then cut the lengths to an appropriate size to allow the router to seamlessly flow around the cutting board.

Sitting the cutting board on each of its sides while placing one single-pieced frame jig to the board at a time, made sure that the single sticks ran parallel to the outside of the cutting board.

I then added and taped 3 additional boards to the center, cut from the same 2 x 4 for router leverage while cutting around the interior of the frame pattern.

Placing the entire assembly onto a rubber bench top mat made sure the board would not slide or slip around during the routing procedure.

In this case it was 18 depth cut, followed by a secondary 116 cleanup cut using the Whiteside 1406B B4 Bearing Round Nose Router Bit with Bearing Guide 38 R x 34 D x 716 CL x 14, Woodcraft Item 24D86.

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