03 Sep. 1978
Cutting board end grain vs edge grain,plans for bass guitar speaker cabinet,norwegian wood carving sale - Plans Download
Half a year back, I decided to make the switch from a plastic cutting board to a wooden one.
The image above shows the areas of wood that are used to make the two types of common cutting boards. Edge Grain – The cutting surface is made from parallel fused pieces of wood from the edge. In the visualization above,knife edge sinks into the fibers, so some of the shock is absorbed.
Armed with a bit more knowledge the second time around, I still couldn’t decide on whether I wanted to purchase an edge grain or an end grain cutting board. The durability of the wood and bamboo models mostly depended on how the boards were constructed: end-grain or edge-grain. In the end, I chose a maple edge grain cutting board, but the state of the board upon arrival was rather poor.
The former is made by gluing together blocks of wood or bamboo with the grain running perpendicular to the surface of the board, the latter by gluing together longer strips with the grain running parallel to the surface. 
End-grain models showed fewer scars than the edge-grain boards because their wood fibers faced the surface, and as a result, the knife marks actually closed up within minutes.
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